This Wicked Spoof makes me mad- Page 4

[Pinguin]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 3:24am

Heck, it had me at "The show starts with a dissonant song as people jump around in what is apparently 'choreography.'"

UGH CILENTO.

[Urban]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 6:00am

You know the cynic in me never even picked up on the problem involving the Tin Man until now. Gosh! I thought I was really snarky at nitpicking all the plotholes, but that just went over my head.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 6:25am

I must have missed someething because it went from makes you mad to being in your signature, morebroadwayplease. i find it fricken hilarious, even though im a wicked fan.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 6:34am

You know what the pathetic thing about these are? Obviously these people have seen the show enough to re-tell it. lol.

[Di2]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 9:00am

Wicked is the lamest, most idiotic show out there. I cannot believe so many of you are frighteningly obsessed by it. It's so weird.

This abridged version was dead on.

[bella cantato]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 9:57am

I adore Wicked, but I loooooved the bway abridged version. As much as I love the show, I know it has a lot of holes in it!!

However, I thought the DRS was totally lame and simply a bunch of re-used jokes from the other shows. I mean it's one thing if there are holes in a show and you poke fun at them, and it's another if you poke at a solid part of the show. I mean it's just not humerous. Like in DRS when he pokes fun at the humor being dumb... well I laughed until I cried at that show, so I just can't find it very funny. However some of the other ones are really good. I loved Fiddler on the Roof and Brooklyn as well.

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 10:54am

Let me elaborate on my use of the word "lame". I'm a big fan of snark, and it doesn't bother me that there's a negative lean on one of my favorite shows. After all, no show is perfect.

All I'm saying is that I don't think it's particularly well-written. I'm a huge fan of TWoP, and I LOVE when they mock my favorites, like Survivor and 24. I just think they have a higher standard of writing and this parody was just...lame. Sorry.

[lamentingenvelope]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 11:43am

I love Broadway Abridged, especially the Wicked spoof (Seattle: Hey Idina, nice singing! gets me every time, and Joe Mantello not paying attention to rehearsals in favor of daydreaming about staging nude baseball player scenes? Heh heh.) Then again, I don't really like Wicked... but Assassins is my favorite musical of all time and that one kills me (pun intended) too.

[Tom1071]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:00pm

I LOVE IT!! Brilliant!

[Millie42]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:10pm

I adore the Assassins one, too!

JEFFREY KUHN [ASSASSIN #2](to audience, repeating but still in a very heavy accent)
NO LAUGH!

AUDIENCE
We... we didn't laugh... we actually don't know what you'd said...

I now laugh so hard when I hear this part on the CD b/c it's so true!

[iheartmark]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:21pm

My favorite part of the Wicked one:
KRISTEN CHENOWETH
And I adore you, Norbert...
(she begins laughing
hysterically)

NORBERT LEO BUTZ
What's so funny?

KRISTEN CHENOWETH
Your name is Norbert! Ha ha ha ha ha...

[dry2olives]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:37pm

The 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical "On Your Toes" included a ballet by Ballanchine that spoofed traditional Russian ballet. While the show was running, a prominant Russian ballet company had an engagement in New York. Instead of being offended, they took out an ad in Playbill saying "Only the great deserve the darts of satire."

[Jilani]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 1:21pm

The tin man "plot hole" was actually one of the least clever aspects of the writeup, since in both the original Baum book and (if I remember correctly) the Maguire novel, the tin man WAS formerly a munchkin, who ends up being transformed into the tin man due to an evil spell cast by the Wicked Witch of the East on his axe.

In general, while I thought many parts of the spoof were hilarious and on-target, it wasn't particularly witty or cleverly written a la TWoP, as newgirl notes. Then again, TWoP writers get paid for their snarky writeups, whereas this guy seems to do it just for fun.

Hopefully, there's room for all of us (Wicked-lovers, Wicked-haters, people who like to laugh at such spoofs, and people who don't) on this board.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 1:26pm

Yeah...the DRS one sucked. Same jokes, same everything. I'm disappointed.

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 2:35pm

People who make fun of Wicked are meanie poofy faces.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 2:44pm

Oh, Tuttle, the language!

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 7/7/05 at 3:01pm

IDINA MENZEL
(To audience)
Oh, how oppressive a life it is being not white!

She winks, and then pulls out a
timeline of American history since the
Civil War to drill the paper-thin
parallel into our head.


HAHA!

Posted: 7/8/05 at 12:26am

What's weird is when you've read a four page thread and you get to the point where you can't tell who was being sarcastic and who wasn't...

Yes, the DRS one definitely sucked. What can I say. I enjoyed the show.

Criticize away. How sad it would be if I could dish and not take.
Updated On: 7/8/05 at 12:26 AM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 12:44am

Broadway Abridged is BRILLIANT, and the WICKED one is the best one on the entire site - it's far better than the actual show.

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 7/8/05 at 1:02am

HA! that is excellent. YES.