Wicked 2nd Nationa tour reviews

[goodmanK]

Posted: 3/7/09 at 10:27pm

Anyone see the 2nd National of Wicked tonigjt. Huge Marcie Dodd fan here..any major changes in this tour compared to the 1st national? Saw the video special on broadwayworld and it looked similar..

[inick122492]

Posted: 3/7/09 at 10:42pm

Though I haven't seen the 2nd Tour, I can tell you you probably won't see a change... at least sets-wise. The sets besides Bway are all the same.

[Conor2]

Posted: 3/7/09 at 11:24pm

Actually, I heard they're now using a projection for the end of "Defying Gravity" because some of the theaters are too small.

[tourboi]

Posted: 3/7/09 at 11:39pm

A projection of what? Her flying? She stands on a cherry picker and they don't take up much room.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 3/7/09 at 11:41pm

They're using a lift, the dragon is slightly different than the other productions.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 3/7/09 at 11:51pm

On that video posted on bww, the set looks a lot smaller in that theatre. I don't know, maybe it was just the angle. I know it's the same set that was used in Chicago (a production I saw many times), so it can't be that small.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 12:26am

Actually a friend just told me they 86ed the lift.

I find that to be really stupid on the producer's part being all the advertising clips show Elphaba flying and the first tour has a lift...

Updated On: 3/8/09 at 12:26 AM

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 12:30am

WHAT?! No lift?!

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 12:31am

How does it work without the lift?
Updated On: 3/8/09 at 12:31 AM

[inick122492]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 12:38am

Seriously... thats suck! no lift? what do they do... strings. pft!

[snowskittle]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 12:42am

No, that's incorrect. Ther IS a lift.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 12:49am

Have you seen it?

Someone here posted it, then a friend told me.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 12:53am

Hey, look, there's a gullible!!

[snowskittle]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 12:59am

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200990305078

"Glinda’s pendulum-like bubble machine will still swing across the stage, and the Wicked Witch will soar during the show-stopping first act climax, “Defying Gravity.”

[goodmanK]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 1:00am

reviews anyone?? I know from what the schedule looks like the 2nd national is playing smaller venues..

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 1:02am

well, I'm not seeing this until May when it comes to Norfolk, but I can tell you, that is NOT a small venue

[Silence = Death]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 1:12am

I'm seeing it in Norfolk as well and that place is definitely not small.

I talked to the people who book tours at my university and they told me awhile back that even our stage was too small to book Wicked. This may have changed (it was before this tour and before the economy REALLY started to blow). Our stage isn't amazingly huge or anything but it is a pretty good size.

[goodmanK]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 1:25am

That article did list that Barbara Mann theatre expended to fit phantom and lion king.if it fits those too, it has to be big. Sounds like the 2nd national may be the same size as the 1st, but is just heading to smaller markets...12 trucks..wow

[snowskittle]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 1:29am

From what I've heard the space that the actors work in is the same regardless of the actual size of the theater stage. If the set looked smaller in Florida, it just might be because the stage area itself is much bigger. So the set size stays the same regardless of what theater they're in.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 1:33am

What's with the Melbourne set? I've heard (and seen a few clips of it) and it looks quite different.

[pattilupuppy]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 1:35am

BB Mann Performing Arts Hall in Ft Myers is comprable to most other tier 1 road houses... it is not much smaller than the venues the wicked team is used to seeing on the road.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 1:36am

Doesn't have 1500 some odd seats?

[raggballad2]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 1:58am

i don't think the Melbourne set is that different from the others, except for the green lights (in One Short Day) extend very far out onto the sides of the theatre. And they keep the bridge in Defying Gravity like in LA.

[uncageg]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 3:00am

It will be at the Buell for over a month Stating on Oct.7th. The Buell seats 2,800 people plus.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 3/8/09 at 3:09am

I didn't know they kept the bridge in L.A. I'm assuming that when she goes up the bridge does as well?