LA WIcked.....The Bubble Malfunction that Stopped the Show!

I have seen a lot of shows, but I must say tonight's Wicked performance was beyond anything I have ever seen! During the opening scene of NOMTW after Galinda stepped out of the bubble, all was going well. She then made some comment about "Go up, go up" and the bubble started to rise (which I thought was odd because she needed to get back in it. The Ozian then said the line, "Is it true you were her friend?" She was still on the ground and the bubble was in the air. Off stage left, we heard someone (I think it was Boq) say "Stop". Galinda said, "Did they say stop?" Then she asked again, "Is this a stop?" One of the Ozians had a great ad lib and said (while wringing his hands) "I do not know Miss Galinda." Kendra then looked at the audience, giggled, and said, "Hello everbody, I guess we are going to stop now," and she walked offstage. At that moment the curtain came down. Which left everyone in the audience quite stunned.

Finally after a quick annoucement about technical difficulties, the show resumed after 5 minutes-minus the bubble. The bubble never returned the rest of the show.

My favorite part of the night was when Maria (as Elphaba) had her line in the cornfield..."Well, we can't all come and go by bubble.....and apparently NEITHER CAN YOU!" The audience wildly applauded that newly added line. There were quite a few mike problems tonight also.

Oh well, I guess that's what makes live theater so very exciting!

I was wondering if that was why she didn't get back in it. Maybe there were problems with it earlier. I hope the bubble gets fixed before tomorrow!

What the crap! Thank god Kendra didnt get hurt!! How was the rest of the show? That is REALLY funny though!

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Hey DG2- who was your Elphaba, Jenna or Maria? (ignore- I just saw 'Maria' in your post. :))

That bubble thing is the funniest thing ever! I've never been at a show that called a 'stop, *and* the curtain came back down! (I was at the Pantages for Chicago where they had to start the 2pm matinee at 2:35ish because Patti LaBelle's plane was late, that's about all I got.)

How'd the finale look, w/out the bubble I mean- that means Glinda wasn't watching over them all at the end, right? What'd that look like?

Updated On: 7/22/05 at 05:08 AM

I don't even want to THINK about what could happen if the bubble malfunctions. That baby is WAY up there.

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BTW the bubble does go up all the way for a big portion of no one mourns the wicked.

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Geeze, that sucks, I was gonna go see it JUST for Jenna...bust if she isn't gonna be in it then...

that's friggin amazing haha... i wish i was there to see the bubble fail!

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I can't laugh really loud because my mom is sleeping...but the bubble joke was hilarious! Well, hopefully, I won't see a malfunction tonight!

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The effect isn't cheap at all.

Well I don't know how much they spent on them but they sure look cheap.

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Updated On: 7/22/05 at 01:16 PM

LOL :) thanks for playing along orsomething.

During my first viewing of "Wicked" on Broadway, one of the beds did not make it on stage for 'popular' so Glinda called after it, as if it were a dog, to come out but it didn't move (you could see a part of it on stage and the rest of it was off stage) so the scene was played with just the one bed. The ad-libs for the rest of the scene were very funny indeed.

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