View Full Version : Going to see Wicked-
Nephythys
06-19-2009, 09:00 PM
It's coming to Denver-going to be a girls night out!:cheers:
Rose, Skittles and I- going to do dinner downtown and go see the show *woot* Dress up and have a FUN time!
Downloaded the Broadway soundtrack too- gonna know this one before I see it.
Skittles had tears in her eyes when I told her it was coming to town-she hasn't seen it but knows the music.
So excited!! Hope to get good seats....
flippyshark
06-19-2009, 09:59 PM
It's delightful - have a great time!
Congratulations!!!!!! I've seen it twice so far and hoping to go yet again! Once in L.A. and once in S.F.! I love it ...
Kevy Baby
06-20-2009, 09:38 AM
Seen it twice as well and enjoyed it both times. Have fun!
innerSpaceman
06-20-2009, 11:57 AM
Two times, too. I think that's enough, but enjoyed it immensely both times. Have Fun!!
Gemini Cricket
06-20-2009, 12:31 PM
"Defying Gravity" = awesomeness.
:)
Nephythys
06-20-2009, 04:09 PM
"Defying Gravity" = awesomeness.
:)
Squee OH yes!:snap:
For Good...even more amazing than Defying Gravity if possible!
lashbear
06-20-2009, 09:05 PM
Try not to cry during "For Good"... I dare you !! And bring binoculars, there's an amazing amount of detail in the costumes and props. We bought a pair at walgreens for a couple of bucks and they really enhanced the whole experience.
Nephythys
06-21-2009, 10:40 AM
Fave songs so far-
Defying Gravity
Popular
For Good
Also like-
No Good Deed
Going to try to get orchestra seats-but binoculars are a good idea.
Kevy Baby
06-21-2009, 10:43 AM
I really liked the part where the huge chandelier came swinging out over the audience - that was really cool!
I really liked the part where the huge chandelier came swinging out over the audience - that was really cool!
Haha! KB is confusing Wicked with The Vagina Monologues.
lashbear
06-21-2009, 06:42 PM
VTM !! :snap:
alphabassettgrrl
06-21-2009, 08:28 PM
For a while "For Good" made me cry. Other times "Defying Gravity" would do it. "No Good Deed" makes me giggle. Some of the Act 2 songs I would skip on the CD but there are some truly great ones there, too.
lashbear
06-21-2009, 11:19 PM
I always skip "Something Baaaaaaad"
Kevy Baby
06-22-2009, 11:27 AM
Are Susan and I the only ones who think the first five minutes of Wicked really blow?
wolfy999
06-22-2009, 11:36 AM
Enjoy....my favorite Broadway show of all time (as of yet anyways)!
Nephythys
06-22-2009, 12:20 PM
Girls night out is now me, Rose, Skittles, my mom and my sister in law
LOL
alphabassettgrrl
06-22-2009, 09:05 PM
I like the opening bit with the mom and Elphaba's birth. I like the wrinkle, and I like it technically.
Something Baaad is one I skip.
The current dance recital is using "Something Good" in both show nights. :)
Jazzman
06-23-2009, 12:25 AM
Yay! Wicked is awesome! It almost edged out Chicago as my all time favorite play. I surprised Steph with tickets for her birthday in April and we absolutely loved it! You're going to have such a great time, Neph!
I have to say, though, that after loving the play I made the colossal mistake of reading the book, and just finished with that torturous journey last night, in fact. Thank Zeus they chucked that crappy piece of literary dung and just wrote a great musical. I would love to read a novelization of the musical, written by a talented writer, though. That would be a great book! Gregory Maguire, however, should be barred from ever typing another word. Blech...
Morrigoon
06-23-2009, 12:54 AM
Wow Jazz... I felt the opposite. Perhaps because I read the book first, but I was annoyed at how much the musical left out. I mean, obviously you have to leave out a lot, but to make the Time Dragon part of the set and then NEVER address its significance blew my mind.
Jazzman
06-23-2009, 01:34 AM
but to make the Time Dragon part of the set and then NEVER address its significance blew my mind.
Looking back, I can certainly agree there. (Totally awesome set piece, too.) The book, though, was just written so poorly that it felt like someone came up with a fantastic story idea and then handed it to a seventh grader to write. It was just painful, and I only finished it after forcing myself to read two chapters before bed every night. Thank Zeus the chapters followed the current short-attention-span-three-page-chapter formatting trend. Any longer and I may have offed myself.
Glad you liked it, though! :D
lashbear
06-23-2009, 06:41 AM
This will make more sense to Nephy once she's seen the show... (and it's a good chuckle, too!) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jD-U0aeCJ8) :D
ROTFLMAO OMG...Lash that is HILARIOUS!
Nephythys
06-23-2009, 09:10 AM
-oh, and Rose and I plan to be Glinda and Elphaba for Halloween.
Guess which one I am gonna be?
You do realize that requires photos to be available right? Follow their lead and find a green long sleeved top to save some of the paint!
Nephythys
06-23-2009, 10:15 AM
You do realize that requires photos to be available right? Follow their lead and find a green long sleeved top to save some of the paint!
Photos are a given.
She had green sleeves on?
I am planning to do this costume (http://images.broadwayworld.com/upload/40953/tn-500_nicole3.jpg)-so only my hands and face would need to be green anyway.
innerSpaceman
06-23-2009, 10:31 AM
I don't think the writing style of the book was great by any stretch, but the musical basically chucked the entire story and just left the barest set-up as its entire plot.
