My Family Thinks Wicked Is Like The Best Show...*Rant*

We saw WICKED twice, which I kind've regret..

And all I'm asking is to see CHARITY again. But they are like refusing. I said to them "We see Wicked twice, but can't rush CHARITY again?"

And my sister is like "There is no comparison Wicked to Charity." And I just feel like : brilliant classic Coleman score, or mediocre Schwartz score. They like all the shows we see, but they love Wicked.


I just don't understand what some people see in WICKED? I would take Charity over it anyday.

They all enjoyed CHARITY the first time. I just guess I'm a little upset because i'm dying to see it again,

Thank you. Rant over.

Updated On: 8/23/05 at 01:59 PM

It might be the fact that we are all very impressed with our first viewing of Applegate. But my family wants to see other shows.

Less attitude, more gratitude. Just be happy your family takes you to shows at all.

I'd prefer Ben Vereen over Christina Applegate any day.

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brilliant singing and acting or pathetic stunt casting of someone in so far over their head in the score/dancing.

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Updated On: 8/23/05 at 02:11 PM

Zone, have you even seen the show? Get over it. Christina is a fantastic actress, with impecciable comedic timing. All the critics and fans agree with that.

Get over it, Wicked isn't the best. Expand your tastes, buddy.

Updated On: 8/23/05 at 02:13 PM

Wicked isn't my favorite show. I have wide tastes. I liek shows the range from Sondheim, to Rogers&Hammerstein to JRB to, brace yourself, Wildhorn. I have a wide taste of musicals. The score could be the best in the world, if there is someone who can't sing up to snuff and can't dance up to snuff playing the TITLE and CENTRAL character, odds are, I won't like it, and that is what happened with Charity. I was thoroughly uninpressed with Applegate and felt the show would have been many times better had Charolette D'Amboise played Charity.

I won't sit and tell you Wicked is the greatest show of all time, cause it isn't nor will i say the score is so phenomenal and the book is amazing, cause both could be better, but the performances given by every single person in that show are spectacular every night.

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Updated On: 8/23/05 at 02:19 PM

and you look like an obsessed fan girl, seriously, five recordings? of the same show?

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I haven't seen Wicked yet but knowing my mother, being the sucker for sets and costumes she is, she'll deem it as one of the best musical productions that ever graced the stage (she already deemed 'Assassins' the worst musical she'd ever seen'.

Again, like Popular said, be grateful at least.

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I can easily see why they would choose Wicked. Your family, no offense, probably doesn't have wide taste in musical theatre. Wicked is a show that any non-loving theatre person can go to and have fun at. Not saying Charity isn't, but Wicked is designed for families.

and you look like an obsessed fan girl, seriously, five recordings? of the same show?

Geez, that's shallow. Every recording made of each show is different - different strengths and weaknesses. Owning more than one can HARDLY be compared to being a screaming, squealing psychotic fangirl.

Sorry, ljay. My family has pretty different taste than I do, as well. Then again, my parents also don't support seeing anything, no matter how much you love it or why, more than once. They think it's a waste of time and money.

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Thank you, Emcee. You see where I am coming from. With owning many recordings, and different taste from your family.

Listen. I don't hate Wicked. I thought it was cute.

But if I had a chance to see a revival of a classic show that had a huge impact on Broadway in the old days, over Wicked. I would take the revival.

Updated On: 8/23/05 at 02:36 PM