\u201cWicked\u201d opens at Philadelphia\u2019s Academy of Music in Philadelphia on Wednesday (Playing January 6 to January 24, 2010), so if you haven\u2019t seen the play that the New York Times has called \u201cBroadway\u2019s biggest blockbuster,\u201d what are you waiting for? The show follows the story written by Gregory Maguire, of two classmates (and roommates) who end up becoming the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch in the film and story by L. Frank Baum, \u201cThe Wizard of Oz.\u201d The play itself has won 26 major awards including three TOny Awards and a Grammy, and even earned the original Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) a Tony Award for Best Actress the year it premiere (Idina Menzel). \u201cWicked has every piece of the Great American Musical, and even defines the genre in the current evolution. It is although thrillifying,\u201d wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer. \u201cIf every musical had the brain, the heart and the courage of \u2018Wicked,\u2019 Broadway really would be a magical place,\u201d said Time Magazine. \u201cRemember the last time an original Broadway musical made you laugh, cry and think – in the right places and for the right reasons? \u2018Wicked\u2019 is the most complete, and completely satisfying, new musical I\u2019ve come across in a long time. It\u2019s a triumph!\u201d wrote USA Today.<\/p>\n