For Wicked fans ONLY

#1

For Wicked fans ONLY

Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:26am

I Was just wondering if any of you Wicked fans could share some little known secrets about the show and/or story.

For example:
1. "I Don't think you understand, you're having delusions of granduer" from Defying Gravity is actually "Follow the Yellow Brick Road"
2. She's sitting when she is lifted.
3. Elphaba is actually L.F.B. - the initials of L. Frank Baum.

Anyone else know anything more?

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"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.

#2

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:28am

The melody "UNLIMITED" that is repeated throughout the show is actually "Somewhere over the rainbow", and sorry, but she isn't sitting.She stands on a platform and is raised up.

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Grace: I just gave a quarter to a homeless man. I think it was Johnny Depp.

Updated On: 12/30/04 at 11:28 AM

#3

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:33am

i love, wicked, i really do. i've never seen the show but the obc recording is a staple for me. also, i haven't known about bww for more than 2 weeks and really, there are MILLIONS of threads about this on the message board. i suggest you look there for one.

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#4

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:34am

hi, sorry, i forgot that i was actually on the message board. i'm usually on the ot. sorry about that. but everything else i said still applies!!

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"I'm tough, ambitious, and know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch- ok." ~Madonna

#5

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:50am

Hey! I'm a HUGE Wicked Fan I saw the show 12/19. I've been rtying to figure things out about it and I have most of it. What did you need to know??

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Tell them how I am Defying Gravity!I'm flying high Defying Gravity!And soon I'll match them in renown!And nobody in all of OZ,No wizard that there is or was,Is ever gonna bring me down!!! -Elphaba What?! What are you looking at? Oh, do I have something in my teeth? Okay, let's get this over with. No, I'm not seasick, yes, I've always been green, no, I didn't chew grass as a child.-Elphaba Defying Gravity for the last time 1:09:05 --not the same with out you!--

#6

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:53am

Are you sure shes raised up on a platform??I really thought she was one a string and had that black backdrop behind her.I wasn't sure though.When I first saw it on B'WAY:The American Musical, it did look like platform but seeing it live it looked like strings.

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Tell them how I am Defying Gravity!I'm flying high Defying Gravity!And soon I'll match them in renown!And nobody in all of OZ,No wizard that there is or was,Is ever gonna bring me down!!! -Elphaba What?! What are you looking at? Oh, do I have something in my teeth? Okay, let's get this over with. No, I'm not seasick, yes, I've always been green, no, I didn't chew grass as a child.-Elphaba Defying Gravity for the last time 1:09:05 --not the same with out you!--

#7

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:56am

I won the lotto so I had front row BB seats 1 & 3 on the side. Since it was on the side, you could kinda see how she was being lifted. I couldn't see a platform or anything but I saw that she's connected in the middle of her back by something. But I assume there is a platform since she wouldn't be able to breath or sing ok if she was being hung.

#8

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:57am

she has a mechanical arm around her mid section that raises her, also on a platform that rises so the ozians can come out and scream "bring her down..."

#9

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:59am

Does anybody know how Boq turns into the Tinman in like 5 seconds? I was listening to Chatterbox w/ Cheno last night & she said "It's so funny and really obvious. But my mom said to me 'How did they do that??!?!?!'"

#10

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:59am

right..thanks for clearing that up for me.

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Tell them how I am Defying Gravity!I'm flying high Defying Gravity!And soon I'll match them in renown!And nobody in all of OZ,No wizard that there is or was,Is ever gonna bring me down!!! -Elphaba What?! What are you looking at? Oh, do I have something in my teeth? Okay, let's get this over with. No, I'm not seasick, yes, I've always been green, no, I didn't chew grass as a child.-Elphaba Defying Gravity for the last time 1:09:05 --not the same with out you!--

#11

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:00pm

I've been wondering that...I mean obviously its behind that mirror...but how do they do that?? Anybody??

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Grace: I just gave a quarter to a homeless man. I think it was Johnny Depp.

#12

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:03pm

Boq goes behind the chest. Behind the chest is a stand in, already dressed as the tin man. Boq enters in the chest as the stand in gets in his place in the wheel chair. When it is rolled back out, We see his stand in stand up, while Boq goes to get in his real Tin Man costume. (hence why you never see his face as he stands)

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"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.

