There are many plays that entertain throughout each city’s Broadway run – but no other play gets as much attention or fanfare as Wicked. With enthusiastic patrons attending the show twice, third times or sometimes over a dozen, the Orpheum Theater this year is sure to get a serious boost in income when the Wicked headlines for the 2010-2011 Broadway season. During last summer’s Wicked run at the Orpheum 57,575 people saw the show – selling out 99% of the tickets in its first week. The show was the most successful for the theater in 30 years, and helped to boost the local economy when it brought in a near estimated $7 million for its first run, reports Biz Journals. Now, the show is opening up again with the Broadway season. Here’s the schedule, for those interested in seeing something other than the famous prequel to the Wizard of Oz:

The Color Purple: August 24-29, 2010

• Wicked: Oct. 13-31, 2010

• 9 to 5 the Musical: Nov. 2-7, 2010

• Dreamgirls: Nov. 30-Dec. 5, 2010

• Shrek the Musical: Jan. 18-23, 2011

• Young Frankenstein: March 8-13, 2011

• Monty Python’s Spamalot: May 6-8, 2011

• Disney’s Beauty and the Beast: June 14-19, 2011

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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.

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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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After breaking box office records and selling out its entire run in record time both in 2006 and 2008, Wicked, the smash hit musical, makes its much-anticipated return to Historic Orpheum Theatre mn in Minneapolis, MN, Wednesday, August 11-Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010.

“Wicked has been a major success both times it played the Orpheum Theatre and fans have been eagerly waiting for its return. Few shows generate such repeat and fervent enthusiasm,” commented Tom Hoch, Hennepin Theatre Trust’s President and CEO. “We are obviously thrilled to welcome back Wicked and expect the excitement to keep building!”

Minneapolis is not the only city which has enjoyed such demand. The national tour of Wicked has “cast quite a spell” (Washington Post) throughout North America, breaking box office records in every city that it has played, including Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Boston to name a Called “a cultural phenomenon” by Variety and just named “the defining musical of the decade” by The New York Times, Wicked continues to thrill audiences around the world.

Performance dates for Wicked are Wednesday, August 11 to Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010 at the Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Avenue, Mpls., MN 55403. Performance times are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m.; Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. There will also be a matinee performance on Thursday, August 12.

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Natalie Daradich, Chris Peluso to Join Second North American Tour of Wicked

Natalie Daradich will play Glinda and Chris Peluso will play Fiyero in the second North American tour of Wicked on March 10 when the production begins its engagement at the Landmark Theater in Richmond Virginia.

The company also features Marcie Dodd (Elphaba), Marilyn Caskey (Madame Morrible), Don Amendolia (The Wizard), David de Vries (Dr. Dillamond), Zach Hanna (Boq), Kristine Reese (Nessarose), and Anne Brummel (Standby for Elphaba), as well as Meredith Akins, Alicia L. Albright, Kerry Blanchard, Michael Drolet, Jeremy Duvall, Christine Dwyer, Peter C. Ermides, Ryan Patrick Farrell, KC Fredericks, Jenn Furman, Jacqui Graziano, Charles Hagerty, Todd Hanebrink, Ryan Jackson, Lauren Linville, Michelle London, Lesley McKinnell, Casey Quinn, Don Richard, Daniel Torres, Erin Wilson, Justin Wirick, Lindsay Wood, and Kevin Samual Yee.

Based on Gregory Maguire’s novel of the same name, Wicked features a score by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. The production is directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging by Wayne Cilento.

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Before the end of 2010, Indianapolis will once again be graced by Elphaba and her wicked ways, as “Wicked” returns to the mid west city in December. The announcement, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal, came as the entire Broadway series for Indianapolis, which will also include Mary Poppins, Dreamgirls, Grease, Rock of Ages and 9 to 5. The shows for this season include 101 Dalmatians, A Chorus Line, Legally Blonde, Jersey Boys and Nickelodeon Presents Storytime Live.

