I made a return visit to Oz last night! First of all, it is worth noting that this show has held up incredibly well over its 13 year run. It shows no sign of aging or looking tired as so many long-running shows do. Now, onto what everyone is probably wondering about - Sheryl Lee Ralph. WOW. I have seen Wicked countless times, and I have never seen an actress play Madame Morrible with such feistiness and fierceness. She chews the set up and down, eats it, spits it out, then does it all over again a few times over the course of the evening, and it WORKS! This is a role I have always really wanted to see an actress sink her teeth into and just have fun with it, and that is exactly what Sheryl Lee Ralph does. She's over the top, hilarious, and just outright hysterical and some points. If there was a ever a time to go back and revisit Wicked, this is it!
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