Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

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Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/12/12 at 6:45pm

The show is virtually a sell out at one of Broadways biggest houses and this has been the case for 9 years, with tickets selling at full price with a average ticket costing $138.81.

Successful sit down in:

Chicago - which run at the Oriental for nearly 4 years

Los Angeles - which played the Pantages for 2 years

San Francisco - which played the Orpheum for nearly 2 years

2 national tours which I gather are going very strong.

London West End productions is still playing strong at the Victoria Apollo for coming up to 6 years.

Successful International productions have played Japan, Germany, Australia, Singapore and now South Korea.

#2

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/12/12 at 6:49pm

You're kidding...right?

#3

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/12/12 at 7:13pm

Phantom Of The Opera
The Lion King
Le Miz
Miss Saigon
Cats

#4

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/12/12 at 7:56pm

The show doesn't sell out in London anymore. The upper level is at best half full sometimes even on Saturdays. Give it another ten years until it can move into "biggest hit ever" territory.

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Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/12/12 at 8:11pm

I agree that WICKED is a huge hit all over the world. But I definitley don't think that it the biggest hit ever. Le Miz and Phantom are definitely bigger hits. But it is still a fabulous production.

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#6

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/12/12 at 8:27pm

^^^ What BwayEqs said

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#7

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/12/12 at 8:51pm

I'm sorry, Le Miz? You must mean Les Misèrables.

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Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/12/12 at 9:12pm

If we're being pedantic (on here? really?), the e has an accent aigu, not an accent grave...

#9

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/12/12 at 9:26pm

I'd say Phantom is the biggest hit ever. 24 years on Broadway and 26 years on the West End.

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Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/12/12 at 11:30pm

It is hard to believe that it will be celebrating it's 10th anniversary a year from October.

#11

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 12:32am

Mamma Mia even got a movie.

#12

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 3:48am

"If we're being pedantic (on here? really?), the e has an accent aigu, not an accent grave..."

You're right. I wish my keyboard had the ability to type the other. Just..."Le Miz"? Come on...

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Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 4:51am

The Phantom of the Opera
The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Chicago
Les Miserables
Cats
A Chorus Line

And many more musicals are much better known:
Oklahoma!
My Fair Lady
Fiddler on the Roof
Guys and Dolls
The King and I
West Side Story

The songs have never been particularly famous and the show has never left much of an impression on the zeitgeist as some of the others shows listed above

#14

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 7:45am

The west end production hasn't been a sell out for years, it does well but I've seen it when its been half empty

Updated On: 7/13/12 at 07:45 AM

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Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 8:07am

The broadway production is a sell out and can do upto $2m a week.

Regarding the West End, Wicked is playing a massive theatre, which I would say is 400 seats bigger than its counterpart the Gershwin on Broadway.

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Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 8:15am

Mamma Mia even got a movie.

Read the articles, 'cuz WICKED is getting a movie too.

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#17

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 8:18am

Rock of Ages got a movie too. The existence of a movie is not a sign of a mega hit

#18

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 8:22am

But the rock of ages movie sucked.

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#19

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 8:26am

Wicked is the biggest musical for the past decade, or even two I would say.

Ever though, it has a while to go yet, Phantom, Miz, Lion King... Are way out in front and running strong still.

I think the movie of Wicked, it will happen I think it's safe to say, if done well, well guarantee it's Broadway and West End run for another 10 years.

#20

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 9:04am

^ How is Wicked the biggest musical of maybe the past two decades, and yet it's not at the level of Lion King, which has come out in the past two decades?

#21

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 9:19am

^ Becuase, for one, you can't really name a big star that has been in LION KING. WICKED, however, has had Kristin Chenoweth, Joel Grey, Etc.....

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#22

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 9:22am

^ I know that. I was referring to the wording of the previous comment, linking Lion King with Phantom and Les Miserables, but saying that Wicked is the biggest musical potentially of the past two decades. Lion King opened in the past two decades.

#23

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 10:34am

I think as far as stage productions you have to think Les Miserable or Phantom with maybe Lion King right up there. The real test will be where it is in 10 or 20 years. A hit movie would enhance it tremendously. It has a Platinum Cast Recording- which is good for a stage show but a hit movie might generate 10 million or more sales of the soundtrack- you might even throw a hit single up the charts.

#24

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 10:49am

Jordan Catalano said that the WICKED movie will include a brand new score written by Randy Newman. I don't know if he was just being a schmuck or if this is true, but if it is true, I think a new score will definitley increase sales. I know I would definitley buy it.

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#25

Has There Been A Bigger Hit Than Wicked?

Posted: 7/13/12 at 10:54am

Yeah, pretty sure he was just being clever.