{"id":1541,"date":"2012-04-15T02:38:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T09:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2012-04-15T02:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T09:40:50","slug":"wicked-wizard-mark-jacoby-about-the-greatest-musical-and-his-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wicked-wizard-mark-jacoby-about-the-greatest-musical-and-his-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Wizard Mark Jacoby about the Greatest Musical and His Role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Jacoby plays the role as the Wizard in the touring production of the smash musical \u201cWicked\u201d at The Buell Theatre<\/a>. Reporter Adam Goldstein caught up with the stage veteran to get his take on the musical\u2019s popularity.<\/p>\n

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Mark Jacoby plays the role as the Wizard in Wicked<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

As a cast member who\u2019s been with the touring production of \u201cWicked\u201d for more than a year, can you speak to the durability of the piece? What is it about the show that\u2019s made it such a reliable money maker since its debut in 2003?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve thought a lot about that, to tell you the truth. I think first of all, this is going to sound ridiculously mundane, but it\u2019s really good in every department. All of the elements of stagecraft are there. Nobody leaves the theater thinking, \u2018I didn\u2019t get my money\u2019s worth.\u2019 The other thing I would look at is this very compelling friendship between these two women. It starts with friction and ends with love. The other thing that brings people in is the other worldly, paranormal nature of it. It\u2019s not anywhere, USA. There\u2019s something about that that captures people.<\/p>\n

This is a story that\u2019s seen plenty of adaptations. How do you think the musical juggles references to the original L. Frank Baum book, \u201cThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz,\u201d with subsequent retellings? Do you see any links to the film from 1939 woven into Maguire\u2019s source material?<\/p>\n

My favorite single aspect of the show is the very ingenious and clever way in which the story is layered over the \u2018Wizard of Oz\u2019 story that we all know so well. There is sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes symbolic references to that story. I think it\u2019s delightful. One of the conceptual problems is that most of us are more familiar with the movie than we are with the book. The notion that the whole thing is a dream is not part of the original book. It\u2019s presented as a real story. The question then is to what extent are the factual elements of the book and the movie part of our underpinnings. That\u2019s an ongoing question. Playing the Wizard, the question is, am I that guy that Dorothy met in Kansas or am I not? Is this a different notion? Things like that are ongoing. There\u2019s much discussion backstage even after seven years.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Wizard, the character has seen several incarnations and portrayals in film and in literature since 1900. In \u201cWicked,\u201d the character takes on a much more sinister aspect, a quality drawn from Maguire\u2019s book. How do you approach the Wizard\u2019s motivations and actions in tackling the role?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m always surprised when somebody comments about the Wizard being the villain of the piece. I think very few villains see themselves as villains. True villains, as a rule, don\u2019t see themselves as such. I think the Wizard is a very simple guy, a very ordinary man who, due to circumstances beyond his control, found himself in an extraordinary situation where he became feared and deified in Oz. Being a simple man, he rode with it. He got himself carried away. As he says, \u2018What can I say, I got carried away, and not just by a balloon.\u2019 It\u2019s an easy thing to do when people imbue you with supernatural powers.<\/p>\n

The interview by reporter Adam Goldstein {Via AuroraSentinel.com<\/a>}<\/p>\n

Wicked play at Temple Buell Theatre<\/a> continue through May 20, 2012.<\/strong> Get $10 OFF on Wicked Denver CO Ticket<\/a> Orders of $350 or more by using code #SpringSavings at Checkout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Jacoby plays the role as the Wizard in the touring production of the smash musical \u201cWicked\u201d at The Buell Theatre. Reporter Adam Goldstein caught up with the stage veteran to get his take on the musical\u2019s popularity. As a cast member who\u2019s been with the touring production of \u201cWicked\u201d for more than a year, […]<\/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":[695,169,506,644,504,505,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"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=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}