{"id":1750,"date":"2012-07-20T20:27:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T03:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2012-07-20T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T04:19:09","slug":"wicked-salt-lake-city-ut-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wicked-salt-lake-city-ut-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Salt Lake City UT Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wicked Broadway musical tour returns to Salt Lake City<\/a> for the second time<\/strong> and currently performing at Capitol Theatre \u2013 UT<\/a> from July 18 to August 26, 2012. Here is the Wicked musical review by Ben Fulton.<\/p>\n

The greatest pleasure of this touring production of “Wicked,” playing through Aug. 26 at Capitol Theatre<\/a>, is watching the interplay blossom, falter and mature between Alli Mauzey, who is a sheer delight as Glinda, and Nicole Parker, who delivers a passionate, brooding Elphaba.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s no shortage of gushing when it comes to Stephen Schwartz\u2019s and Winnie Holzman\u2019s “Wicked”\u2014 and the day the hype runs out ain\u2019t coming anytime soon \u2014 it\u2019s because the musical hits the mercurial sweet-spot of both powerful story and the glory of what\u2019s possible on the live theater stage.<\/p>\n

This would all feel inflated and ponderous if the story itself were even slightly subpar. Buttressing all the marvelous stage architecture on display, thankfully, is a powerful interplay of peer pressure, prejudice and even hints of racism in an immediately recognizable story.<\/p>\n

What happens when the ebullient but good-hearted bad girl, enamored of her own beauty and status, makes friends with the geek girl, the outsider ridiculed for her looks but imbued with a sense of principle and justice that looks beyond society\u2019s norms? “Wicked” takes that premise then complicates it with all of real life\u2019s sticky situations of jealousy, hard choices, and experiments gone horribly wrong.<\/p>\n

The genius of “Wicked” is that, in the fashion all great fairy tales, it\u2019s carried along by magical events, sights and metaphors to create an allegory that never feels like an allegory.<\/p>\n

When Glinda attempts to transform Elphaba\u2019s wardrobe by magic wand, the scene says more about the early challenges of friendship than mere magic. When Elphaba takes to the sky to announce her revolt against the Wizard, a sight stupendous enough by itself, we\u2019re granted a vision of what it means to \u2014 irony excused \u2014 stand on principle.<\/p>\n

Genius though it was for Schwartz to build a musical on the dual foundation of Gregory Maquire\u2019s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, and by extension L. Frank Baum\u2019s The Wonderful Wizard Oz, the key to “Wicked” is the Glinda-Elphaba match.<\/p>\n

Parker was also impressive as the brooding, green-skinned Elphaba with a heart for animals and their suffering, a keen eye for the abuse of power, and a cynic\u2019s despair. About the only fault one might find with the story is that the crux of Elphaba\u2019s principled stand relies too much on a pre-packaged, PETA-approved message of animal rights.<\/p>\n

No matter. “Wicked” is its own species of theater animal. A true blockbuster, it\u2019s better loved than overly analyzed; more fun to adore than nitpick. If all goes well the night you see it \u2014 if you\u2019re fortunate enough to have tickets, that is \u2014 you may well walk out of the theater feeling that, even at the price of your $195 ticket, you still got the entertainment bargain of a lifetime.<\/p>\n

Read the complete review {Via SLTrib.com<\/a>}<\/p>\n

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