Congratulations Wicked!
Congratulations Wicked!
#1Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 3:36pmCongratulations on a wicked awesome 5 years on Broadway!
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#2re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 3:42pmI can't believe it's been five years already. My, how does the time fly.
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#2re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 4:11pmI can't wait to see all the **** they do for the 10th anniversary. Green fireworks over Times Square for 24 hours?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#3re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 5:42pmCongratulations Wicked!
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
#4re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 5:45pm
Why do I get this sensation that Wicked will probably be running for decades and decades until Elphaba looks like this? 
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Broadwaynerd101
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/6/08
#5re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 5:52pm
But, Idina already DOES look like that.
HA! 5 years is nothing. It won't make 10.
#6re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 5:52pmPeople have known for a long time Wicked is a megahit 'musical blockbuster' I don't know why we have to congratulate it - It really seems just like a big marketing exercise.
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ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#7re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 6:05pmA good marketing "scheme" one, too. The show is really the first cultural phenomenon from the musical market since The Lion King. Cats, Les Mis, and Phantom all came out in succession, Lion King came a decade later, and Wicked in the 00s.
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#8re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 6:13pm
HA! 5 years is nothing. It won't make 10.
You're delusional if you don't think it's going to make it ten years.
It really seems just like a big marketing exercise.
Of course it is, and as someone pointed out, a darn good one, too. It keeps the show in the news. The marketing people behind this show have been geniuses. They've managed to aggressively market the tweens (not all that easy, as Legally Blonde saw), while at the same time, making it an appealing show to teens, young adults, adults, and older folks.
#9re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 6:51pm
"But, Idina already DOES look like that."
Ha ha ouch, that was mean :P
"HA! 5 years is nothing. It won't make 10."
I won't be too sure if I were you, I mean have you seen the fan girls? And in 5 yrs those teens will be in early adulthood, which can only mean......
EVEN HIGHER PURCHASING POWER.
In Soviet Russia, Wicked hates you too!
Broadwaynerd101
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/6/08
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#11re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 7:58pm
Broadwaynerd's not good, he's not nice, he's just right.
He's the witch, he's what no one believes, he's the witch.
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#12re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 8:41pm
Broadwaynerd is Elphaba?
Well, this explains an awful lot...
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#13re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 8:44pm
Say what you will about WICKED.
We should all be grateful that a mostly good show by a seasoned composer has been such a success and is introducing musical theatre to kids all over the world.
That is a real gift.
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-Kad
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-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
bwayfan9
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/08
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#15re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 9:18pm
Word to WBAF.
Congrats to WICKED! Happy anniversary and many more!
#16re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 9:23pmCongratulations, WICKED. You're not the best thing ever, but you're pretty good.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#17re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 9:30pmWicked is what got me on BWW and really into Broadway. Congrats to the show!
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
Broadwaynerd101
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/6/08
#18re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 9:30pm
Schmergy, I'm not Elphaba. I'm the Piragua guy!!!
DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#19re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 9:31pmCongradulotions on the first 5 years and here's to many more years.
Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!
yankees1253
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/07
#20re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 9:51pm
yes congrats to wicked from the current cast to former cast members and the people who work behind the scenes. i wish them another 5 years, which i think they will do. again dancing thru life for five years and top of the box office, that is accompishment.
#21re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 10/30/08 at 10:48pmwahoo congrats! I think that most shows that go over five years usually do pretty darn well for awile. Because for 5 or 6 years they have built a fan base and soon, as someone else mentioned, they have kids and take them to the show, they bring relatives, they go for birthdays. so I see a bright future for this show.
#22re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 11/1/08 at 7:32am
I really enjoyed the show. It can last another five years easily. On Broadway? Well, my only problem is that it might be preventing something new to come along? Yet it is successful and I know it will continue to make money as new fans find out how much fun it is.
I can't wait to see it sit down in San Francisco. It's such a treat and at least I know it is something I will enjoy seeing again.
Congratulations. Thanks for such an entertaining and thought provoking show!
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#23re: Congratulations Wicked!
Posted: 11/1/08 at 8:40am
Broadwaynerd, I was making a reference to a line from "Last Midnight" in "Into the Woods".
Philistine.
P.S. In the words of Eliseo Roman, "I...am...Piragua Guy. OH-KAY?"
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Broadwaynerd101
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