Wicked is currently performing at the Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles CA. Los Angeles first encountered Wicked in 2005 when it broke box office records. It returned two years later for an extended run that lasted two years. Now Wicked is back, leaner but still a terrific crowd-pleaser. The cast is smaller as is the orchestra but that all goes to make the show seem even more intimate.

Wicked is the story of two witches, Elphaba, the unfortunate girl with the green skin, and the blonde and perfect Glinda. They grow up together and become rivals for the attention of the handsome Fiyero. They also eventually differ in their stands towards the Wizard’s regime and policy of taking speech away from animals. Elphaba sides with the animals and is called the Wicked Witch of the West while Glinda the Good becomes known as the Good Witch of the North.

If all this sounds familiar it is because Wicked is a parallel story to the famous L. Frank Baum story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Wicked, the book, concerned the Wicked Witch of the West. Wicked, the musical has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz with a book by Winnie Holzman. When the musical opened on Broadway it was drubbed by the New York Times and received decidedly mixed notices, but went on to get ten Tony nominations, winning three, six Drama Desk Awards, and the Grammy. It opened in 2003 and to this day remains the top grossing show on Broadway on a regular basis. The show has spawned numerous international productions and two national tours. It remains the 14th longest-running Broadway show in history.

The cast is the all-around best I have seen and I have seen the show twice before. Katie Rose Clarke has a blast with Glinda and squeezes every possible laugh as well as exploiting the poignant moments in the script. Mamie Parris is a feisty Elphaba. Boy, can these women sing!

Mark Jacoby is the Wizard and does more with the role. The same can be said of Liz McCartney as Madame Morrible. Kyle Dean Massey is a revelation as Fiyero. Who knew Fiyero could dance? Stephanie Brown is an exceptional Nessarose. And it is nice to see Los Angeles native Kevin McMahon as part of this talented cast.
{Via blogcritics.org}

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Wicked will be performing at Capitol Theatre – Utah from July 19, 2012 through August 26, 2012. Wicked tickets could benefit Salt Lake City students. Salt Lake City School District patrons can score a “wicked” deal this holiday season — tickets to one of Broadway’s hottest musicals and a donation to the district, all in one purchase.

Parents, students and anyone else interested in the smash musical “Wicked” — coming to Salt Lake City in July and August — will soon be able to purchase tickets to the show while simultaneously donating to the district’s education foundation.

The sale is expected to raise thousands for the district by selling 900 tickets, according to district spokesman Michael Williams. Previous sales for shows such as “Mary Poppins” and “The Lion King” have netted big bucks ­— about $50,000 over four years.

“For a while we turn our offices into a ticket master,” Williams joked.

The sale of traveling show tickets has been used to benefit Utah nonprofits for more than a decade, starting with the musical “Rent,” according to Elisabeth Nebeker of MagicSpace Entertainment, which books the Broadway Across America tours. Nonprofits buy tickets at a discounted group rate, then sell them at face value with revenues benefiting their organizations.

For “Wicked,” Salt Lake is joined by the Canyons School District, which joins the fundraiser for the first time. The Granite School District now is considering a fundraiser during another show run, Nebeker said.

With school budgets skinnier than ever, districts are turning to fundraisers such as the “Wicked” sale to raise additional dollars for programs beyond the core curriculum, Williams said. Many districts have started their own 501(c)3 foundations to help pay for programs taxpayer dollars will not fund.

The foundation uses the funds raised from touring shows to pay for arts and music programs in the district, Williams said. Schools apply for aid, which they can use, say, to build scenery and make costumes for a musical or secure stage rights.

Read the complete story {Via The Salt Lake Tribune}

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Wicked Broadway grossed $1,656,955 and had a 91.8% attendance rate, about 8% less than the previous Thanksgiving week. The 33 shows on the boards grossed $23,795,690, slipping around 16.7% from the previous week’s totals.

Below are the Top 13 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending December 04, 2011.

1. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $1,682,555
2. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $1,656,955
3. Hugh Jackman, Back On Broadway – (BROADHURST) $1,520,929
4. Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark – (FOXWOODS) $1,385,685
5. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,374,003
6. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $1,045,834
7. War Horse – (VIVIAN BEAUMONT) $958,523
8. How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying – (AL HIRSCHFELD) $902,752
9. On A Clear Day You Can See Forever – (ST. JAMES) $796,869
10. Sister Act – (BROADWAY) $787,283
11. Mary Poppins – (NEW AMSTERDAM) $784,417
12. Priscilla Queen Of The Desert – (PALACE) $740,283
13. Billy Elliot: The Musical – (IMPERIAL) $728,353

{Via BroadwayWorld.com}

Wicked will be visitng Sacramento California next year May. Wicked Sacramento Community Center Theater performances start on May 23, 2012 and continue through June 17, 2012.

Wicked Sacramento Tour Schedule:
Tuesdays through Saturdays – 8:00 p.m.
Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 p.m.
May 27, Sunday evening performance – 7:30 p.m.

Ticket are Sale Online. Ticket buyers are invited to Community Center Theater Box Office on Saturday, December 3. If you could not make it, Try getting the Wicked Sacramento Community Center Theater Tickets Online.

Visit Broadway Sacramento for more details on box office sales.

Wicked, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Disney’s Enchanted, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman (“My So Called Life,” “Once And Again” and “thirtysomething”), is based on the best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire. Wicked, winner of 35 major awards, including a Grammy® Award and 3 Tony® Awards, is the untold story of the witches of Oz. It is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.

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Mega hit musical, Wicked returns to Los Angeles’ Pantages Theatre Wednesday, November 30 for a limited holiday engagement through January 29, 2012.

