WICKED by Gregory Maguire
WICKED by Gregory Maguire
#0WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:01pmim doing a report on WICKED and need some help. so if anyone read the book and would be able to help me could you pm me ..thanks
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
#1re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:03pm
::raises hand::
will pm
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#2re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:15pm
hell... why don't I just type it up for you too! 
#3re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:42pmi wouldnt stop you
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
#4re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 8:46pm
lol. I have to do a report on it also.
I didn't even finish the book yet. Woops!
MissElphie
Broadway Star Joined: 4/4/05
#5re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 9:10pmI'll be done the book by tomorrow. What did you need help with?
QtKt
Leading Actor Joined: 9/15/04
#6re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 9:13pm
I've read it... what do you need help with? PM me if you want 
renthead2005z
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/2/05
#7re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 9:57pmdoes anyone think they should make the book or a book rather more like the musical...i was a bit enthralled when i found out the changes--having read the book after seeing the musical..i think that someone should take the initiative to do it bcz it was good the way the musical was...don't get me wrong i loved the book and the sex scenes were hott...lol but i want something like the musical as well.
"Why do we play with fire?-Why do we run our fingers through the flame?"
#8re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:04pm
I do personally wish the musical was a bit more like the book. Especially regarding Boq's personality, in the book to the musical. He was much more interesting in the book, quite the little perv too.
Although I do like the mega character-twists in the musical, that weren't in the book.
#9re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:04pmI really..highly disliked the book... it really tured me off to the show.. thats partially why I never saw the show
#10re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:06pmthe book was great. thats probably why i didnt like the bway show as much
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Up In Won
Leading Actor Joined: 9/15/04
#11re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:09pmI actually really liked the book, even if I have yet to finish it and I got it like, last June, maybe? It gets a little boring in parts, but I like it. Hehe.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
sweeedboy
Stand-by Joined: 10/31/03
#12re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:13pmI loved the book and while i was reading it thought it would make a great musical. I actually thought sondheim would have been a great author of it keeping it dark and political... The changes were interesting but i really missed all the dark political twists of the book
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#13re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:21pmCan I just say, I love the book. And, picturing Norbert Leo Buts with the marks Fiyero has in the book is a very nice thought.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
renthead2005z
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/2/05
#14re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:35pmtrue true...i really like the book i didn't mean i hated the book, i just wish there was another one that was more like the musical...i just like who the roles of fiyero and boq turn out to be, and i thought it was a clever twist. The book is geniously written,a nd hott.
"Why do we play with fire?-Why do we run our fingers through the flame?"
#15re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/11/05 at 10:38pm
Read the book. Reaction: Meh.
Saw the musical. Reaction: Wow.
Read the book again. Reaction: OH! I get it NOW!
This is my signature.
#19re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/12/05 at 12:06am
heh.
I started the book. Never had time to finish it. I want to though. It's not at school with me though.
DefyGravity23
Stand-by Joined: 3/28/05
#20re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/12/05 at 12:17amI kinda liked the book...it's very different from the musical. They're both good in their own ways - kinda hard to compare them. The ending of the book was what I thought the ending of the musical was going to be...if you know what I mean. And was very surprised by the musical, but happily surprised (I like the character twists in the musical better too).
#21re: WICKED by Gregory Maguire
Posted: 4/12/05 at 1:11am
I am still somewhat confused by the book. I mean, there is just so much going on and so much I still cannot figure out, Yackle, for instance.
I like how the musical pulls aspects from Baum's books (sawhorse, Flatheads, L. Frank Baum's initials), the MGM musical (ruby slippers, Elphaba's green skin, the witch's broom instead of umbrella), and obviously from the novel(too many examples to name). For me the musical ties them all together.
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