Wicked LA Program

[manders]

Wicked LA Program#0

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?

But the secret ingredient is love. Dammit.

[broadwaybelter]

re: Wicked LA Program#1

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

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

[manders]

re: Wicked LA Program#2

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

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

But the secret ingredient is love. Dammit.

[chinkie azn jai]

re: Wicked LA Program#3

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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[sassypanz]

re: Wicked LA Program#4

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

why does it need a trap door?

[chinkie azn jai]

re: Wicked LA Program#5

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

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

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[MLE]

re: Wicked LA Program#6

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

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

[Justin D]

re: Wicked LA Program#7

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

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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre

[Justice]

re: Wicked LA Program#8

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!

"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.

[noahrp3]

re: Wicked LA Program#9

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.

[Jilani]

re: Wicked LA Program#10

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?

[stagebeauty]

re: Wicked LA Program#11

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?

[morebroadwayplease]

re: Wicked LA Program#12

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

What does no one mourns the wicked go like then?

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[juice23]

re: Wicked LA Program#13

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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[noahrp3]

re: Wicked LA Program#14

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.

[juice23]

re: Wicked LA Program#15

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

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

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[noahrp3]

re: Wicked LA Program#16

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.

[juice23]

re: Wicked LA Program#17

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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[MouseInfo]

re: Wicked LA Program#18

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

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