Wicked LA Program

#1

Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/6/05 at 11:09pm

I saw Wicked at the Pantages last night and upon leafing through the program I bought, I saw that the first image in it is one of this great big witch hat and two guys standing around it. And I don't remember seeing that scene in the show. Did I miss something?

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#2

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/6/05 at 11:11pm

these are pics pulled from the brodway production that was cut from the nat'l tour

#3

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/6/05 at 11:17pm

No kidding. That's what I get for living in California. Any idea why they were cut?

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#4

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/6/05 at 11:23pm

It was cut because it takes a trap door to pull off the effect, and since it's a national tour not all theatres have the ability to pull it off.

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#5

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/6/05 at 11:24pm

why does it need a trap door?

#6

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/6/05 at 11:25pm

If you see the effect live, the hat dissapears through a trap door.

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#7

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/7/05 at 1:27am

Yes, there are a few things in the Broadway show that are missing from the tour production.

#8

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/7/05 at 8:08am

pluss i thing that "effect" sucks, it kind of looks stupid with this big had, very corney.

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#9

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/7/05 at 10:34am

I have to say...I never got why there was a GIANT hat on stage, and people dancing around it...I mean, the Munchkins weren't THAT small!

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#10

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/7/05 at 4:28pm

I never noticed it went through a trap door! That's why i couldn't figure out why they didn;t do it in L.A.

#11

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/7/05 at 4:43pm

MLE (or anyone else who knows), what else from the Broadway production is missing from the touring production?

#12

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/7/05 at 4:45pm

not sure Jilani, id like to know myself.

does anyone know if there's a girl in the nat'l tour on pointe the entire time like the broadway show?

#13

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/7/05 at 5:07pm

What does no one mourns the wicked go like then?

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#14

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/7/05 at 7:12pm

couldnt they have jsut revamped that effect? like make it collapsable or something? i dont see how they could just open the curtain to nothing... although unrealistic i liked the big hat effect

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#15

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/7/05 at 7:14pm

They basically had the monkeys jumping around and then cut the "overture" to just the first vamps of no one mourns the wicked, so there wasn;t a very long overture, just a few seconds.

#16

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Posted: 7/7/05 at 7:20pm

wow that sucks more than the hat.... i love the overture.

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#17

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/7/05 at 7:40pm

Ya, me too. i was pretty pissed off when that didn;t happen, but then Stephanie made me love the show even more than i did and then i could give a rats a$$ about the hat.

#18

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/7/05 at 7:54pm

you are too lucky. I would love to see steph live! I wish she wouldcome to NY! I also want to see Ana really bad lol

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#19

re: Wicked LA Program

Posted: 7/8/05 at 10:12am

I am seeing Wicked tonight at LA. I really hope Stephanie is on. :)