Wicked Witch of the East song in Wicked

I know there are spoilers but there could be a way around it to put it on the Wicked CD. I'm not crazy about the song but it is cool to watch on stage. What do you think of this song?

Updated On: 2/5/05 at 09:33 PM

It's okay. The whole score is very mediocre. I can understand why it wasn't put on the cast album.

I think they could have done more with the song. Like they put one line about
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how the father died. That is important. They like skip over it

Updated On: 2/5/05 at 09:44 PM

Never seen the show, I enjoyed the song alot. It gave Michelle Ferderer a chance to show off her voice and we got more of a glimpse of Nessa's character and the relationship between her and Elphaba.

I'm not really sure how much they good do to put it on the soundtrack. There's a considerable amount of dialogue in between and it really does give away alot of the show. Even if you just take the vocal sections, it isn't that long is it? Not much more than 2 minutes or so?

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Also, is Joey Mac still playing Fiyero? I actually liked him.

Chris and Joey have both left from the show. I loved Chris! He is certainly missed. David Ayers is playing Fiyero, and I believe Jeffery Kuhn is Boq right now.

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JEFFREY KUHN (Boq) last appeared on Broadway as Giuseppe Zangara in the Tony Award winning production of Assassins. Previous Broadway: Ragtime (original cast). As a member of Canada's renowned Stratford Festival, his credits include Love's Labour's Lost, Antony and Cleopatra, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Illusion, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Treasure Island and Timon of Athens, starring Brian Bedford. Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons concert staging of Floyd Collins. Regionally: Alliance Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Prince Music Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse. Additionally, the original Canadian company of The Lion King (Zazu), The Who's Tommy (Cousin Kevin), George F. Walker's Nothing Sacred (Gregor).

Theres also some new cast pictures on the website.

the only thing that bugs me is his headband thing..I know it has its purpose, but still....

and *sigh* he's also not Christopher Fitzgerald BUT I've talked too much about him soooo the end.

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Yes there's a lot of dialogue during DANCING THROUGH LIFE and even DEFYING GRAVITY which were cut from the cd, but in both cases there's still a lot of music to be recorded without giving away the plot turns. But in WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST even the singing parts contain things that might be considered as 'spoilers' so cutting all those lines and the dialogue wouldn't leave much to be recorded. That's why the WWotE wasn't included in the cd.

The scene WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST was a good one, even though I felt it was a little too hurried, they could have given those events a little bit more time and make the scene a bit longer. Now it's a bit rushed.

And I don't know if it was intentional or not, but by the scene WWotE we had already had the Lion in the story and in this scene we also got The Witch and The Wardrobe... I thought it was a funny detail.

WWotE is also one of my favorite songs. there are copies of it out there, even though it didn't make it to the cast recording.

i HATE that they cut out so much from songs like defying gravity. the "IT'S MEEEEEE" note that elphaba sings as she rises up on the flying machine is one of my favorite notes in the show, and it was cut from the OBCR.


EDIT - tucking fypos

Updated On: 2/6/05 at 01:44 PM

i used to not care for the song..but it has become 1 of my top favorites.

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::nods head:: Amen Dreamcathcer

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