{"id":575,"date":"2010-07-19T17:56:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2010-07-19T17:56:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:56:38","slug":"something-wicked-this-way-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/something-wicked-this-way-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Wicked this way comes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wicked, the highly successful musical play based on Gregory Maguire\u2019s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, looks like it will be the latest in a long line of hit shows to make the transition to the big screen. According to the entertainment website Deadline, the show\u2019s producer, Marc Platt, alongside the book writer Winnie Holzman and the songwriter Stephen Schwartz, have already begun talks with potential directors.<\/p>\n

Names cropping up for the director\u2019s job on the sure-fire hit include the mastermind behind Lost, J.J. Abrams, Rob Marshall (Chicago and Nine), James Mangold (Walk the Line) and Ryan Murphy of Glee fame. No one has been confirmed for a role in the movie, but there are rumours that the original stars of the Broadway show \u2013 Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth \u2013 will reprise their roles as Elphaba and Glinda respectively.<\/p>\n

since its first run in 2003 (at San Francisco<\/a>\u2019s Curran Theatre) the show has gone on to break box-office records the world over. Wicked has won over 35 major international awards (the most recent being the 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for Most Popular Show) and to this day, seven years after hitting the Big Apple, it is still the top-selling musical on Broadway. <\/p>\n

When seats for the show first went on sale in London<\/a>, in 2006, more than \u00a3100,000 worth were purchased within the first hour. More than 1,500 performances later, the UK production has played to almost three million people, recently reaching a box-office milestone by hitting ticket sales of over \u00a3100 million (Dh349m) \u2013 making Wicked\u2019s worldwide gross a whopping \u00a31.2 billion and further cementing its status as one of the most popular musical shows of all time.<\/p>\n

And the story is nothing if not right-on. The novel on which the show is loosely based was written by the American author Gregory Maguire in 1995 and was itself based on the Frank L Baum classic The Wizard of Oz. Maguire was introduced to the idea behind his novel after being heavily influenced by two major events that took place while he was living in London in the early 90s \u2013 the infamous James Bulger murder (in which two young boys brutally murdered the two-year-old toddler, James) and the first Gulf War \u2013 which saw the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, being referred to by the British press as \u201cthe next Hitler\u201d. Fascinated by the media\u2019s demonisation of the two young boys and Hussein, Maguire began thinking about the labels that go along with social judgement \u2013 bad, evil, wicked.<\/p>\n

Check out the current Wicked Tour Dates and Tickets Details<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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