Why do people hate Wicked? — Page 4

The lyrics confuse the crap out of me, though. "I'd sooner buy defying gravity." What?

"I'd sooner buy defying gravity" is a direct reference to the preceding line, "It comes at much to high a cost".

And the first time I heard "Look at her, she's wicked! GET HER!" I laughed.

I never understood why people have such a problem with it. As I've said before, it's a classic mob scene. Sondheim wrote, "More hot pies! More hot! More pies! More!" Hammerstein wrote, "The vittles we et were good. You bet!" Broadway is filled with awkward chorus lyrics, some far worse than the ones in Wicked.

So serious haters, keep you comments to yourself, please. Some people really really enjoy this. But, everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

But only express them if they are the same as yours? What?

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I enjoy the show for what it is, but yeah, it totally strays from the novel, which I consider something of a masterpiece.

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Matt, you've said the Sondheim thing before. We get it! That line makes me laugh because it's just so basic. It reminds me of what I tell my dog when my brother is being a douche. "Get him, Delilah! Get him!" The line is funny to me.

And I hated the book! I picked it up and got to the third chapter before I had to put it down. It was the most boring piece of crap I have ever NOT read in my life. I was bored to tears. That was the reason I saw the musical in the first place. I was like, "If they could make a musical out of THAT, then God love 'em. It must be amazing." I'm considering picking it up again and trying to get through it. I was young when I tried to read it and I wasn't really into it back then.

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I'm sorry guys I totally didn't mean it that way at all. Actually, I'm not really sure what I meant. What my fatal attempt at a post was trying to say was it's all opinion. Really. Sorry I realize that didn't make any sense at all, sorry. I really didn't mean it that way and I apologize. I'm not really sure what I was actually trying to say:) So sorry!

I don't hate the show personally- it has a special place in my heart as it was one of the earliest contemporary shows that I discovered and enjoyed. I listened to the cast album again and again not out of obsession but out of observation, learning the show that way. One thing that I don't like about the cast album is that it cuts too much dialogue out not to mention the Wicked Witch of the East song. I think the show has a good message to it and it hits its mark reasonably well. But it is definitely vapid with a really thinly developed book. It is pretty generic in terms of character depth and general plot. The novel obviously has a lot more depth to the characters that I think the musical could have used more. It feels like it was written for the purpose of being a hit rather than to actually have a thought provoking story. The novel itself is dull with a lot of wasted moments along with too many characters but there is enough meat there to create a great story out of it, really because it is such a fantastic concept to tell the story of how the Wicked Witch of the West was actually good and she was best friends with Glinda . But it feels like Holzman and Schwartz only wanted to appeal to audiences who merely want to be entertained and oversimplified the material.

It's like Musical Theater 101, it's basic. Most people move past it and want to see more adult things, that's all. I don't hate it, I enjoyed it for exactly what it is. Loved the book though, deeply.