Natalie Daradich will float onto the Stranahan Theater stage as Glinda the Good when “Wicked” opens its three-week run March 31 in Toledo OH.

“It’s such a music theater gem to pop down in a bubble and it’s a great entrance to a show,” she said. “I really love singing the opening [‘No One Mourns the Wicked’]. I’m a soprano and that’s where I live; I love to sing all the high stuff.”

The musical has been defying gravity since opening in San Francisco and moving to Broadway in 2003. The Tony Award-winning show continues to set box office records, with eight productions of “Wicked” worldwide, including two North American tours and a New York production in the Gershwin Theatre.

“Everyone likes to say [‘Wicked’ is] a prequel to the movie, but it’s not; it’s sort of just looking at ‘The Wizard of Oz’ from another way,” the actress said.

Starring in “Wicked” with Daradich will be Marcie Dodd as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.

There are still some tickets left for the musical, which will be at Stranahan Theater from March 31 through April 18. Buy Wicked Toledo OH Tickets NOW!

Wicked is returnign to Ovens Auditorium, Charlotte, NC on May 19, Playing till June 13, 2010. People began lining up early Friday morning at the Blumenthal Performing Arts box office for tickets to performances of “Wicked.”

The hit Broadway musical, which sold out all its Charlotte performances last year, is returning for a four-week run May 19 to June 13 at Ovens Auditorium.

Tickets for this year’s performances went on sale at 7 a.m., with a three-hour box-office ticket sale planned. At 10 a.m. Tickets will be available online, Check here.

“Wicked” is based on a best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, and it is billed as the “untold story” of the witches of Oz. The play has won more than two dozen major awards, including three Tony Awards and one Grammy.

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