differences between LA wicked and the Broadway one — Page 2

re: shoes- they're glued together, (maybe sets of four pairs each or so?) but not glued to the piece that they're on, so it's like chunks of shoes being taken off a shelf. If that makes any sense visually? :)
And then the shoe shelf is just a plain old tiktok again.

Yes there's still the end trap door, but no "No Good Deed" trapdoor- at least that's the Pantages setup for the tour.

Yep, instead Elphaba sort of... others who have seen it might have a better way to describe it than I do... runs/circles on stage in the opening of "No Good Deed." Still screaming 'Fiyerooooooo,' and holding that note *forever,* so it's almost the same start to it, but nope, no trap door.

yeah, try explaining it in words- at first I had "Elphaba twirls around on stage," there had to be a better way to describe what it is that she does right then. :)

They DO have a trap door in the LA production (at the Pantages). They don't have the elevator/lift to raise and lower a performer, however. That's what malfunctioned and nearly killed Idina in one of her final performances on Broadway, when she stepped into a 4-foot hole. I can't imagine them touring a hydraulic contraption like that anyway, since no two theatres are going to have the same dimentions under their stage floor. The trap door itself is used more sparingly in the LA show, but rest assured, Elphaba pops up through it when Fiyero knocks on the floor... Just like in the Broadway production.

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"nearly killed Idina"??? You were one of the ones crying and lighting candles outside the theatre, right? She fell and she was bruised up a little. She was not "nearly killed".

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The stage manager told me in march as well, that any changes made to the tour (as in the ones we've been discussing) will also be made for the Bway production. When asked "why" she says the changes are usually for the better and most of the time easier for the crew and cast.

and if you don't believe that I talked to the stage manager find the thread that I said all the stuff that came true a week or two before it was announced (like Kris telling me there would be a sit-down pro and he was Fiyero). I tell the truth kids :)

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Question, i'm going to be in Chicago on Sat. and want to see wicked, which iknow is sold out, how do the cancellation lines normally work? do you j ust go a few hours before or rigth before the show? How does the "lotto" work? Also, is the one in Chicago as scaled back as the tour version? Thanks. If someone could PM w/ any info, thanks.

on the tour in what is this feeling i think they sing in the center of the stage at the beginning of it (that's wut it looked like on a new thing or the commercial for it). also, in the tour when elphie and glinda are at the emerald city the first time when mad. morrible brings in the grimmeree it's different. on the tour mad. morrible enters stage right. on broadway she enters stage left (i think). that's wut ive noticed

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In reply to the question about the costumes, yes, when Megan took over for JLT they made the switch over to the new Glinda costumes from the tour and Chicago productions. They kept the old costumes up until when JLT left, even for the understudies, because I saw Stacie go on right before JLT left and she still had the old costumes. So, now I guess they must be permenant (no matter how much I don't like them).

Hope this helps.

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