Welcome to my Wicked fan site. Wicked is about a girl named Elphaba who is born green, and another girl named G(a)linda who is born blonde, beautiful, and popular. The story goes through these two unlikely friends lives to see how they end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.
Wicked is currently playing in New York at the Gershwin Theater, Chicago at the Ford Center for Peforming Arts/ Oriental Theater, London at the Apollo-Victoria Theatre, Los Angeles at the Pantages Theatre, Tokyo at the Dentsu Shiki Theatre, Universal Studios: Japan, and in Boston at the Opera House.
If you have any questions or comments about the site, or if you have fan pictures, stories, reviews, or anything else having to do with Wicked you can email me at zachtommy17@sbcglobal.net.
Thank you for visiting my site. Look around, and enjoy!
WICKED in LA TIP: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 AT 11:45 A.M.
"WICKED" STAR CAROL KANE HELPS BEWITCH UNIVERSAL STUDIOS CROWD AS "WICKED WEDNESDAYS" SUMMER SERIES GETS GREEN LIGHT
SERIES FEATURES PERFORMANCES AND AUTOGRAPH SESSIONS WITH SHOW'S STARS, CONTINUES JULY 11 AND 25 AT UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD, THE ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL OF L.A.
WHO: Carol Kane (Madame Morrible,) Academy Award(r) nominee
and Emmy(r)-winning actor and star of "Wicked" joined by co-stars Julie
Reiber (Elphaba) and Melissa Fahn (Glinda) and hundreds of "Wicked"
fans.
WHAT: The debut of "Wicked Wednesday," Universal Studios Hollywood's
new summer series offering fans of the smash musical blockbuster,
"Wicked," an opportunity to enjoy special performances, meet the stars
and collect autographs from the cast of the L.A. production.
"Wicked Wednesdays" kicks off June 27
with a special appearance by Carol Kane introducing a "Witches of
Oz"-themed performance by Julie Reiber (Elphaba) and Melissa Fahn
(Glinda) performing such memorable songs as, The Wizard and I, Popular
and For Good.
"Wicked Wednesday" continues on July 11,
featuring a performance by cast member, Kristoffer Cusick (Fiyero) and
on Wednesday, July 25, for an "Ozians" of "Wicked" ensemble performance.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Press call time: 11:45 a.m.
Interviews with Carol Kane and cast: 12-12:30 p.m.
Performance with Carol Kane begins promptly at: 12:30pm
WHERE: Universal Studios Hollywood's "Jurassic Park-The-Ride" attraction
(100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608)
PRESS Enter Universal Studios Blvd. off the 101 Freeway or Universal
PARKING: Hollywood Drive off Lankershim Blvd.-follow directional press-parking signs. Press check in at right of theme park main entrance.
Wicked Opens in Japan!
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Wicked to Fly into Australia for July '08 Opening
Melbourne, Australia will be home to a new production of the smash musical Wicked, which will open at Melbourne's Regent Theatre in July 2008.
This will be the fourth international production of Wicked. A London production opened in September 2006 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, and Wicked is scheduled to begin performances in June in Tokyo, Japan and in November in Stuttgart, Germany. These productions will join the four current North American companies of Wicked: in New York City on Broadway at the Gershwin Theater, in Chicago at the Ford Center for Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre, in Los Angeles at the Pantages Theatre, and on National Tour.
Producer David Stone announced, "We're delighted that Melbourne will be the home for the fourth international production of Wicked. We're looking forward to working with John Frost and the Gordon/Frost Organization and know that Australian audiences will be just as enchanted by Wicked as the audiences are in America and England."
Casting details for the Melbourne company will be announced at a later date.
Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, the show has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. It is directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging by Wayne Cilento. Wicked is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.
Winner of 15 major awards including the Grammy Award and three Tony Awards, Wicked "is the untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Wicked tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch," as described in press notes.
Wicked features set design by Tony Award winner Eugene Lee, costume design by Tony Award winner Susan Hilferty, lighting design by Kenneth Posner and sound design by Tony Meola. The orchestrations are by William David Brohn, with dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott.
The Grammy Award-winning original cast recording is available on Decca Broadway.
