Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz- Page 2

[Rentaholic2]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#25

Posted: 8/13/05 at 5:48pm

Ok--so exactly what part of Merry Ol Land of Oz IS that? I either don't recognize it or I just can't NOT hear 'you're outta the woods'...is it the same, because I'm almost certain that is what I am hearing

[Justice]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#26

Posted: 8/13/05 at 6:43pm

"I don't think you understand, you're having delusions of granduer" is "Follow the Yellow Brick Road"

"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.

[DefyingEDCT]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#27

Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:19am

The Unlimited Theme throughout the play is the first 7 notes of Somewhere Overthe Rainbow.

[zzannahk]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#28

Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:25am

Homages tp broadway greats

Mirror Scene- WWE - Phantom
Couldn't be happier (glinda w. mic) - Evita
Melina's lover (wizard) - Fosse??

[jam_man]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#29

Posted: 8/18/05 at 2:59am

There are (way too) many nods to The Wizard of Oz in Wicked, but I wouldn't call them "hidden."

However, the things you guys said about the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," stuff is kind of interesting. Here and I thought Wicked had no depth at all! :)

"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay

GO CARDINALS!!!

[The Distinctive Baritone]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#30

Posted: 8/18/05 at 3:24am

Kringas, what alternate dimension of grammar are you living in? (And even if you are right, who the hell corrects people's grammar on internet message boards?)

[jam_man]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#31

Posted: 8/18/05 at 3:28am

"And even if you are right, who the hell corrects people's grammar on internet message boards?" - The Distinctive Baritone

Uh... everyone who has ever been on an internet message board.

EDIT: Though that's really more spelling, isn't it?

"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay

GO CARDINALS!!!

Updated On: 8/18/05 at 03:28 AM

[zzannahk]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#32

Posted: 8/18/05 at 3:30am

it is kinda rude and a waste of space

[Popular]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#33

Posted: 8/18/05 at 3:54am

The Wizard and Elphaba's dance during Wonderful always looked to me at certain points like the skipping that Dororthy and the rest of them did when singing "Follow the Yellow Brick Road...."

[DefyingEDCT]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#34

Posted: 8/18/05 at 9:58am

1) "If I Only Had A Brain" when the Scarcrow appears in the finale.
2) "Merry Old Land Of Oz" which is the piccolo part when the sing "So I'll be back for good someday..."
3) "Optimistic Voices" which is the part you're out of the woods, you're out of the dark, you're out of the night...." which can be heard in the flute line of "One Short Day" The and the part it is in is: "So I'll be back for good someday..."

[best12bars]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#35

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:10am

Maybe I'm a sap, but when I heard those few recognizable notes in the underscore from "If I Only Had a Brain," when Fiyero comes out on stage at the end, I found it rather touching. Very nicely done.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[bella cantato]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#36

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:13am

Right as Elphie is going up in DG, you can hear a re-worked version of the Wicked Witch theme in Wizard of Oz. I would sing it but obviously that can't be done via keyboard, but it was like dun dun dun dun dahhh dahhh (you know when she's riding her bike), well you can hear it in the background when Elphie is rising up, right before she sings "So if you care to find me..."

"You know, a little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I supressed the urge to laugh in her face. But now, by gum, I think she might have been on to something!" --Reefer Madness

[DefyingEDCT]

re: Wicked - Hidden Homages to Wizard of Oz#37

Posted: 8/18/05 at 10:18am

I hear it :)