Wicked is set to be running from December 15 through January 1, 2011 at the Murat Theatre in the Murat Centre. The theater, according to Broadway Across America, has been named in America’s National Register of Historic Places. The building was first constructed in 1909 with a renovation happening in hte late ’90s for $11 million. Eventually the building became one of the most prestigious in the area as it opened up with the Murat Theater, holding about 2,600, and the Murat Egyptian Room, with 2,000 standing. The venue has been deemed “a peoples place” as tourists and locals alike enjoy events at the Murat. Located on New Jersey Street in Indianapolis, The Murat Theater is a perfect place to welcome Wicked again.

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Mandy Gonzalez will assume the role of Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked at the Gershwin Theatre on March 23. The role is currently being played by Dee Roscioli.

Beginning performances on Tuesday, March 23, Mandy Gonzalez, who originated the role of Nina in the Broadway musical, In the Heights, will assume the role of Elphaba in the musicAl Blockbuster Wicked. Mandy joins a cast which includes Katie Rose Clarke as Glinda, Tony Award-winner Rondi Reed as Madame Morrible, P.J. Benjamin as The Wizard, Andy Karl as Fiyero, Alex Brightman as Boq, Jenny Fellner as Nessarose, and Timothy Britten Parker as Dr. Dillamond. The role of Elphaba is currently being played by Dee Roscioli.

Mandy Gonzalez was last seen on and off-Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights, where she originated the role of Nina Rosario (Drama Desk Award/Ensemble). Other Broadway appearances include Lennon, Aida, and Dance of the Vampires. Mandy received an OBIE Award for her performance in the Off-Broadway production of Eli’s Comin’. Film/TV: “The Good Wife,” “One Life to Live,” “The Guiding Light,” “Third Watch,” and recently completed the film After. Mandy can be heard in Disney’s Mulan 2 as the singing voice of Mei.

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The Broadway tour of “Wicked” is coming to the Overture Center in Madison this fall.

“It’s really exciting that right on the heels of ‘Lion King’ we’re getting another top blockbuster multiweek musical in the fall,” said Overture President and CEO Tom Carto. “That’s going to give us good momentum for letting this region know that first-class Broadway is here to stay in Madison.”

“Wicked” is set to run Sept. 21 through Oct. 10, eight shows per week. A Stephen Schwartz musical based on the book by Gregory Maguire, it tells the “untold” story of the witches of Oz.

The show will run from Sept. 21 through Oct. 10 at Overture Center.

The show’s ticket prices and a complete performance schedule will be announced later, according to Overture officials.

The Wizard would have said to pay no attention to the 78 men and women behind the curtain of the Schuster Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Feb. 16. And he would have been telling the truth.

The people on stage were stagehands, not performers, making way for the smash musical “Wicked,” which begins a three-week run at the Schuster on Wednesday night, Feb. 17.

There was little drama involved, according to representatives of the country’s number-one touring production.

“Things are going really well. This is a great new venue for us,” company manager Erica Norgaard said, standing beneath the huge dragon that had already been installed over the stage. It’s a dominant feature of the set for a show that includes witches, flying monkeys and a special floor with tracks, fog and smoke elements built right in.

The move-in is a three-day process. Trucks started rolling in Monday, Feb. 15, and the unloading will continue until Wednesday afternoon.

Ken Rice, business manager for the Dayton stagehands union, said he has expanded his crew with a dozen student apprentices from Wright State University.

Most veteran backstage workers said as musicals go, “Phantom of the Opera” is bigger, but “Wicked” is big. “It’s a 9 on a scale of 10,” said Pat Keough, who is production and technical director for the Schuster and the Victoria Theatre.

One reason things are going so smoothly is that planning started more than three months ago. Keough said technicians from the show visited the Schuster to study logistics.

“Wicked” will be presented through March 7 at the Schuster, Second and Main streets. Tickets are $46-$125. There is also a lottery for 20 tickets, each priced at $25, starting two and one-half hours before each performance.

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Wicked Broadway grossed $1,359,810 for the week ending February 14, 2010. Wicked Again occupies the top place in the list.

Below are the Top 10 Grosses from BroadwayWorld.com for the week ending February 14, 2010.

Wicked $1,359,810
The Lion King $1,213,222
Billy Elliot: The Musical $1,109,442
West Side Story $1,012,095
Jersey Boys $986,753
A Little Night Music $917,526
Mary Poppins $837,224
A View from the Bridge $791,116
Mama Mia! $771,095
In the Heights $740,580