Okay you guys are all going to kill me for this one but Wicked. Let me explain, it's not Wicked itself, but it is what brought me to the world of Broadway. When I was a little kid my grandma would take me to see a play almoust every other weekend. I loved going to the theater, but I never would take the time to read about the shows, or look up their history. I really loved theater, and it was one of the best things in my life, and I kinda/sorta knew what broadway was but I never really really really knew exactly what it was. I thinking at first it was one theater, then not understanding how long a show would run on broadway. Anyways flash foward to 2002, I was with my mom and we were talking to Marc Platt at a Bar Mitzvah. The Platt's and my family had always been family friends, and I knew he did movies, but I never really paid attention to it. So, we were talking with him and asked what his newest project was and he told us Wicked, and then he told us what it was about etc. When I got home, my mom asked me to look it up, after a while, I finally got around to it. From then on, I would check up on Wicked regularly, when Opening Night came, I was at my house sitting hitting the refresh button on the keyboard. Soon after I started checking out Broadway.com then Playbill.com and then Broadwayworld.com. Wicked introduced me to a wonderful world, that I never knew existed. Now I don't think that Wicked is really all that good, but it is the story behind it that changed my life, forever.
Film: By far, Billy Elliot
Updated On: 5/25/06 at 01:26 AM
