The Wicked musical on Broadway Across Canada tour is currently playing at Queen Elizabeth Theatre through Sunday June 29, 2014.

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Wicked Broadway Musical A Shining Star In Vancouver! – Reviewed By Alan Samuel, TheLinkPaper.ca

Again Broadway Across Canada scores a hit with their lavish Wicked production. Long sustained standing ovations aside this delightful musical is bringing the house down at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Based loosely on the classic 1939 MGM classic The Wizard of Oz this new slick version looks at the witches of Oz from a fresh new angle. Women, love, family and jealously all figure prominently in this 2 1/2 hour spectacular that Oz creator Baum and studio head Louis B. Mayer would be rightly proud of.

In this 2 act play bolstered by dozens of hip songs we see the flavour of Oz can put through the ringer when a green faced girl matures, gets scorned and hates all that’s good in the world. Over time our little Wicked gets tangled in a monumental struggle with her dad, her wheel-chair bound sister and a school girl princess like friend. How these three individuals handle their differences will keep your eyes glued to the stage throughout this enchanting romp.

Complete with gorgeous costumes, snazzy special effects, an appearance by a tin man, a larger than life carnival barking wizard caricature and unforgettable songs by our two leading ladies makes Wicked a delightful fun – filled time for the whole family.

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Wicked musical will be playing at Queen Elizabeth Theatre through Sunday June 29, 2014. Final few performances are left for Wicked in Vancouver Canada. Don’t miss it! Buy Wicked Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Vancouver Tickets NOW.

Wicked Scheduled to Vancouver Tour for 2014-2015 Broadway Across Canada. Winner of 50 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is “Broadway’s biggest blockbuster” (The New York Times).

Fans of Wicked in Vancouver Canada will have have a chance to see the amazing show again at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in 2014. Wicked Musical will be performing at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for one month from May 28 to June 29, 2014. Wicked was previously here at Vancouver during it’s Western Canada 5 City Tour in 2011.

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The Queen Elizabeth Theatre is one of Canada’s largest proscenium theatres with 2,765 seats. Queen Elizabeth Theatre is located in downtown Vancouver.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two 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. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good makes for “the most complete–and completely satisfying–new musical in a long time” (USA Today).

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Joe Mantello’s stage production of Wicked is a suspenseful story about appearances versus reality, and doing the right thing as opposed to what is popular.

Wicked is currently performing at Queen Elizabeth Theatre and playing thru Sunday, June 26, 2011.

Wicked is the untold story of the witches of Oz “long before Dorothy dropped in.”

Elphaba (Anne Brummel) and Glinda (Natalie Daradich) form an unlikely friendship on their journey to becoming the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda the Good. Elphalba is gregarious, gifted, and green, while Glinda is pretty, petty, and popular. The two friends come to a collision course as they fall in love with the same man (Fiyero, played with easy charm by David Nathan Perlow) and find themselves on the opposite sides of a political struggle.

At the show’s opening, the elaborate set lit up with an enormous dragon that stretched the width of the stage, and Glinda the Good gliding down in an enormous silver bubble.

It’s present day, the wicked witch has been melted (not a spoiler if you’ve seen the Wizard of Oz) and Glinda has some questions to answer.

The story then jumps back in time to how Glinda and Elphaba first met, before either was born, then slowly forward to present day: moving through schools, the Emerald City, the palace of the Wizard of Oz, and the hideaway where Elphalba organizes a rebellion against the corrupt government.

The stage design is breathtaking, with large mechanical props, flying monkeys dangling from wires, alternating indoor and outdoor sets of schools, dorms, parks, and dungeons. With flying monkeys, wizards and witchcraft, talking goats, the set recreates the universe from Maguire’s book.

The animals are a key part of the Wicked drama: highly intelligent creatures, the animals in Oz are capable of speech and have no human masters or owners. Authorities, however, are working to robbing the animals of their speech capability and spreading the idea that animals are to be kept in cages.

Brummel is convincing as Elphalba, defiantly defending the animals in Oz, even as her activities lead her to be ostracized as the “wicked” witch of the West. Daradich was excellent as Glinda, who struggles with her desire to support her friend yet also keep her social status and popularity. Audiences are kept on edge whether Glinda help her friend, or continue being “good” merely in the eyes of the public.

Fans of the book may be disappointed to see that the musical often deviates from the original story. Some of the basic plot points remain in tact, but the political edge has disappeared, the characters are far more light-hearted. The relationships between the characters and their histories have been altered or mixed up, and wraps up with a crowd-pleasing ending — Glinda and Elphalba are happily reunited, with Glinda becoming the new ruler of Oz. It’s a big departure from the original story, which shows Elphalba’s near-certain death at Dorothy’s hands.

{Via VancouverObserver.com}

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Wicked kick starts the Western Canada Tour in Vancouver starting June 1st, 2011. Anne Brummel stars as witch Elphaba and Natalie Daradich stars as witch Glinda in the traveling production of the hit Broadway musical, Wicked.

{Videos via The Vancouver Sun}

Video 1: One Short Day Montage

Video 2: Defying Gravity Montage

Wicked Western Canada Tour starting June 1st, 2011 in Vancouver and moving to Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg. Wicked, the blockbuster Broadway musical opens in Vancouver June 1 for a month-long run at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

According to the Wizard of Oz, “the best way to bring people together is to give them a really good enemy.”

Wicked is the biggest-grossing Broadway musical of all time, and was subsequently declared “the defining musical of the decade” by the New York Times.

Wicked tells the story of Elphaba, a girl who through no fault of her own was born green, and her friend Galinda, who is perfect and popular, and who later becomes Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. Through their relationship, we take a journey that explores the nature of good and “wicked”, friendship and ultimately reaches Oz, where the well-meaning Elphaba is manipulated and used by the corrupt and power-hungry wizard.

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Wicked, Broadway blockbuster, the musical story of Oz before Dorothy arrived, is coming to Vancouver BC Canada.

The play, based on the novel by Gregory MaGuire, will have its run at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre from Wednesday, June 1 to Sunday June 26.

Wicked has won 35 major awards including a Grammy and three Tonys. The musical is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Vagina Monologues) and features musical staging by Tony® Award winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who’s Tommy, How To Succeed…). 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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