'Let It Go' in Wicked

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'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 11:20am

Hi

I saw the UK tour production of Wicked last night in Edinburgh, it was excellent! However, I noticed right before For Good Glinda tells Elphaba to 'Let It Go'. Obviously the other four times I've seen this show I've never noticed that before due it they being pre Frozen. It got an appreciative laugh from the audience. Obviously there has been many comparences between Elsa and Elphaba. Just wondering if the NYC and/or West End audiences are also picking this up and giving a knowing laugh?!

Updated On: 1/6/15 at 11:20 AM

'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 11:38am

It's just a coincidence. That bit is entirely after-the-fact and unrelated to each other. There have been a number of interviews with Frozen's songwriters, and Wicked was never mentioned; Kristen Anderson-Lopez is credited to have found the "let it go" hook by herself. NOW audiences hearing it in Wicked may laugh, but it's just a coincidence (not to mention a pretty common phrase by itself before the film).

On the other hand, the lyrics for "Some Other Me" in IF/THEN may very well have been planted.

#BoycottTrumplikePattiMurin

Updated On: 1/6/15 at 11:38 AM

'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 11:51am

Of course it's a coincidence... I was just wondering if other audiences are connecting the two the same way the audience I was with last night did!

Updated On: 1/6/15 at 11:51 AM

'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 12:06pm

Haven't audiences always laughed at Glinda's dialogue about the shoes? (How do you not notice the actual dialogue four times? It was comedic before Frozen.) Rather, it's not like people can tease apart the level of Frozen effect on that comedic bit, but I don't doubt there is some post-viewer knowledge going on.

#BoycottTrumplikePattiMurin

Updated On: 1/6/15 at 12:06 PM

'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 12:38pm

This is similar but less immediately obvious to the moment when James Earl Jones hd to mention "the dark side" in his show last year.

'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 12:51pm

Audiences definitely chuckle at it now.

I saw the very comedic Jenni Barber as Glinda this summer and she actually kind of sang the "let it go" line and it got a good laugh. More recently Tiffany Haas just said it, but it's always said very boldly, and people still laughed.

I like a good rhyme more than a good time

'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 3:22pm

I don't think it's because of Frozen. Having by chance seen the show five times all before Frozen came out, audiences always laughed at that line.

"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire

'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 3:25pm

Audiences have always chuckled at that line when I've seem it,before frozen

'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 3:30pm

These things do sometimes just happen. When Michael Cerveris left Titanic for Hedwig, there were already lines about the Titanic survivors staying in that hotel. The biggest inadverdant laugh he got (also in the script) was when he had to say "Tommy? Tommy, can you hear me?"

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'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 3:48pm

Thanks for the pre-Frozen insight. It's tension-breaking line and a good Glinda line so it makes sense it would get a laugh. Jenni Barber definitely sang it to the Frozen tune which was funny and I wondered if that was a regular thing.

I like a good rhyme more than a good time

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'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 3:52pm

They also joke about it in The Lion King. I think it's Pumba who draws out the line "Let It Go" in a sing songy way. Not sure if they did it that way before but the crowed definitely acknowledges it.

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Posted: 1/6/15 at 4:03pm

Oh, the phrase exists in Lion King too. It'd be interesting to see before/after-Frozen performances and how much the performers "play up" a retroactive pop culture moment, which may not be appropriate for every show (definitely appropriate for Wicked re:Menzel, but the dialogue was originally funny anyway). Those moments that are already written into a show (James Earl Jones, some moments in IF/THEN, etc.) can still be funny, but I would guess the retroactive references like this are quite rare.

#BoycottTrumplikePattiMurin

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Posted: 1/6/15 at 5:12pm

I remember watching the Encores! Whistle (almost 5 years ago now, boy!), and Hapgood (Raul Esparza) said the phrase "Being Alive" (if I remember correctly), and the audience gave a bit of response Thought that was a nice moment.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

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'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 7:46pm

It's definitely coincidence, that line has always gotten a laugh, and I doubt non theatre die hards ,which we often forget is most of the audience, draw the parallel. It's kind of an obscure parallel actually.

I remember Stephanie J. Block saying "No good deed goes unpunished" in 9 to 5.

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'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/6/15 at 10:54pm

Coincidentally or not, the identical or similar lines frequently appear in different shows. "Make your choice" (I think in the same words) appears in both Phantom and Beauty and the Beast, in similar circumstances, except that, in BATB, the female protag must choose between the Beast and her father, rather than between the Phantom and another suitor. "You try my patience" in POTO becomes something similar in BATB, again in similar circumstances. Also, there's a magic mirror in both. When I saw BATB last summer, I decided that it and Phantom are two versions of the same story.

In light of the number of crossover cast members between POTO and Les Miz and the number of people who link the two shows in their minds (some non-theater people going so far as to insist ALW wrote Les Miz!), I'm always amused by the line "Phantom faces at the window" in Les Miz. I'm sure that, in this case, it's a coincidence.

Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.

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Posted: 1/7/15 at 12:39am

When Sierra Boggess (Love Never Dies) played Fantine in Les Mis, she had to sing "I dreamed that love would never die." I wonder if that ever got a reaction?

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Posted: 1/7/15 at 1:41am

^ Yes, the audience rolled their eyes so far back they all looked like zombies.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

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'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/7/15 at 9:15am

Stephanie J Block swore that the no good deed line predated her being attached to the project

And for the record There is a let it go moment in Rock of Ages that has gotten more of a laugh this last year since the song went so viral.

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'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/7/15 at 9:20am

"^ Yes, the audience rolled their eyes so far back they all looked like zombies."

Blaxx, you made me spit out my captain crunch! HAHA

Updated On: 1/7/15 at 09:20 AM

#20

'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/7/15 at 10:10am

"Let It Go" has always been in Wicked. It's called "Defying Gravity".

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'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/7/15 at 11:58am

I remember laughing a lot at Cheno's delivery of "Let it go!" way back ten years before "Frozen" came out. In fact, it was kind of a takeaway line for me. I can remember going shopping and lusting over some very expensive footwear several times after that and thinking, "They're just shoes! Let it go."

Just remembering you've had an "and" When you're back to "or" Makes the "or" mean more than it did before

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'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/19/15 at 7:55pm

Not Broadway I know, but I saw Wicked in London last September, and Savannah Stevenson flat out played it for laughs and sang "Let it Go", albeit fairly softly. The audience lapped it up!

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'Let It Go' in Wicked

Posted: 1/19/15 at 8:04pm

In the Rent film, Idina screams, "Let it go" at the audience during her "Over the Moon" performance when she's trying to get everyone to moo.

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