Saw Wicked for the first time today
Saw Wicked for the first time today
Born2cthelightsofbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/04
#0Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:30pm
Well, I finally got to see Wicked today, I'm glad to say. I had been trying to get tickets for months but was not able too. Finally I begged my mom to do cancellation, but we were lucky. We called ticketmaster last night for tickets to todays matinee, and got front mezz, front row dead center!
I loved the show. Although some of the songs are not that memorable, the other songs make up for it. I love Defying Gravity, popular, and for good. I also love as long as you're mine. I have had the cd for months and I have memorized it all, I also read the book and enjoyed it a lot.
I thought that the sets and design were really cool. The flying of the monkeys was really cool. Idinia Menzel was AMAZING! I now understand why she won the tony. She has sucha great powerful voice, it brings down the house. She is also really beautiful and when she is onstage you can't help but just look at her. Her acting was great too. You could really feel her pain in some scenes.
Jennifer Laura was really great too. After listening to Kristen I thought it was would hard to be that good, but she had a great voice. She was so funny in popular. And she was just so cute. When she sang the operatic parts she sounded amazing.
The rest of the cast was also really good. Fiyero was good, Madame Morrible, Boq, Nessa, Dr. Dillamond, everyone was great! I loved it so much. I hope to see it again soon, but tickets are impossible to come by.
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
Updated On: 12/1/04 at 08:30 PM
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#1re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:32pmCONGRATULOTIONS
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
Updated On: 12/1/04 at 08:32 PM
#2re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:32pm
No mention of Mr. Hearn?
Psh.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
luvWICKED416
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/04
#3re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:33pm
do you mean "congratulotions????"
haha
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#4re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:36pm
LOL
the mest me up,
I'm gonna fix it - so these two posts will look weird!
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
Born2cthelightsofbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/04
#5re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:37pm
OMG HOW COULD I FORGET Mr. Hearn? Sorry, he was really great and lived up to every excpectation that i had. when he came out right away people started clapping. that made me happy for him. He doesn't get enough recognition, he is really great. I can't compare him to Joel Grey since I did nto see him, but he very good.
CONGRATULIONS!- is that supposed to be sarcastic?
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#6re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:39pm
LOL,
Born2cthelights - it wasn't sarcastic. It was a typo - I fixed it though lol!
The one thing that Joel Grey had for him that was really funny was his height. When he walks out from behind the mask it is so funny - he's about KC's height.
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
Born2cthelightsofbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/04
#7re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:40pmI know he is really tiny.
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
luvWICKED416
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/04
#8re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:41pmYeah, Joel was amazing in that role. I was lucky enough to see him once before he got sick/left. I'm impressed with Gearge though... it works for him because he's older. That's what Sean has against him....
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#9re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:44pm
Yeah but Sean had the dancing and singing down! And the bald head worked so well with the ending I think.
Is it me, or does Sean look a lot like the actual mask?
I think he should be the next Wizard.
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
Swiftynifty15
Broadway Star Joined: 9/18/04
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#11re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:49pmDoes Hearn make a bigger impression, particularly in the scene with Elphaba in act two? I love Grey, a legend, and yeah, I get it -- the role is a nebbish, he's a little nothin' salesman, yeah, I understand -- but he seemed to phone it in and barely BE there. I always thought Mantello mis-handled -- rushing -- the Elphaba/Wizard relationship. The plot-driven sequence leading to Defying Gravity with the monkeys sprouting wings needs to provoke life-altering change in Elphaba. But it races by so fast, you barely absorb it. If the Wizard were played more powerfully--more truly threatened by what Elphaba represents to his power base--the whole show would be strengthened. And I never understand why they turn their backs on each other so easily.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#12re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:53pm
Elphaba is an animal rights activist - she just found out the Wizrd wants the monkeys to spy and end any animal uprisings.
I agree, it goes by fast - but I think it should. I think a stronger actor, though, could make the scene really good. At the beginning, we like the Wizard - cause we know him from the Wizard of Oz - by the end of the scene we are supposed to be angry at the wizard. You just can't hate Joel Grey!
Sean and George (i'm sure) act that part out so well.
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
Born2cthelightsofbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/04
#13re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:08pmNo, there were no understudies.
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
#14re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:10pm
I'm really going to have to go see it! Like many many many musicals, I know the music very well, but haven't seen it.. *cries*
I can't believe we open for Wizard of Oz TOMORROW...but hey, it's easy enough...can't wait for my next one though - West Side Story!!
Hold my hand and we're halfway there, hold my hand and I'll take you there, somehow, some day...
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#15re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:10pmYeah, I know about the animal rights issue informing the scene (and I read the Maguire book, so I REALLY know...) My problem is the real-time aspect of the character fully absorbing the deceit, Morible's deception, and then reacting. Please, I'm a fan of the material, not one of the board's infamous detractors. The 2nd act scene suffers from a lack of tension. It would be stronger if they circled, sizing one another up, so that the scene has more of an 'arc' before they're semi-bonding (albeit temporarily). After all, the Wizard had turned the entire COUNTRY against this woman. Yet when she shows up, he barely registers it. It's a directorial focus thing, in my opinion, that mars the moment-by-moment reality, and minimizes some of the stakes. This is a damned good story--I wish Mantello trusted some of its critical turns more.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
TonyInATL
Stand-by Joined: 8/28/04
#16re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:51pmUpdated On: 1/17/05 at 09:51 PM
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#17re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:54pmWhen's Idina leaving for the Rent movie? She's got some rehearsing to do. Updated On: 12/1/04 at 09:54 PM
BEKA531
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#18re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:56pm
i was wondering the same thing... it better be after 1/1 - cause i wanna see her again 
jmaclover
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#19re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 10:03pm
AUggie
- yeah, I figured you know the story. I do think that it happens to fast. Though the 100th time I saw it, lol, it's hard to seperate what a newcomer sees from what I see always being around it!
"I've often said I should put sweets in my chair - they'd spend less time on my a** that way....." ~F.W.B.
#20re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 10:05pm
aww yay im glad you had fun!
your so lucky you got to see idina!!
A dancer might dream to see her name in lights and mean it,
but all she really dreams is to make someone
else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer.
And that is so beautiful-Anonymous
TonyInATL
Stand-by Joined: 8/28/04
#21re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/1/04 at 10:43pmUpdated On: 1/17/05 at 10:43 PM
LilElphaba
Broadway Star Joined: 10/20/04
#22re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/4/04 at 11:48am
She's leaving January 9th-- good thing im going to see wicked again because i wanted to see 1 of her last shows. im going back Jan 5th
XOXO
Elphie
I LOVE SHOSHANA BEAN.
#23re: Saw Wicked for the first time today
Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:52pmi wish i could at least see her once...
A dancer might dream to see her name in lights and mean it,
but all she really dreams is to make someone
else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer.
And that is so beautiful-Anonymous
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