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Witches of Wicked Charm PPAC Audience – Reviewed By BILL RODRIGUEZ, http://providence.thephoenix.com/.

It’s not easy being green, but it’s no walk in the park being mean either. Those are the lessons of the wildly popular musical Wicked, on tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center in an extended run through January 12. Subtitled “The Untold Story of The Witches of Oz,” the tale has been seen by more than 13 million theatergoers from New York to Japan. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, the book is by Winnie Holzman, and it was directed by Joe Mantello.

No Judy Garland look-alike appears, but occasional details from the movie emerge in the background, such as a glimpse of a yellow brick road and, in silhouette toward the end, a bucket of water melting the wicked witch, Elphaba (Alison Luff). (Don’t worry, in this telling that was faked, so she’s fine.)

This backstory to The Wizard of Oz takes place in a land of wand-waving and spell-casting that Harry Potter would enjoy. Children can be cruel, so we’d expect them to give Elphaba a hard time when she arrives at Shiz University, but her father has apparently been crueler, making clear that her only purpose in life is to take care of her wheelchair-bound sister Nessarose (Jaime Rosenstein).

Read the complete review {Via The Providence Phoenix}

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Witches of Wicked Charm PPAC Audience – Reviewed By Andy Smith, ProvidenceJournal.com.

The witches of Oz still cast their spell.

The musical has a lot going for it, from the catchy tunes to Eugene Lee’s brilliant clockwork sets. But the key is the relationship between Elphaba, the wicked (and very green) witch, and her enemy-turned-friend Glinda.

Elphaba is the lead part (after all, the show is called “Wicked” ) and Alison Luff gave a strong performance as both actor and singer, belting out signature songs such as “Defying Gravity” while portraying her character’s progression from naivete to ambition, outrage and finally rebellion.

But Glinda, played by Gina Beck, had to carry much of the comedic load. Beck has a lovely voice, although not quite as strong as Luff’s, and she is a gifted comic actress.

Glinda is an insufferably shallow, perky blonde who dresses like Barbie, and is apparently beloved by all. The outcast Elphaba immediately despises her, as the two sing “What is This Feeling?” (It’s loathing, that’s what.).

But the two go on to develop a friendship — there is a very funny scene in which Glinda tries to teach Elphaba the proper way to toss her hair — before they are temporarily torn apart by both love and politics.

Read the complete review {Via ProvidenceJournal.com}

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Jaime Rosenstein is all set to join the record-breaking, the most popular musical Wicked. Rosenstein will be playing Nessarose in Wicked at PPAC. Wicked performances at Providence Performing Arts Center (220 Weybosset St #2, Providence, RI 02906) starts from Today December 26 and conitnue through January 12, 2014.

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Jaime Rosenstein to Play Nessarose at PPAC

Jaime Rosenstein is a Brown University graduate and a veteran of the joint Brown-Trinity Rep program. Actress Jaime Rosenstein auditioned for “Wicked” on a Monday, was told she got the job on Tuesday, and was flying off to Dallas two days later to join the national tour of the popular musical.

“It was kind of great,” said Rosenstein, 25. “It stopped me from over thinking.”

After she got her undergraduate degree at Brown, Rosenstein figured she needed more training and took up acting in Brown’s MFA program, which the school runs in conjunction with Trinity Rep.

“You want to be an actor who sings,” said Rosenstein, “and who can bring truth to the role.”

She felt so-called straight acting could help that happen. For her final project at Brown, she sang selections from “Cabaret” and teachers Brian McEleney and Stephen Berenson showed her how to bring her acting skills to the songs.

“It was invaluable,” she said.

Rosenstein was hired for the tour back in April. She said she had done her final project by then and her teachers were nice enough to give her a degree before the semester was out so she could go on tour.

Rosenstein, who’s from Manhattan, plays Nessarose in the show, the wheelchair-bound sister of Elphaba, who becomes the green wicked witch. “Wicked” offers the back story of the “Wizard of Oz” from the point of view of the witches.

“I’m just trying to make a life on the road,” she said. “There are times when it takes its toll, and times when you embrace it.”