Updated On: 12/30/04 at 12:03 PM

#13

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:04pm

Ahhhh makes sense now thx

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Grace: I just gave a quarter to a homeless man. I think it was Johnny Depp.

#14

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:07pm

ohhhh haha the mysteries of broadway!Where did you find that out?

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Tell them how I am Defying Gravity!I'm flying high Defying Gravity!And soon I'll match them in renown!And nobody in all of OZ,No wizard that there is or was,Is ever gonna bring me down!!! -Elphaba What?! What are you looking at? Oh, do I have something in my teeth? Okay, let's get this over with. No, I'm not seasick, yes, I've always been green, no, I didn't chew grass as a child.-Elphaba Defying Gravity for the last time 1:09:05 --not the same with out you!--

#15

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:08pm

ohhhh haha the mysteries of broadway!Where did you find that out?

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Tell them how I am Defying Gravity!I'm flying high Defying Gravity!And soon I'll match them in renown!And nobody in all of OZ,No wizard that there is or was,Is ever gonna bring me down!!! -Elphaba What?! What are you looking at? Oh, do I have something in my teeth? Okay, let's get this over with. No, I'm not seasick, yes, I've always been green, no, I didn't chew grass as a child.-Elphaba Defying Gravity for the last time 1:09:05 --not the same with out you!--

#16

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:09pm

The last time I saw it, I specifically watched everything that went on. It was obvious that it was not Christopher Fitzgerald who stood up, because he was much taller, and his lip-synching was "off"

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"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.

#17

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:16pm

oh wow now I REALLY need to go see it again

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Tell them how I am Defying Gravity!I'm flying high Defying Gravity!And soon I'll match them in renown!And nobody in all of OZ,No wizard that there is or was,Is ever gonna bring me down!!! -Elphaba What?! What are you looking at? Oh, do I have something in my teeth? Okay, let's get this over with. No, I'm not seasick, yes, I've always been green, no, I didn't chew grass as a child.-Elphaba Defying Gravity for the last time 1:09:05 --not the same with out you!--

#18

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:16pm

nevermind...

Updated On: 12/30/04 at 12:16 PM

#19

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:18pm

nevermind twice

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"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.

Updated On: 12/30/04 at 12:18 PM

#20

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 3:21pm

I am pretty sure I figured out the flying thing when I went on Tuesday....
Idina climbs into a box thing with a platform. The skirt you see is not really what she is wearing, but is a skirt attached to the box. For one thing, you don't see her feet, which you should be able to do, and her upper body is moving while her bottom half isn't, and her torso looks a bit disconnected from her "skirt." Hope that makes sense.

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Wishes come true, not free.

#21

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 3:24pm

She's definitely standing on a platform. Completely ruins the effect, but it's still cool.

#22

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 3:26pm

yeah, something is around her waste - you can see it from the sides...

also, she said in an interview and motioned it at the tonys, tthat she has something around her waste - which is why she can't have a baby any time soon...

#23

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:29pm

If she IS standing on a platform, That huge skirt that is around her obviously hides it right??? But i have a feeling she isn't standing on anything. I'll have to ask someone who works for the show. I really wanna clear this up! lol

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I LOVE SHOSHANA BEAN.

#24

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:29pm

If she IS standing on a platform, That huge skirt that is around her obviously hides it right??? But i have a feeling she isn't standing on anything. I'll have to ask someone who works for the show. I really wanna clear this up! lol

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I LOVE SHOSHANA BEAN.

#25

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Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:32pm

I have an idea of how we can clear it up..We can write to Idina at the gershwin I've written to her once already and she writes back..well someone writes back haha but we could..I could write to her and ask

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Tell them how I am Defying Gravity!I'm flying high Defying Gravity!And soon I'll match them in renown!And nobody in all of OZ,No wizard that there is or was,Is ever gonna bring me down!!! -Elphaba What?! What are you looking at? Oh, do I have something in my teeth? Okay, let's get this over with. No, I'm not seasick, yes, I've always been green, no, I didn't chew grass as a child.-Elphaba Defying Gravity for the last time 1:09:05 --not the same with out you!--