SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
bwayfan3
Broadway Star Joined: 10/11/04
#0SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:31pmI was curious if anyone knew how exactly the show changed from the try-out in San Francisco to the Broadway version. I've heard Elphaba's part changed, but how?
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#1re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:33pm
One of the mega changes was the replacement of the song "Which Way To The Party" with "Dancing Through Life"
Plot-wise, the show was somewhat closer to the original novel as well
Along with the usual lyric changes and cut reprises
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:46pmDidnt see it, even though I live in the area. Alot of my friends who have seen both, have said the SF Production was better than the NYC. Having heard audios, i agree. The show was much much longer. Different costumes/wigs. (Glinda's popular dress was blue etc)
#3re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:48pmHmm, maybe I saw it late in the SF run then, because "Dancing Through Life" was definitely in there, as was Galinda's pink dress for Popular. I have to admit that I haven't seen the NY production yet, but having heard the recordings for both I have to say I enjoyed the SF one better.
#4re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 6:50pmanyone know anywhere i might be able to listen to "which way to the party"?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#5re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:45pmTheres a short clip of it on the Broadway the American Musical DVD Wicked special.
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#6re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:48pmWickedRocks-That is a CUTE pic!Is it you?
#7re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:52pmlol that's Shoshana Bean
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#8re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:57pm
Haha. Nope it Bean-dip as I like to call her. LOL...thanks for the compliment anyway. 
#9re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:58pm
So there is like nothing about SF Wicked online?
Hmm, I could have sworn the last time this question was asked there wasn't anything either. But in all seriousness, are there any websites or anything?
basketcase
Featured Actor Joined: 4/19/04
#10re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:58pm
I've seen the show in both SF and NY and I would have to disagree with whoever said that the SF preview was better. There were certainly parts I liked more, such as the extended dialog right before Defying Gravity, along with the lyrics changes in As Long As You're Mine, but for the most part, the final product is much much better. The second act of the SF run was spotty at best, there were lots of things that weren't explained well, such as Elphaba's relationship to the Wizard (without giving away too much, although it seems as if nearly this entire board has seen the show), it also dragged and just didn't seem to flow.
I am also almost positive that Galinda's dress was pink during Popular when I saw it too...although I know I caught it during its last week in San Francisco. And while I still don't really care for Dancing Through Life, it is a much better song than Which Way Is The Party...not to mention it's staged much better and fits into the show more as a whole. Which Way To The Party just seemed to me like a "hey, we should probably give Fiyero a solo somewhere...let's throw this in".
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#11re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:02pm
(A picture from the SF production...Galinda's dress is blue)
#12re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:06pmwow i think i've seen that a lot of times and always thought it was pink for some reason. I'm not colorblind but i swear it was pink. where did you get the picture?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#13re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:07pm
www.wickedonbroadway.net Updated On: 1/1/05 at 08:07 PM
#15re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:11pmhahaa Littlefish!
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#16re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:13pm
Dont remember that dress on Mme Morrible on Bway...
SF SONG LIST:
Act One
No One Mourns the Wicked - Glinda and Citizens of Oz
Dear Old Shiz - Students
The Wizard and I - Morrible and Elphaba
What is This Feeling? - Glinda, Elphaba, and Students
Which Way is the Party? / We Deserve Each Other - Fiyero, Glinda, Boq, Nessarose, Elphaba, and Students
Popular - Glinda
I'm Not That Girl - Elphaba
Dear Old Shiz (reprise) - Mourners
The Wizard and I (reprise) - Elphaba
One Short Day - Elphaba, Glinda, and Denizens of the Emerald City
A Sentimental Man / The Chance to Fly - The Wizard, Elphaba, Morrible, and Glinda
Defying Gravity - Elphaba, Glinda, Guards, and Citizens of Oz
Act Two
Thank Goodness / I Couldn't Be Happier - Revelers, Morrible, and Glinda
We Deserve Each Other (reprise) - surprise! (see the show)
Wonderful - The Wizard and Elphaba
I'm Not That Girl (reprise) - Glinda
As Long As You're Mine - Elphaba and Fiyero
No Good Deed - Elphaba
March of the Witch Hunters - Boq and Citizens of Oz
For Good - Glinda and Elphaba
No One Mourns the Wicked (reprise) - Citizens of Oz
A Sentimental Man (reprise) - The Wizard
Finale - Company
Dr Dillamond was John Horton
The Wizard was Robert Morse
Boq was played by Kirk McDonald
http://www.wickedonbroadway.net/lookinsideSFplaybill.html
Its a link to look inside the SF Playbill...
Also on www.wickedonbroadway.net, if you click San Fran. on the left side of the screen, theres pictures and stuff.
PS: In the song list, for We Deserve Eachother reprise, it says "surprise". Not sure who sung this in SF. Maybe Boq and Nessa??
Updated On: 1/1/05 at 08:13 PM
#17re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:13pmIts like the same exact dress only blue. I think the pink is better, it suits her character more.
bwayfan3
Broadway Star Joined: 10/11/04
#18re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:15pm
I read somewhere (I can't remember where) that in between SF and NY, Elphaba's part got much bigger or I guess that her importance in the story seemd to edge out Glinda's. I guess that's specifically what I was intending with my initial question. Is this true? Anybody know any backstory about this
And the blue dress vs. the pink dress thing. If Dancing through Life wasn't initially part of the show, I guess the black is this year's pink line was incorporated later and thus a costume change needed
#19re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:19pm
www.wickedonbroadway.net is like the Wicked Nerd's website to heaven and happiness.
It has like everything...
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#20re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:19pm
bwayfan: I read that somewhere too. Galinda was a much larger role so they expanded Elphaba's part and took Galinda's down a notch.
Another difference: Elphabas u/s was Stephanie Block who left to do TBFO (on Bway, it, obviously, was Eden)
#21re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:21pm
yea that site has everything.
That dress idina has on is different as well.
bwayfan3
Broadway Star Joined: 10/11/04
#22re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:25pmI'm guesing from that dear old shiz reprise noted in the song list sung by "mourners", that like the book Dr. Dillamond is killed?
#23re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:32pm
For some reason, the graphics on the Broadway Wicked site haven't been working for me for a coupld of weeks now.
What is that all about?
#24re: SF Wicked vs. NY Wicked
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:41pm
Something interesting I've noticed. Between SF & Broadway, there have been a ton of Glinda's (mostly Standy By/ Understudy).
Kristin Chenoweth
Melissa Bell Chait
Laura Bell Bundy
Jennifer Laura Thompson
Melissa Fahn
Megan Hilty
I know all of those went on as Glinda. But I'm not sure about Melissa Fahn. Doe's anyone know if Melissa Fahn has ever went on as Glinda? I don't know if this is the thread for this. But doe's anyone know about Melissa Fahn??
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