But there’s also the thrill of landing a major tour right out of school.

“It’s been amazing,” she said. “It’s been beyond exciting to be part of this.”

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With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman, Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello and features musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento. Based on the best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked, winner of 35 major awards, including a Grammy® and three Tony® Awards, is the untold story of the witches of Oz.

Wicked Providence Performing Arts Center Shows:
Thursday 12/26/2013 – 7:30 PM
Friday 12/27/2013 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Saturday 12/28/2013 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 12/29/2013 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Monday 12/30/2013 – 7:30 PM
Tuesday 12/31/2013 – 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM
Wednesday 1/1/2014 – 7:00 PM
Thursday 1/2/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 1/3/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 1/4/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 1/5/2014 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Tuesday 1/7/2014 – 7:00 PM
Wednesday 1/8/2014 – 7:00 PM
Thursday 1/9/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 1/10/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 1/11/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 1/12/2014 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM

Given the darkness and complexity of the subject matter and the length of the performance (2 hours and 45 minutes), it’s not appropriate for those younger than 8.

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Wicked Capitol Theatre Shows:
Wednesday 7/9/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 7/10/2014 – 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM
Friday 7/11/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 7/12/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 7/13/2014 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Tuesday 7/15/2014 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday 7/16/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 7/17/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 7/18/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 7/19/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 7/20/2014 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Tuesday 7/22/2014 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday 7/23/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 7/24/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 7/25/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 7/26/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 7/27/2014 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Tuesday 7/29/2014 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday 7/30/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 7/31/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 8/1/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 8/2/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 8/3/2014 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Tuesday 8/5/2014 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday 8/6/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 8/7/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 8/8/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 8/9/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 8/10/2014 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Tuesday 8/12/2014 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday 8/13/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 8/14/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 8/15/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 8/16/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 8/17/2014 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Tuesday 8/19/2014 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday 8/20/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 8/21/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 8/22/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 8/23/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 8/24/2014 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM

Based on the best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked, winner of 35 major awards, including a Grammy® and three 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. Wicked features a score by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman.

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Wicked is Back Again at State Theatre – Cleveland, to Dazzle You with Big Tunes, Witchy Spells and Major Glitz – Reviewed By Christine Howey, CleveScene.com.

Wicked is about the original Wicked Witch and her counterpart Glinda the Good Witch, not the versions Hamilton and Billie Burke created in the iconic flick. But their indelible performances always seem to hover around and about this show, featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman.

This show has been performed so many times in so many places, it’s as seamless and smooth as a billiard ball. But that’s how the devotees of the play, many of whom tend to be teen and pre-teen girls, want it to be.

This production doesn’t disappoint from that perspective. Indeed, it may even exceed previous touring companies in some respects.

Featuring a story with some fairly complex plot turns that chronologically straddles the arrival of Dorothy in Oz, Wicked is a polished and stunningly designed production that never fails to amaze. Even when some of the set pieces and effects are clearly extraneous, they still have to power to fascinate.

If a house landed on you when you were young and you don’t know the story, suffice to say that the mean green witch (actual name Elphaba) and Glinda (actual name Galinda) met when students at Shiz University. Pursuing their studies in sorcery, they eventually bond, but are clearly flying their brooms in different directions, career-wise.

Glinda is a ditzy Legally Blonde-ish kind of witch, a fave of everyone who meets her. But she has a good heart and shares her crowd-pleasing knowledge with the sharp-edged Elphaba in the catchy song “Popular.”

In that role, Hayley Podschun dutifully mimics the performance markers set down by the original stage Glinda, Kristin Chenoweth. (Hey, this show is a valuable corporate product and like any good corporation, they’re looking for consistency.) But Podschun nails her songs with verve and high spirits, and what more can you ask?

Of course, Elphaba is an entirely different sort of enchantress. This is cemented in the show’s sterling song, the Act 1 closer “Defying Gravity,” in which Elphaba declares her independence in a rush of beautifully scored self-help aphorisms: “Too late for second guessing/Too late to go back to sleep/It’s time to trust my instincts/Close my eyes and leap!”

