Wicked Closing Night Reviews

Wow! What a great show. I have been looking forward to this for months now. But, it didn't really sink in until last night that I would be seeing the LAST performance in Chicago.

Walking down the street to the theatre me and my friend talked about how sad it was going to be to not see the Wicked sign in the Marquee any more, and that all of the green light bulbs would be gone as well. When we walked into the theatre for the last time memories from all of my previous visits started coming back to mind. And I then realized how many good memories I have of that that show, and all of my friend and loved ones I have seen it with. And probably most importantly seeing that show made me realize what I wanted to do with my life. So, needless to say today's show was a little emotional for me.

Anyways, lets talk about the show now! MY hat goes off to the entire cast, they were on their game tonight! Even within the very first moments of the show you could tell that everyone was giving it their all tonight.

Annaleigh Ashford was HILARIOUS! She added a whole bunch of stuff to Popular tonight for their last show. She was so crazy Dee started laughing, and had to wait to move on to her next line.

And Dee was spectacular tonight. It has been a LONG tim since I last saw her and she has vastly improved. The first time I saw her I thought she was just ok in the role. But that was early on in her run. But since then she has truly made the role her own. And she had some nice riffs the entire night.

It was nice to see Gene and Kristoffer again, sice the last time I saw the show they were not in the cast. Gene was his usual hilarious self. And Kris was just as good as I remember him. I had been reading on this site that it seemed like he was getting bored with the role, but I didn't see that at all.

Well, that's it for now. But, I will probably write more later.

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::sigh:: I had to let everything sink in before writing about the show today, which was fantastical. Dee was very good, I had never seen her before and was impressed but not blown away. Her "Wizard and I" was good, "Defying Gravity" was good, but "No Good Deed" was the one that sealed it for me, she tore it up. Annaleigh was HILARIOUS, I had also never seen her before and was crying from laughing so hard. She clearly has some hardcore ballet training because she was leaping all over the place during "Popular," and sunk into the splits at one point....haha then she got up and was like "I'm okay." Hilar!

Gene was great, I couldn't tell but it seemed like he got a little cholked up in the beginning of "Wonderful." I could've just been imagining it, though. ? Anyway. Kristoffer Cusick rocks my socks, whenever I listen to the OBCR I seem to hear him in my head instead just because I really like his voice (...sry Norb). His dancing is also cramazing, I could watch him dance through life for quite awhile and that would be okay :) lol.

Who else....I don't have my Playbill in front of me and am not familiar with the lastest cast, but Madame Morrible was sort of on and off for me. Parts of her performace I liked and parts I did not, but she gave me enormous chills when she called out the "wiiiiiiiicked wiiiiiitch" part (that whole speech).

I will admit I shed a tear (or 10...or more...) during "For Good." Annaleigh was crying and I couldn't tell if Dee was or not but they hugged and everybody went wild at the end. HUGE standing O and cheers for the whole cast at the end, and some past cast members were on the stage when the producer (whose name I've forgotten because, well, I'm not good with names) gave a speech after bows.

Wicked will be missed! I'm glad to have touring shows but I didn't expect to be so sad today. Alas, life will continue. Oh and the stage door was a zoo, as expected, haha we were instructed to form a line that went all the way to the end of the alley. The cast were all incredibly generous with their time and stopped to sign/take pictures with every person there despite the cold. Overall a fantastical experience which I will never forget. Au revoir, Wicked!

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I forgot about this Board!

I bought tickets many months ago, and in fact could not find them until last week!

So much fun and such a great show! Gene and Barb were excellent! Heidi is my fav of the Chicago cast and I have seen her perform the role 7 times! It was like a rock concert!

I have bought and brokered thousands of dollars of tickets for this production! Tell Stone to send me a thank you note!