Wicked Broadway Musical grossed $1,810,911 and had an attendance rate of 99.3%, about 1.9% more than that of the previous week. The 32 shows on the boards grossed $24,719,511, improving around 7.26% from the previous week’s totals.

Below are the Top 14 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending April 21, 2013.

1. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $1,835,410
2. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $1,810,911
3. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,670,782
4. Lucky Guy – (BROADHURST) $1,412,001
5. Motown: The Musical – (LUNT-FONTANNE) $1,151,759
6. Matilda – (SHUBERT) $1,129,419
7. Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark – (FOXWOODS) $1,060,466
8. Kinky Boots – (AL HIRSCHFELD) $976,098
9. Cinderella – (BROADWAY) $1,007,275
10. The Phantom Of The Opera – (MAJESTIC) $952,478
11. Newsies – (NEDERLANDER) $910,812
12. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $879,720
13. Once – (JACOBS) $873,375
14. Mamma Mia! – (WINTER GARDEN) $833,047

{Via BroadwayWorld.com}

Wicked national tour currently stops at Kalamazoo MI for only 2-weeks from April 24 through May 5.

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Jennifer DiNoia plays Elphaba in Wicked

Wicked main cast Jennifer DiNoia, who plays Elphaba, talks about green makeup, vocal rest and being awkward – Here is the interview:

Jennifer DiNoia remembers the first time she heard “Defying Gravity.”

“I always thought of myself as a dancer who could sing. At that moment, I heard ‘Defying Gravity’ and I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, this is amazing. This role is the biggest, the best female role you could play,’” she said.

A decade later, DiNoia is portraying Elphaba all over the world, including when the tour stops at Kalamazoo’s Miller Auditorium from April 24 through May 5.

DiNoia is the one of several Elphabas to follow 2004 Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel’s portrayal. DiNoia said it’s a challenge to live up to Menzel.

“It gets a little difficult when people start writing things about you online, but I try to stay away from much of it as I can, because I don’t want to get into my head what people think. I want to stay true to who I am. Obviously, I’ve learned from other Elphabas, but I like to make it my own at the same time. I’m proud of that,” she said.

DiNoia has been with the production for seven years, she said. She’s played Elphaba in Broadway, Chicago, Australia and South Korea companies. This is her first turn playing Elphaba as the lead. This tour finds DiNoia paying especially close attention to her health, she said.

“I’m definitely super cautious about everything I do with my voice and everything. I’m drinking more tea and definitely trying to stay quiet when I’m not at the show, the vocal rest kind of thing. I’m trying to stay healthy and take my multi-vitamins,” she said.

Read the complete interview {via mLIVE.com}

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As a part of the Broadway San Jose 2013-2014 season, Wicked will play August 27 to September 14, 2014 at San Jose Center For The Performing Arts in San Jose, CA.

Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked imagines a pre-Dorothy backstory for the Wicked Witch of the West, Glinda the Good and several other characters familiar from L. Frank Baum’s original and the 1939 MGM film. 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 reMaykable odyssey, and how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.

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