{"id":425,"date":"2010-04-26T22:32:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=425"},"modified":"2010-04-26T22:32:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T02:32:23","slug":"wicked-to-end-its-san-francisco-run-this-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wicked-to-end-its-san-francisco-run-this-september\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Wicked&#039; to end its San Francisco run this September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Wicked&#8221; is closing its record-breaking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/wicked-san-francisco-ca-tickets.html\">San Francisco<\/a> run. The return engagement of the insanely popular &#8220;Wizard of Oz&#8221; prequel will close on Sept. 5 after some 660 performances in the city where the show was first born.<\/p>\n<p>Theater officials say the blockbuster musical must close to make room for the revival of &#8220;West Side Story&#8221; and other touring shows in the SHN\/Best of Broadway series this fall. So far, more than 1 million theatergoers have seen &#8220;Wicked&#8221; in San Francisco, and the production, which began in January 2009, has grossed more than $75 million.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, &#8220;The Phantom of the Opera,&#8221; which ran for five years, still holds the record for the longest-running Broadway musical in San Francisco history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wicked,&#8221; dubbed the &#8220;best musical of the decade&#8221; by Entertainment Weekly, made its world premiere in San Francisco in 2003 before becoming a pop-culture juggernaut. A girl power revamp of the L. Frank Baum mythology, &#8220;Wicked&#8221; is based on the popular books by Gregory Maguire with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ticketsus.at\/wickedthemusicalticketsonline?CTY=37&#038;DURL=http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/venueartist\/229397\/864373\">Buy Wicked San Francisco CA Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>{Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_14956894?nclick_check=1\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a>}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Wicked&#8221; is closing its record-breaking San Francisco run. The return engagement of the insanely popular &#8220;Wizard of Oz&#8221; prequel will close on Sept. 5 after some 660 performances in the city where the show was first born. Theater officials say the blockbuster musical must close to make room for the revival of &#8220;West Side Story&#8221; [&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":[126,127],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"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=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}