{"id":1167,"date":"2011-06-25T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T16:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2011-06-25T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T16:19:07","slug":"wicked-kennedy-center-review-wicked%e2%80%99s-heart-shines-like-emeralds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wicked-kennedy-center-review-wicked%e2%80%99s-heart-shines-like-emeralds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Kennedy Center Review – Wicked\u2019s Heart Shines Like Emeralds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wicked national tour<\/a>, visiting Washington<\/a> for the first time since 2005, sounds first-rate. Cooper ably recalls Glinda\u2019s originator, Kristin Chenoweth, in her comic timing for \u201cPopular,\u201d and she and Roscioli mesh expertly in their second act duet, \u201cFor Good.\u201d Randy Danson\u2019s Madame Morrible is as persuasive an inhabitant of that oleaginous part as you\u2019re likely to encounter, and Colin Hanlon is a dashing presence as Fiyero, the romantic wedge between Elphaba and Glinda.<\/p>\n

\u201cWicked,\u201d with an infectiously pulsing score by Stephen Schwartz, is the environmentally and politically conscious back story of \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d told from the points of view of one witch labeled good and the other wicked. But labels, the show informs us, are never to be trusted \u2014 one of the hardest truths to drum into high schoolers\u2019 heads.<\/p>\n

What accounts for the truly devotional impact of \u201cWicked\u201d? People don\u2019t just pay to see this show, which is making a return, summer-long visit to the Kennedy Center; they open their wallets as if it were their obligation to tithe for Elphaba and Glinda (and, of course, the musical\u2019s savvy investors).<\/p>\n

Eight years after its opening, it is still regularly Broadway\u2019s top-grossing show. Last week, it took in $1.7 million in New York \u2014 the nearest empty seats were in a diner down the block. In the Kennedy Center Opera House<\/a>, center orchestra seats for evening performances are selling for up to $250 each, and are going fast. The musical\u2019s reach, measured in other terms: When \u201cGlee\u2019s\u201d Kurt and Rachel traveled to show-choir nationals in New York<\/a>, their dream-come-true moment was singing a \u201cWicked\u201d tune on the Broadway stage.<\/p>\n

Read the complete review at The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wicked is currently playing on tour in Vancouver, BC Canada<\/a> and Washington-DC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wicked national tour, visiting Washington for the first time since 2005, sounds first-rate. Cooper ably recalls Glinda\u2019s originator, Kristin Chenoweth, in her comic timing for \u201cPopular,\u201d and she and Roscioli mesh expertly in their second act duet, \u201cFor Good.\u201d Randy Danson\u2019s Madame Morrible is as persuasive an inhabitant of that oleaginous part as you\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[463,509],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}