do you think...
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Lizzya9
Broadway Star Joined: 10/14/06
#1do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 4:46pmthat they would ever release Wicked for community, high school, & regional theatres to perform?
myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
#2re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 4:48pmEventually. No time soon. Once it closes the producers and rights holders will realize thier sitting on a gold mine.
"Have they come yet?"
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#2re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 4:48pmNo. Never.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
skingdom
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/03
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#4re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 4:53pmOnce the Broadway, West End and Touring productions close, all copies of the script and score will be destroyed.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#5re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 4:53pm
Skingdom, I am heartbroken that you didn't sign your post "Skingdom out" 
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#6re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 5:01pm
Yes they will. There is a passionate need for audiences to hear 15 year old girls screetch "Defying Gravity".
And of course, once it's released, every summer stock theater from here to Sheboygen will produce it.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#7re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 5:02pm
Once the Broadway, West End and Touring productions close, all copies of the script and score will be destroyed.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that was court ordered.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#8re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 5:10pm
Yes they will. There is a passionate need for audiences to hear 15 year old girls screetch "Defying Gravity".
I for one am in that crowd.
On a serious note, I do think eventually it will happen. Like myManCape said, they're sitting on a gold mine with this show.
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#9re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 5:12pmDon't forget Wicked Jr!
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#10re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 5:20pmOh, God, if they do ever release it, I'm glad I will be LONG out of high school.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#11re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 5:21pmYeah... I'm sure there will be a Wicked School Edition even before the rights for stock and amateur productions are released.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#12re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 5:26pm
And Miss Dakota Fanning will be old enough to play Galinda. Tom Bosley will make himself available to play the Wizard. People will try to lure Carol Channing into playing Morrible, but she will bow out and the mantle will fall to Sandy Duncan.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Updated On: 4/3/07 at 05:26 PM
skingdom
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/03
#14re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 7:40pm
My choir teacher wants to do it.
She doesn't understand that the show is so overplayed and we all hate it.
I hope she, and everybody, never gets to do the show.
#15re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 7:45pm
If this was ever put on by a high school it would be bad just due to no spectacular special effects that make the show. There eventually will be rights to it but there really shouldn't. Though there are many 16 year old girls who could do Defying Gravity well.
Updated On: 4/3/07 at 07:45 PM
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#16re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 7:52pm
I as a vocal director and music teacher hereby pledge to never, ever, EVER allow any school I am working at to produce a production of Wicked.
I won't even allow my show choirs to sing those awful Hal Leonard arragnements.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#17re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 8:19pmMy high school (the school that just won the Grammy for best high school music program, btw) requires Defying Gravity and Popular for the freshman Girls Chorus, and they went to see it last year... Oy Vey, I hope I will be long out of there before rights are released... I HATED their butchery of WSS... god only knows what they will do with Wicked...
What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!
dramaqueen2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/05
#18re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 8:46pm
most definitely. in the future, not currently.
it would be a major money maker, because theatre companies know that it is now [and will be more-so later on..] a very well-known musical and that old and young alike will want to come to see it. hence, the royalties will be high and often.
hear my song; it was made for the time when you don't know where to go, listen to the song that i sing, you'll be fine..
#19re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 8:59pm
People thought that Grease, Fiddler on the Roof and Cats wouldn't ever be released for high school, college or community theatre, but they have, and let's face it, the authors are rich because of it. Schwartz, McGuire, et al stand to earn more of a fortune once this show is released for wide production. They'd be fools to burn all the material and
not release the rights, not to mention that there would be a lot of illegal productions if they did.
I suspect that Music Theater International will have persual scripts availabe sometime in the next five years and if it goes on as long as Les Miz did, they'll even release rights before it closes.
Not having been able to get tickets in NY, Minneapolis or Chicago, I suspect I won't see the show myself for years, but I've read the book twice, and I'm reading my class The Wizard of Oz right now, so I suspect I'll read Wicked again afterwards.
They should consider making Mirror, Mirror, Gregory McGuire's revision of Snow White for musical adaptation. That's a better idea for a musical than Legally Blonde!
NYC Visitor and Broadway Fan
#20re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 9:06pmSchwartz must be a pretty damn greedy man if four productions of Wicked running in the U.S. isn't enough for him.
outovfashion07
Broadway Star Joined: 1/17/06
#21re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 9:38pmI had to beg our choir teacher not to do a Wicked Medly. Thankfully she is a reasonable woman.
#22re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 9:59pm
My choir teacher has done vocal versions of 'Popular' and 'For Good'. Both of which were decent .
We're working on 'Defying Gravity' now. It's awful. This song was meant to be a duet type thing... not 100 kids singing harmonies.
I beg you... save your self, never listen to Wicked in S.A.T.B arrangements. Actually, never listen to Wicked at all.
#23re: do you think...
Posted: 4/3/07 at 10:09pmWicked is covered in copyrighted material from MGM. The rights for it are going to cost a fortune unless they cut out all the Wizard of Oz referances. I would never want to see a school production. I don't think the show is good enough to stand without professionals in the roles.
Lizzya9
Broadway Star Joined: 10/14/06
#24re: do you think...
Posted: 4/5/07 at 7:55pm
i agree with chavela. there are NO 15 year old girls out there that could ever dream to handle Defying Gravity, or Glinda's part in No One Mourns the Wicked, or Popular, etc etc. No teenybopper drama club could ever compare to a professional production and I don't think anyone but professionals should do it. Plus, what community theatre or high school would ever have the technical advantages for Defying Gravity?? But, it would rake in the dough for the creators. and tickets would sell like crazy.
ashbash, congrats on the grammy! sorry i know this is off topic but that is super exciting. = )
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