{"id":2487,"date":"2013-09-15T05:12:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T12:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2013-09-15T05:15:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T12:15:41","slug":"wicked-musical-wizard-john-davidson-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wicked-musical-wizard-john-davidson-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Musical &#8216;Wizard&#8217; John Davidson Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV celebrity John Davidson is on stage as the Wizard in Wicked musical. <strong>Davidson plays the Wizard in Wicked which opens a six-week run Wednesday September 18, 2013 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/wicked-orpheum-theatre-mn.html\">Orpheum Theatre MN<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_2488\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/wicked-minneapolis-mn-tickets.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2488\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2488\" title=\"John Davidson as the Wizard in Wicked\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/john-davidson-as-the-wizar-in-wicked.jpg\" alt=\"John Davidson as the Wizard in Wicked\" width=\"399\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/john-davidson-as-the-wizar-in-wicked.jpg 399w, http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/john-davidson-as-the-wizar-in-wicked-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Davidson as the Wizard in Wicked<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m only onstage 17 minutes out of a three-hour show, and they\u2019re paying me quite well to do that,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m a very lucky man.\u201d \u201cI grew up singing Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein, but \u2018Wicked\u2019 has taken the musical to a whole new level,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m proud to be a part of this production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davidson said he is fine with the smaller part of the Wizard instead of being the leading man he was for so many years. \u201cI\u2019m realistic about where I am in life right now. But I love playing the con man,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is happy still to be involved in his first love, live theater, although he believes all the media are related.<\/p>\n<p>The role also gives Davidson a chance to see the country. He and his wife, Rhonda, are traveling around for the tour in a camper. While their mobile home does not rise to Loretta Lynn-style luxury, it does have two bathrooms and a full kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great way to see the country and you meet a lot of great people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/wicked-minneapolis-mn-tickets.html\">Wicked Minneapolis MN Tickets<\/a> to watch the show with the new cast.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV celebrity John Davidson is on stage as the Wizard in Wicked musical. Davidson plays the Wizard in Wicked which opens a six-week run Wednesday September 18, 2013 at the Orpheum Theatre MN. \u201cI\u2019m only onstage 17 minutes out of a three-hour show, and they\u2019re paying me quite well to do that,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/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":[165,695,169,320,1144,161,112,565,581,263,1143],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487"}],"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=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}