wicked on today

[musicaltheatreman]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 10:17am

i am watching the today show now, but i started watching it at 9. have they already shown the wicked performence??? if not when do they usally show the musical performences??? thanks :)

[WhatDoINeedWithLove?]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 10:30am

they played it at like 8:45....It was so adorable!!! :) They women are incredible!

[musicaltheatreman]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 10:53am

i hate thati missed it will they but a video feature of it on the today website or even the wicked website??? if anyone knows where i can see this please let me know !!!! =) thanks

[musicaltheatreman]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 10:53am

i hate thati missed it will they but a video feature of it on the today website or even the wicked website??? if anyone knows where i can see this please let me know !!!! =) thanks

Posted: 11/12/03 at 10:55am

I thought WICKED was on like the 18th.
I thought David Letterman was tonight.
Hmmm....

Posted: 11/12/03 at 11:28am

Nope,

Idina and Kristin were there in all their greenness and pinkness. Staunch Idina fan that I am, I have to say that each time I see Kristin she gets just a little more adorable. What troppers. The performance was outside and it was drizzling. Poor girls. Yuck.

Katie Couric was hesitant to shake Idina's hand until Idina reassured her that the green doesn't rubn off because it's "sprayed" on. Both girls were praised for their "phenomenal" voices. Of course, Idina didn't sing because they performed "Popular" but they showed a video clip of "The Wizard and I". Katie Couric remarked that she was excited to take her girls to see the show and that she thought that the original MGM Wicked Witch, Margaret Hamilton, would probably love what they've done with the character.

All in all, a great performance and I look forward to seeing the Letterman appearance by what I've heard is, "full cast".

[Here_I_Go_Again]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 11:37am

ahhhh did i miss it or are they not playing it on the west coast???

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 11:51am

I thought the crowd seemed underwhelmed, replete with polite little golf claps at the end. I know it was raining, but I have seen crowds make plenty of noise in rain and snow and everything on Today.

And that's when I realized that fans of Broadway musicals are going to have to come to terms with the fact that they're a dying breed. All the talk of shows bringing in new generations of future musical lovers, even if it happened, are really just going to replace the older fans as they die off. There is never going to be a time in which a musical sweeps the nation and huge numbers of people in the general public suddenly become fans of a genre in which people burst into song in the middle of the action.

Nothing wrong with that. Just make your peace with the fact that fans of musicals are going to increasingly be seen as curiosities who enjoy an arcane artform, like opera fanatics.

Posted: 11/12/03 at 12:17pm

*sigh*

More doom and gloom...Theatre lovers are a dying breed?

C'mon guys. Send me a little sunshine. I just found out my funding may not be renewed for my position at my office. Throw me a freakin' bone.

Posted: 11/12/03 at 1:07pm

I was so excited to see it aired on television, cuz i live in california and haven't heard or seen a thing on Wicked! But to my dismay only Kristen sang!

I wanted to hear Idina tear it up instead of hearing Kristen's always tongue-and-cheek Sally Brown interpretations. i fear she's heading down the same path as Kerri Butler, is that all they can do???

I DO see how Kristen would make an awesome Elle if they did Leagally Blonde the Musical, though.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 1:09pm

at least Idina gets to powerhouse it on Letterman

Posted: 11/12/03 at 1:11pm

so, "Defying Gravity" is Idina's big solo where she belts the F???

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 1:14pm

It's pretty much a quiet type duet between Idina and Kristin at the begininng, then Ididna gets to belt teh hell outta the thing by herself, then there is some ensemble stuff under her.. but that song is ALL about Idina.

her big solo in act one is "The Wizard AndI" which, once again, she tears it up in.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 1:15pm

No, amneris. I am talking specifically about musicals. As a genre. As an artform. The era is over, the rest is nostalgia. Nothing wrong with that. But really, from here on in it's a slow and steady descent mirroring the end of vaudeville.

Posted: 11/12/03 at 1:16pm

thanks broadwayguy!

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 1:17pm

No prob Rob.

[Sunfish]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 1:42pm

I would have loved to see it, but the "Today" show is just too damned early in the central time zone. I hope to have better luck with Letterman...where coming on earlier is a PLUS.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 3:38pm

The gals are great together, but like Broadwayguy, I'm looking forward to Idina performing away from the constant shadow of Kristin. I would've been happy with "Wizard and I," which reminds me (and apparently the whole Schwartz website) of "Meadowlark"--perhaps his most respected composition. If it's not in that league, it certainly is one of the better "I want" numbers, I think, and it lets Idina reveal both vulnerability and build to her money notes in the same song.

Everyone reports it's the one number, besides "Defying Gravity" that stops the show. Did when I saw it, the first week in. I'm not trying to revive the diva vs. diva debate, but the emotional weight of the show is carried in Idina's music, no matter what one thinks of the songs themselves.

Updated On: 11/12/03 at 03:38 PM

Posted: 11/12/03 at 3:39pm

Idina just plain rocks the house, end of story. lol

[Hello Gorgeous]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 3:59pm

I made my mother tape it because I was in school. I came home, and probably watched it about 3 or 4 times in a row! Then my sister came home, and we watched it again! Haha I love that number so much, but like everyone else, I can't wait until Idina belts out "Defying Gravity" next week.

Posted: 11/12/03 at 4:04pm

exactly! who cares about prancin around singing the sally brown voice, bring on the BELTERS!

although i do like kristen, BRING ON THE BELTING! Updated On: 11/12/03 at 04:04 PM

[robyn525600]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 4:08pm

I was at the show last night and Idina and Kristin went out another door. I was bummed but after hearing that they recorded the cd yesterday and had a performance on "Today" this morning, I TOTALLY understand.

[Al Dente]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 4:10pm

Truer words have not been spoken about musical theater in a long time, Namo. You are sadly, spot on.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 4:28pm

I gotta concur with Namo & Al. The Broadway musical audience is rapidly shrinking, though if you pop over to the Kristin board, you are heartened by the numberf of young pre-teen and teenage girls for whom Kriustin is an idol. Still, I was amazed how small the group of fans at the TODAY shoot were.

The funny thing about the number was how effective it went over on an intimate scale. WICKED may not be a satisfying Broadway musical (take the score...please!), but it might work extremely well as a movie musical.

[robbiej]

Posted: 11/12/03 at 4:38pm

I, too, was surprised at how well it played on the TV screen. And more than that, I was shocked by how truly nuanced and crafted Chenowith's performance is. I enjoyed her greatly in the theatre, but was surprised at how truly lovely she looked and how smart of an actress she is.

Atta girl.