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Julia Murney, who played Elphaba in the national tour of Wicked, will join the Broadway company of the hit Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical Jan. 9, 2007.
That same day, the New York company will also welcome Kendra Kassebaum as Glinda and Sebastian Arcelus as Fiyero. Both Kassebaum and Arcelus appeared in the tour of Wicked as well.
The Broadway cast of Wicked currently features Ana Gasteyer (Elphaba), Kate Reinders (Glinda), David Garrison (the Wizard), Jayne Houdyshell (Madame Morrible), Derrick Williams (Fiyero), Jenna Leigh Green (Nessarose), Logan Lipton (Boq) and Steven Skybell (Dr. Dillamond).
Julia Murney made her Broadway debut last season in Lennon. She received a Drama Desk nomination for her work in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, and her other theatrical credits include Crimes of the Heart, Time and Again, A Class Act, Cloud 9, Snapshots, Mata Hari and the national tour of Wicked. Murney also portrayed Florence in the Chess benefit concert for The Actors' Fund of America and was part of the all-star Children of Eden concert as well.
Kendra Kassebaum, who created the role of Glinda in the national tour of Wicked, has been seen on Broadway in Rent and the Tony-winning revival of Assassins. She has toured in productions of A Chorus Line and Grease and has numerous regional theatre credits. Kassebaum also appeared on TV's long-running "Guiding Light."
Sebastian Arcelus played Jan in Broadway's Good Vibrations and Roger in Rent. His other theatrical credits include The Full Monty, Hamlet—A Rock Opera, Caligula, Aida, Floyd Collins and the world premiere of William Finn's Songs of Innocence and Experience.
With a score by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, Wicked began previews on Broadway Oct. 8, 2003, after a summer tryout at San Francisco's Curran Theatre.
Based on Gregory Maguire's novel, which turned every Oz myth inside out, Wicked explores the early life of the witches of Oz: Glinda and Elphaba. The two main characters meet at Shiz, a school where both hope to take up sorcery. Glinda is madly popular and Elphaba is, well, green. By a misunderstanding, they wind up roommates and, after an initial period of mutual loathing, begin to learn something about each other. Their life paths continue to intersect through a shared love, entry into the Emerald City and interaction with the Wizard himself. Eventually, their choices and convictions take them on widely different paths.
The Broadway company, directed by Joe Mantello, plays the Gershwin Theatre. Tickets are available by calling (212) 307-4100 or by visiting www.ticketmaster.com.
London 'Wicked' Royal Variety Performance
On Monday, December 4th, the cast of Wicked performed at the Royal Variety Performance, Coliseum in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, due to be televised by the BBC One on Tuesday 12 December 2006.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Gregory Maguire Wicked "tells the incredible story of an extraordinary friendship between two girls: the blond and popular Glinda and the misunderstood green girl, Elphaba, whose destiny is to become the Wicked Witch of the West," as press notes describe the show.
Idina Menze; will play her final performance as Elphaba on 30 December 2006. From Monday 1 January 2007, the role will be played by Kerry Ellis. The cast also includes: Helen Dallimore as Glinda, Adam Garcia as Fiyero, Mariam Margolyes as Madame Morrible, Nigel Planer as The Wizard, Martin Ball as Doctor Dillamond, James Gillanas Boq & Katie Rowley Jones as Nessarose.
Visit www.WickedTheMusical.co.uk for more information.
Prince Charles shaking hands with Idina Menzel and Helen Dallimore
from - www.broadwayworld.com
Wicked Original Cast Recording Goes Platinum
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The Grammy Award winning original cast recording of the hit Broadway musical Wicked has just been certified "Platinum" by the Recording Industry Association of America, for sales of more than one million copies. Produced by composer Stephen Schwartz for Decca Broadway, the album has been the fastest selling original cast recording in years, has regularly appeared on the list of Amazon's top-selling albums and is currently #1 on Billboard's Top Cast Album Chart, the position it occupied when the chart debuted in January 2006.
Since opening at the Gershwin Theatre on October 30, 2003, Wicked has regularly broken house records with box office receipts of more than $1.4 million per week. For the week ending November 24, 2006, the show broke the all-time Broadway record with a weekly box office take of more than $1.7 million.