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Wicked returns to PlayhouseSquare with wonderful leading ladies – Reviewed By Brooke Bridenstine, News-Herald.com.

“It’s good to see me, isn’t it?” she asks. “No need to respond. That was rhetorical.” Nonetheless, Galinda, it is wonderful to see you.

Here in Northeast Ohio, we’re pretty experienced when it comes to catching the smash musical “Wicked” at PlayhouseSquare. The show is on stage at the State Theatre, marking the fourth time a professional tour of the Broadway show has landed at the downtown Cleveland performing-arts complex, playing to full houses each time.

If we needed a reminder of why we love this show — which takes place before and during the events of Frank L. Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” — this production will do it. As with previous versions, it’s heartwarming, hilarious and crammed with terrific musical numbers. (If you don’t enjoy the Act I-closing “Defying Gravity,” there’s just something wrong with you.)

The backbone of “Wicked” is the unlikely friendship of popular, pretty girl Galinda (Hayley Podschun), who will become Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, and outcast Elphaba (Jennifer DiNola), the future Wicked Witch of the West. The bubbly blonde and the green-skinned brainiac are, at first, rivals, but they grow to be friends when Galinda feels badly for Elphaba at a school dance, when the latter dances by herself.

“I’ll say this for her: She doesn’t give a twig about what anybody else thinks,” says Fiyero (David Nathan Perlow), a dashing gent who hooks up with Galinda but who may just have more in common with Elphaba.

“Of course she does,” Galinda says, seeing her as a person for the first time. “She just pretends she doesn’t.”

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Wicked will return to Majestic Theatre San Antonio March 12 to March 30, 2014. Wicked broke box office records and sold out in record time in 2009 and 2011. Tickets are on sale now for the San Antonio, TX return engagement of Broadway’s biggest blockbuster musical Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz.

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Broadway’s biggest blockbuster, Wicked return engagement at the Majestic Theatre will play 24 performances from March 12 to March 30, 2014.

Wicked Majestic Theatre Schedule:
Wednesday 3/12/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 3/13/2014 – 2:00 PM
Thursday 3/13/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 3/14/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 3/15/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 3/16/2014 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Tuesday 3/18/2014 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday 3/19/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 3/20/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 3/21/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 3/22/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 3/23/2014 – 2:00 PM and 6:30 PM
Tuesday 3/25/2014 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday 3/26/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 3/27/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 3/28/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 3/29/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 3/30/2014 – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM

“Broadway in San Antonio at the Majestic Theatre is pleased to welcome Wicked back to San Antonio for its third engagement,” says Mike Rilley, general manager of the Majestic and Charline McCombs Empire Theatres. “The national tour is a spectacular production that keeps audiences spellbound by its talent and story. We’re looking forward to experiencing the magic once again.”

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Wicked Orpheum Theatre Schedule:
Wednesday 5/7/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 5/8/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 5/9/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 5/10/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 5/11/2014 – 1:30 PM and 7:00 PM
Tuesday 5/13/2014 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday 5/14/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 5/15/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 5/16/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 5/17/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 5/18/2014 – 1:30 PM and 7:00 PM
Tuesday 5/20/2014 – 7:30 PM
Wednesday 5/21/2014 – 7:30 PM
Thursday 5/22/2014 – 7:30 PM
Friday 5/23/2014 – 8:00 PM
Saturday 5/24/2014 – 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Sunday 5/25/2014 – 1:30 PM and 7:00 PM

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“WICKED is such a wonderful story about friendship, having the courage to stand up for what you believe and the cost of the choices you make,” said Maria Van Laanen, Fox Cities P.A.C. executive vice president. “People in our community have found a strong connection with this spectacular musical’s beautiful sets, costumes and unforgettable score!”

Wicked Fox Cities PAC Schedule:
Tuesday to Saturday Evenings – 7:30 PM
Sunday Evenings – 6:30 PM
Saturday Matinees – 2:00 PM
Sundays Matinees – 1:00 PM

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