When Wicked first played the Pantages in 2005, it broke box-office records and sold out in record time. The musical returned two years later to begin an extended engagement that would go on to run two years, becoming one of the longest-running Broadway musicals in L.A. history.

Wicked Los Angeles Leading Cast are Katie Rose Clarke as Glinda and Mamie Parris as Elphaba with Liz McCartney as Madame Morrible and Mark Jacoby as The Wizard. Also featured are Stefanie Brown as Nessarose, Justin Brill as Boq, Kyle Dean Massey as Fiyero, Paul Slade Smith as Dr. Dillamond and Mariand Torres as the Standby for Elphaba.

The cast also includes native Los Angeles residents Lauren Boyd, Napoleon W. Gladney, Brenda Hamilton, Alli McGinnis and Kevin McMahon. Rounding out the company are Megan Campanile, Antonette Cohen, Rick Desloge, Melanie Field, Luis Augusto Figueroa, Timothy A. Fitz-Gerald, Renee Lawless-Orsini, Philip Dean Lightstone, Marissa Lupp, Michael Mahany, Sterling Masters, Christopher Russo, Adea Michelle Sessoms, Carla Stickler, Brandon Tyler, Shanna VanDerwerker, Nicky Venditti and Mikey Winslow.

The production also features scenic design by Eugene Lee, costume design by Susan Hilferty, lighting design by Kenneth Posner, sound design by Tony Meola, projections by Elaine J. McCarthy, wig and hair design by Tom Watson, music supervision and arrangements by Stephen Oremus, orchestrations by William David Brohn and dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott.

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Wicked musical returns to Birmingham, Alabama next year February, 2012. Wicked, the Tony Award-winning musical runs almost 3 weeks from February 15 through March 4, 2012 at the BJCC Concert Hall.

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.

Wicked BJCC Concert Hall Performance Schedule:
Tuesdays through Thursdays – 7:30 p.m.
Fridays – 8:00 p.m.
Saturdays – 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Sundays – 1:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

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Wicked tour will be visiting Detroit, Michigan this December to entertain the Detroit music lovers. Wicked Detroit Opera House located at 1526 Broadway St., Detroit, performances start on December 7, 2011 and will continue through Saturday, December 31.

Wicked Detroit Opera House Performance Schedule:

Dec. 7 – 11
Thursday matinee – 1 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday evening performances – 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday matinee performances – 2:00 p.m.
Sunday evening performance – 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 13 – 18
Tuesday through Saturday evening performances – 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday matinee performances – 2:00 p.m.
Sunday evening performance – 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 20 – 25
Tuesday through Friday evening performances – 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday matinee performances – 1:00 p.m.
Saturday matinee – 1:00 p.m. (Signed performance)
No Saturday evening performance.
No performances on Sunday.

Dec. 26 – 31
Monday through Friday evening performances – 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday matinee performances – 1:00 p.m.
Saturday (New Year’s Eve) – 6:30 p.m.

$25 Lottery Seats

Each day, 2½ hours prior to show time people who present themselves at the Detroit Opera House box office will have their names placed in a lottery drum and then thirty minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of orchestra seats at $25 each, cash only. This lottery is available only in-person at the box office, with a limit of two tickets per person.

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For the third week in November, Wicked Broadway grossed $937,930 and had a 92% attendance rate, about 5% less than the previous week. The 34 shows on the boards grossed $22,924,362, slipping just under 4% from the previous week’s totals.

Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending November 20, 2011.

1. Wicked – (GERSHWIN) $1,535,489
2. The Lion King – (MINSKOFF) $1,532,701
3. Hugh Jackman, Back On Broadway – (BROADHURST) $1,468,189
4. The Book Of Mormon – (EUGENE O’NEILL) $1,367,805
5. Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark – (FOXWOODS) $1,304,416
6. War Horse – (VIVIAN BEAUMONT) $974,635
7. Jersey Boys – (AUGUST WILSON) $937,930
8. How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying – (AL HIRSCHFELD) $901,957
9. Sister Act – (BROADWAY) $770,286
10. On A Clear Day You Can See Forever – (ST. JAMES) $742,449
11. Billy Elliot: The Musical – (IMPERIAL) $715,453
12. Priscilla Queen Of The Desert – (PALACE) $709,720
13. Follies – (MARQUIS) $698,776

{Via BroadwayWorld.com}

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Wicked is currently playing on tour at the Des Moines Civic Center through December 04, 2011.

The musical focuses on Elphalba (Anne Brummel) and Galinda (Tiffany Haas), the wicked witch of the west and the good witch of the north, respectively. When the audience meets them, Elphalba is a green-skinned girl used to having the world look askance at her. Galinda (who renames herself with the more familiar Glinda only after one of the characters gets her goat), is the popular one, for whom everything has always come easily.

The two form an unlikely friendship (one of the few true clichés in this story) and jointly go to Oz to meet the wizard. The crisis they face there splits them. Elphalba’s strength allows her to make what she sees as the right choice. Galinda, without Elphalba’s tough background, makes the easy one.

Brummel and Haas are certainly up to the roles. They give both the realism necessary to pull off the most poignant scenes, the ones where the audience cringes with recognition of themselves in Elphalba’s painful awkwardness and Galinda’s stunning shallowness. The growth of the characters through the story feels natural, not scripted.

They have an able cast surrounding them. David Nathan Perlow as Fiyero, a playboy prince, turns in a solid performance, as does Dan Pacheco as a lovelorn Munchkin. Neither overshadows the witches, but both hold their own while sharing the stage with them.

A note about the audience: Ovations at the end of the performance can seem more of a duty than a genuine expression. The audience I saw had no such hesitation, coming out of their seats almost as soon as the final song ended for a well-deserved standing ovation.

Read the complete review {Via Journal Express}

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