Saw Wicked for the first time today

[Born2cthelightsofbway]

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.

Updated On: 12/1/04 at 08:30 PM

[jmaclover]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:32pm

CONGRATULOTIONS

Updated On: 12/1/04 at 08:32 PM

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:32pm

No mention of Mr. Hearn?

Psh.

[luvWICKED416]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:33pm

do you mean "congratulotions????"
haha

[jmaclover]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:36pm

LOL

the mest me up,

I'm gonna fix it - so these two posts will look weird!

[Born2cthelightsofbway]

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?

[jmaclover]

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.

[Born2cthelightsofbway]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:40pm

I know he is really tiny.

[luvWICKED416]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:41pm

Yeah, 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]

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.

[Swiftynifty15]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:47pm

Any understudies today?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 8:49pm

Does 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.

[jmaclover]

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.

[Born2cthelightsofbway]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:08pm

No, there were no understudies.

[kimi]

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!!

[Auggie27]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:10pm

Yeah, 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.

[TonyInATL]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:51pm

Updated On: 1/17/05 at 09:51 PM

[insomniak]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 9:54pm

When's Idina leaving for the Rent movie? She's got some rehearsing to do. Updated On: 12/1/04 at 09:54 PM

[BEKA531]

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]

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!

[kim1061]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 10:05pm

aww yay im glad you had fun!
your so lucky you got to see idina!!

[TonyInATL]

Posted: 12/1/04 at 10:43pm

Updated On: 1/17/05 at 10:43 PM

[LilElphaba]

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

[kim1061]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:52pm

i wish i could at least see her once...