Still Popular: WICKED On Broadway at 20

https://www.vulture.com/article/wicked-broadway-kristin-chenoweth-idina-menzel-interview.html

For Wicked’s 20th birthday, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel reunite with Vulture to talk about high notes, low rumors, and onstage emergencies.

There’s something familiar about watching Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth have a conversation — the way that one of them tends to be a bubbling extrovert, the other more introspective but observant and ready with a joke. After a long day in workshops for their respective musical projects, the two of them slip into the familiar language of longtime collaborators, with inside jokes and catch-ups. You may have seen it onstage before, in a musical called Wicked.

When that show opened on Broadway on October 30, 2003, Chenoweth originated the role of Galinda/Glinda, the perky good witch with hidden insecurities, and Menzel played Elphaba, the outcast turned green wicked witch. The show, based on Gregory Maguire’s prequel to The Wizard of Oz, with a book by Winnie Holzman, songs by Stephen Schwartz, and directed by Joe Mantello, was an expensive, effects-heavy production, coming to New York after a very long development. The reviews were middling to negative. But there was something in its spectacle, its music, and especially that friendship between Glinda and Elphaba, and hordes of fans, especially young women, began making their way to the Gershwin Theatre, and still do. A whole generation of actresses have succeeded them in those parts onstage and will soon do so onscreen with the long-in-the-works film adaptation — and in other musicals clearly inspired by Wicked, most notably Frozen. “I’m always so proud of what Idina and I laid down,” Chenoweth says. “So many women have done so well in those roles. That means that we did our jobs.”

They just released a ton of rear orchestra seats for Monday night, all $317.70 with fees.

Available at the Playbill store:

I cannot get over the Playbill from tonight! It's gorgeous! Will definitley need to track one down. 

Not sure about the 10/30 playbill yet, but both 10/29 bills and the October ‘Wicked 20’ playbill are all available on the Playbill store!