Full-Length Wicked May Fly Into Japan in 2007
Variety reports that a full-scale production of the Broadway smash Wicked may soon be flying to Japan.
"We now have fairly definite plans with the Shiki Theatrical Company (Japanese tours of The Lion King and Mamma Mia!) to undertake a full Japanese language production in 2007," said Marc Platt, one of Wicked's producers.
The Japanese Wicked staging would be presented before audiences who might already have had exposure to the musical's first act. A 30-minute version is currently playing Osaka's Universal Studios theme park. With the aid of composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz and bookwriter Winnie Holzman, Wicked was cut down to focus on the troubled friendship between misunderstood Elphaba and popular Glinda; it ends with "Defying Gravity," the first-act finale.
The upcoming full-length production will also be performed all in Japanese; about 30% of the abbreviated theme park version is in English.
Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked is directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging by Wayne Cilento. It is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.
Wicked, the highest grossing show on Broadway and across the country, currently has three companies in North America: on Broadway; on a National Tour; and in a separate, open-ended engagement at Chicago's Ford Center for Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre. When the upcoming Los Angeles production begins in February, there will be four North American companies of Wicked running concurrently. A London production begins performances at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in September.
Winner of 15 major awards including the Grammy Award and three Tony Awards, the show "is the untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Wicked tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch," state press notes.
Wicked features set design by Tony Award winner Eugene Lee, costume design by Tony Award winner Susan Hilferty, lighting design by Kenneth Posner and sound design by Tony Meola. The orchestrations are by William David Brohn, with dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott.
Visit www.wickedthemusical.com for more on Wicked.
LA To Get Sit-Down Production
The producers of Wicked have announced that Los Angeles will be home to a new production the smash musical.
Wicked, which was developed, written and had its earliest readings and workshops in Los Angeles, will begin performances at the Pantages Theatre beginning February 9, 2007 (official press opening date will be announced).
The new production of Wicked will be mounted specifically for Southern California and will feature a new company with many principal roles being cast in Los Angeles. Casting details for the new Los Angeles company of Wicked will be announced at a later date.
Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, the show has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. It is directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging by Wayne Cilento. It is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.
Producer Marc Platt said, "The reception to Wicked in Los Angeles during its sold-out seven-week run in the summer of 2005 exceeded our wildest expectations. The enthusiasm generated by the audiences at the Pantages Theatre – just a few short miles away from my offices at Universal Studios where Wicked was created – was unlike the response in any other city that the show has played. It was during that run that we began to formulate the plan for a company of the show just for Los Angeles."
Wicked, the highest grossing show on Broadway and across the country, currently has three companies in North America: on Broadway; on a National Tour; and in a separate, open-ended engagement at Chicago's Ford Center for Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre. When the Los Angeles production begins in February, there will be four North American companies of Wicked running concurrently. A London production begins performances at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in September.
Platt calls the upcoming Los Angeles production, "a very exciting homecoming for Wicked." "Wicked began ten years ago when Platt was president of production at Universal Pictures. He had begun developing a film based on Gregory Maguire's novel, but after Schwartz and Holzman became involved, it was decided Wicked would fare better as a Broadway musical.
Winner of 15 major awards including the Grammy Award and three Tony Awards, the show "is the untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Wicked tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch," state press notes.
Wicked features set design by Tony Award winner Eugene Lee, costume design by Tony Award winner Susan Hilferty, lighting design by Kenneth Posner and sound design by Tony Meola. The orchestrations are by William David Brohn, with dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott.
Wicked will begin performances at the Pantages Theatre (6233 Hollywood Boulevard) beginning February 9, 2007 (official press opening date will be announced). The scale of ticket prices is $25 to $88. The performances schedule will be: Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8 PM; Saturdays at 2 PM; and Sundays at 1 PM and 6:30 PM. At present, tickets are only available to subscribers of Broadway/L.A. by calling 866-755-2929 or, for groups of fifteen (15) or more, by calling 866-755-3075 (or visit www.broadwayla.org).
