{"id":785,"date":"2010-11-09T19:29:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T02:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=785"},"modified":"2010-11-09T19:31:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T02:31:25","slug":"wicked-is-a-%e2%80%9cmust-see%e2%80%9d-in-arkansas-robinson-center-music-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wicked-is-a-%e2%80%9cmust-see%e2%80%9d-in-arkansas-robinson-center-music-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked is a \u201cmust see\u201d in Arkansas’ Robinson Center Music Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wicked Tour arrives in Little Rock\u2019s Robinson Center Music Hall<\/a> for a two week run playing through November 14, 2010.<\/p>\n

Wicked, which arrived with its \u201cmust see\u201d status fixed permanently on its black witches cap. Celebrity Attractions booked the show for two weeks \u2014 a huge bet on demand \u2014 and, if word of mouth is as golden as marketers believe it is, then they\u2019ll walk away winners. This \u201cWicked,\u201d bolstered by lead performances of Vicki Noon as Elphaba and Natalie Daradich as Glinda, is everything a huge musical should be \u2014 tuneful, funny, compelling, fantastical, glittery and odd. Musicals strain at credulity to begin with and the story in \u201cWicked\u201d is one that makes your head hurt if you think about it too much. <\/p>\n

And you do care about the fate of the two girls who will eventually become the Wicked Witch of the West (Noon) and Glinda the Good Witch (Daradich). \u201cWicked,\u201d with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman, works best when exploring the relationship between the two in which they begin as enemies and end as friends. The highlight is the school dorm room scene where Daradich, playing the blonde, self-absorbed Glinda to the hilt, teaches Elphaba, born with the scream-inducing green skin, to be \u201cPopular.\u201d Daradich struts and faints and pulls out every laugh imaginable.<\/p>\n

As Elphaba, Noon is the central figure in \u201cWicked\u201d and, as such, has the showstopping numbers such as \u201cDefying Gravity,\u201d which she belts out with wicked power. \u201cWicked\u201d is smart in the way it consistently works in quotes and totems such as the broomstick from \u201cThe Wizard of Oz.\u201d<\/p>\n

On many occasions the touring shows that pull into Robinson have young, uneven casts \u2014 that isn\u2019t the case with this \u201cWicked.\u201c The large cast is strong across the board. The set, which often looks is like the inside of a moving clock and packed with special effects, the lights and costumes are dazzlers. Don’t miss your chances to watch \u201cWicked\u201d in Little Rock\u2019s Robinson Center Music Hall<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Wicked Tour arrives in Little Rock\u2019s Robinson Center Music Hall for a two week run playing through November 14, 2010. Wicked, which arrived with its \u201cmust see\u201d status fixed permanently on its black witches cap. Celebrity Attractions booked the show for two weeks \u2014 a huge bet on demand \u2014 and, if word of mouth […]<\/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":[325,324],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}