This wouldn't have been so bad if I perceived barely anything happening in the 2nd act, but was pretty baren of plot. I love the songs, the costumes, the characters ... but I hate that it's a tenth of the story instead of the customary musical adaptation of maybe half the story.
I hate it even more because reading the book is such a dreadful chore. It would have been nice to have the musical be a reasonable re-telling of the interesting story. But that's emphatically NOT the case.
Good songs though.
I have to agree on the play vs the book, I hadn't read the book before seeing the play either time, Lash and Stoat were oh you have to read the book, so we did....and I had a HARD time 'getting into the book' because it's so dark and far from the play 'storyline' I finally had to put it down and 'walk away' from it for a week and get my head into a 'it's only the same title with a few overlaping character names to be able to go back and really engage in the story presented in the book(s) the books are so much darker it's hard to describe but if you can seperate the two then you'll enjoy both.
innerSpaceman
06-23-2009, 11:44 AM
The thing that bugs me the most about the difference is that the book at least attempts to explain how Elphaba, the delightful, simply misunderstood character of the musical and part of the book, actually becomes the Wicked Witch of the West as we all know her.
The musical merely presents her as completely misunderstood, good to the end, and posits that the Wizard of Oz had it all wrong.
To my mind, this is an unforgiveable cheat.
I guess it could be called a "reboot" in modern terminology. But it doesn't work for me.
Good songs, tho. But since it conflicts directly with that other musical - ya know, the one from 1939 - I can't even say it's the best Oz musical.
Yet, I enjoyed it. Twice. Fine show. Deplorable story.
iSm, you should go re read the original Wizard of Oz too, I did when I started the Wicked books, just for 'reference' and was pretty surprised at the artistic license they used on that book as well. Not as bad as the Wicked play vs book but still pretty big ones.
Gemini Cricket
06-23-2009, 01:40 PM
This will make more sense to Nephy once she's seen the show... (and it's a good chuckle, too!) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jD-U0aeCJ8) :D
The theatre I did "Duck Hunter" at is doing this version of "Forbidden Broadway" next. It's going to be hilarious.
:)
Ghoulish Delight
06-23-2009, 01:47 PM
iSm, you should go re read the original Wizard of Oz too, I did when I started the Wicked books, just for 'reference' and was pretty surprised at the artistic license they used on that book as well. Not as bad as the Wicked play vs book but still pretty big ones.
I don't think iSm was saying that the book Wicked was more faithful to the original book than the play. I think he's saying that the play simply wasn't faithful to the book, and that it changed the story and character from the book in a way he didn't like.
oh I agree with him in that the book and play barely recognize each other, to that end, if you read the book Wizard of Oz then watch the movie - what would be the musical so to speak, they twisted a lot of the storyline to fit what they wanted in the movie from that as well. Not to the extent of Wicked but enough that having grown up watching the movie the story in the book was significantly different in many places so taking a core group of characters then just rebuilding the play/movie to suit the situation seems to be standadard. I totally agree that the play and the book are night and day. I do love the play and plan to go again before it leaves SF
innerSpaceman
06-23-2009, 02:35 PM
I have read the Baum book, and some of the sequels. I never enjoyed them as much as the MGM musical, but it was mostly plot and some tone changes - if I recall - and not two things that purposefully contradicted one another.
But that's all apples and oranges. My beef isn't with Wicked the Musical not matching Wicked the Book (though I think it's flawed because of that) ... rather it's with Wicked the Musical not matching its ultimate source material, the Wizard of Oz --- book or movie.
Prudence
06-23-2009, 02:44 PM
My other passion, aside from all things Alice, is Oz. Read all the original books over and over and over and over. Read Wicked the book long before there was a Wicked the musical and I loved it. Never seen the musical, but I love the book.
innerSpaceman
06-23-2009, 02:51 PM
You'd LOVE the first half of the musical.
Leave during intermission. ;)
lashbear
06-23-2009, 08:19 PM
To all the people who've read the book but not yet seen the stage show of Wicked I'll say this:
Hmmm, maybe I'd better put it in a spoiler, just in case. What do you other folks think, should I tell 'em?
Broadway producers love a happy ending.....
Properly warned, ye be.
Nephythys
06-24-2009, 06:26 AM
I have read the full synopsis- so I know what happens. Having not read the book though I have no comparison-other than knowing Elphaba is much prettier than the Witch in the original movie.
innerSpaceman
06-24-2009, 09:42 AM
Well, I recommend the book. But as with all things visually adapted from a book ... see the visual adaptation first, then read the book. That way, you're almost guaranteed to enjoy both.
Read the book afterwards. You'll be amazed by the stuff left out. And the biggest complaint about doing things in that order ... namely, you will picture the visual characters as you read ... will not detract from the book in this case.
alphabassettgrrl
06-25-2009, 10:04 PM
The thing that bugs me the most about the difference is that the book at least attempts to explain how Elphaba, the delightful, simply misunderstood character of the musical and part of the book, actually becomes the Wicked Witch of the West as we all know her.
The musical merely presents her as completely misunderstood, good to the end, and posits that the Wizard of Oz had it all wrong.
To my mind, this is an unforgiveable cheat.
I guess it could be called a "reboot" in modern terminology. But it doesn't work for me.
Good songs, tho. But since it conflicts directly with that other musical - ya know, the one from 1939 - I can't even say it's the best Oz musical.
Yet, I enjoyed it. Twice. Fine show. Deplorable story.
Good analysis and I agree. I enjoyed it, too, all the while knowing there was more that should have been there.
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