The Broadway musical “Wicked” doesn’t just set records in big cities like London’s West End, but even in smaller cities throughout the United States. Take the week box office record that was just made in the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines, a record breaking set that even topped The Lion King of 2006. The show closed out their four week run on Sunday with total attendance of 84,000 and sold out performances everywhere, overall attendance topping out at 97 percent capacity. The best sales week for the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines and Wicked in general was its last where sales topped at $1.5 million, more than $300,000 than the best week on The Lion King run. That means that the total number of participants included more than $5.7 million for its gross; while The Lion King topped out at $6.6 million, it ran for two more weeks.

The biggest impact the show had on the area was its community impact, as $17.3 million were pumped into the area via restaurants and more. “Restaurants downtown have been really happy,” said Convention and Visitors Bureau chief Greg Edwards. Hotels in the area also got a bump, among other areas of tourism.

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San Francisco and New York aren’t the only cities celebrating a Wicked Halloween this year – recently added to the fun is the musical Wicked at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, celebrating its forth annual Wicked Day in the Lawrence Hall at the Royal Horticultural Halls on Sunday, November 1st beginning at noon and ending around 6pm. Members of the Wicked cast will be performing and hosting a bunch of Wicked/ Halloween tehmed free events like competitions, performances, face painting, fancy dressing, workshops and a plethora of other activities that is fun for the whole family.

The day before, also known as Halloween, Wicked and Halloween themed events will be happening at the Westfield London from noon until about 5pm with similar activities that are fun for kids to parents – like face painting, competitions, performances by some of the Wicked cast, prizes for best Halloween costumes, and a Wicked Cackle Halloween World Record attempt, led by the members of the cast. Proceeds will benefit the project between Wicked and Magic 105.3’s charity Cash for Kids to built a community garden in the area’s of London that need it the most. Visit the Wicked website and learn more at www.WickedDay.co.uk.

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