I'm more musical OCD, so if your playing your music on shuffle and a song from a musical that I know comes on, I will just kind of hope you will skip it because I only want to hear it with the rest of the recording. Please, pleaaase don't use "OCD" to describe that.
I consider it one of the reasons why Broadway is losing interest in sopranos, among other shows. I mean, what the hell is going on with lowering Julie Jordan's keys? Why? Wicked is just one contributor to this pattern, I think (and no, Glinda doesn't count as a legit soprano role in my eyes--you have to belt parts of it). Modern audiences just don't seem to like high notes. I don't know if it's because they're not used to them or if something else has changed.
As for why I dislike Wicked, I just don't think it's that good. There are a few good songs, but a lot of them don't really fit the rest of the show, IMO. I mean, "As Long as You're Mine" could be a love duet between anyone. And "For Good" is completely superfluous and, IMO, shallow in terms of exploring the relationship between the two characters.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!