I'm loving the "Wicked" references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
I'm loving the "Wicked" references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Elphie10
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#1I'm loving the "Wicked" references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/13/08 at 8:36pmTornadoes in Kansas? "No good deed goes unpunished?" Anyone else thinks this is less than a coincidence?
#2re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/13/08 at 8:47pm
I bet people on the Off-Topic Board will care.
Or not.
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#2re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/13/08 at 9:14pm
Well... Tornadoes in Kansas isn't really a stretch and the phrase "No good deed goes unpunished" was around waaay before Wicked.
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#3re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/13/08 at 9:14pmThere was also a Guys and Dolls reference..."I got the horse right here..."
#4re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/13/08 at 10:58pmThat I loved!
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
#5re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:11amI really don't think it was a Wicked reference. Tornadoes are common in Kansas which is probably one of the reasons the location was chosen for The Wizard of Oz and the no good deed phrase predates Wicked. It was a coincidence, maybe, but I don't believe it to have been a direct reference.
#6re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:18amwell, im sure it wasnt a direct reference to wicked... although, Betty Suarez Loves wicked... duH! there was a complete episode last season dedicated to it, and the plot lines were woven together.. so although its just coincidence, she does love wicked :)
#7re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:23am
We are all acutely aware. Thanks.^
I am already getting a headache of all the people thinking Stephanie J. Block singing "no good deed goes unpunished" in 9 to 5 is a reference.
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#8re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:27am
its not... i mean, when ppl said it was, i listened, and couldnt even hear it... cuz its not! lol the words may be there, but unless it sounds like it, its not a tribute
and, sorry for posting that if everyone was aware lol, im sure some ppl werent!
#9re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:29amI know it isn't. lol
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#10re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 3:03amDid anyone think there was an intentional "Into the woods" reference when that guy said it to Vanessa Williams?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#11re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 3:20amI didn't...
#12re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 6:02amHow can some guy saying you ready to go "Into the woods" to Vanessa Williams (or whatever it was) be a co-incidence, they must have known it has puns
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#13re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 8:40amOh come on, guys. With the previous Wicked mentions (even scenes from Wicked when Betty and her date went) do you honestly think it was just a coincidence that they picked Kansas to have a tornado and that Betty ends up being called Tornado Girl, complete with t-shirts. You don't give those writers much credit for being clever do you? Of course it was planned!
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#14re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 9:01amIf I were Dolly Parton, I'd flip the lines in "Shine Like the Sun" and give that one to one of the other actors.
#15re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 11:32amI'm annoyed over the Queens accent the character of Justin seems to have much more obviously than he used to. I understand he lives there, and his mother has one too, but for some reason his character is starting to annoy me and I don't want to be annoyed by him because he's a great character.
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#16re: I'm loving the 'Wicked' references in tonight's Ugly Betty...
Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:17pmsee, im starting to love him more, because its not as if they try and make him seem not gay... and he is such a flamer now! i love it! he is so funny now!!!!
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