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Wicked
Aug 4, 2006 16:08:48 GMT 1
Post by iain on Aug 4, 2006 16:08:48 GMT 1
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Wicked
Aug 4, 2006 16:13:48 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Aug 4, 2006 16:13:48 GMT 1
iain skyes..that is brilliant!! what a clever man you are for finding that...you have now inspired me to go and have a musical weekend...Wicked (a little bit of Shoshana's riffing/belting..a little bit of David Ayers Dancing thru life..a little bit of Popular..courtesy of Megan Hilty) and Rent are on the list whooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooooooo...
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Wicked
Aug 5, 2006 0:45:26 GMT 1
Post by CAKE on Aug 5, 2006 0:45:26 GMT 1
my friend from work just got a job working on the merchandise for Wicked ;D he's well chuffed, means he's leaving the Dom already though, not even worked there a month LOL
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Wicked
Aug 8, 2006 8:23:27 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Aug 8, 2006 8:23:27 GMT 1
WICKED IS COMING TO TOWN!!
YAY...i ended up passing through victoria today cuz there were delays on the Northern line and and and..they are starting to do up the front of the Apollo...Whooooo hoooooooooo..my favourite musical is coming to town!! YAY!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
and i was watching stuff from you tube (gotta love you tube ;D) and i was freaking cuz i'm so excited about seeing it again!! I loooooooooooooooooove THE WIZARD AND I!!
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Wicked
Aug 8, 2006 14:05:39 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Aug 8, 2006 14:05:39 GMT 1
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Wicked
Aug 16, 2006 14:17:42 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Aug 16, 2006 14:17:42 GMT 1
great read....once again insane..can't wait to see Dancing thru life..that's where I started liking David Ayers when i saw him sing that.
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Wicked
Aug 16, 2006 15:14:28 GMT 1
Post by iain on Aug 16, 2006 15:14:28 GMT 1
Damn!! I've fallen for all this Wicked hype! I'm going to the matinee on 20th September!
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Wicked
Aug 16, 2006 20:51:36 GMT 1
Post by iain on Aug 16, 2006 20:51:36 GMT 1
See you at the Apollo that day Iain! You're there too! I'll say hi if I see you!
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Wicked
Aug 28, 2006 14:52:33 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Aug 28, 2006 14:52:33 GMT 1
WHOOP deeeeee doooooooooo...the witches are coming ......the witches are coming.......yay
"now you just wait a clock tick" "we can't all come and go by bubble"
are two of my fave lines... ;D
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Wicked
Sept 1, 2006 8:32:26 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Sept 1, 2006 8:32:26 GMT 1
OMG I'm going to see WIcked..Sept 19!!! To mark the beginning of my brithday month...my colleague got me tickets for my birthday!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!! i'm bouncing off this wall!!!!!! YAY!!!! 18 days til Wicked
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Wicked
Sept 1, 2006 11:20:11 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Sept 1, 2006 11:20:11 GMT 1
uh.........somehow she's paid 90.00 for the tickets- dress circle..it's the charity gala...and she didn't even know..i didn't even know anything about it at all..How did that happen? ticketmaster?? oh well...i'm not complaining...whoop dee doooooooo....
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Wicked
Sept 2, 2006 16:56:45 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Sept 2, 2006 16:56:45 GMT 1
the only numbers i don't really like from Wicked are "something bad" and "one short day".....i don't care, i still love Wicked i'm kinda glad i'm seeing it from the DC, cuz of the flying monkeys, and the dragon, and of course Defying GRavity...
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Wicked
Sept 13, 2006 15:49:18 GMT 1
Post by waterloo on Sept 13, 2006 15:49:18 GMT 1
I saw Wicked for the first time on Monday night and what can I say other than WOW, what a show, absolutely fantastic and Idina Menzel is the most incredible performer I've ever seen!! I can certainly see why everyone raves about it so much. The whole cast were great, Helen Dallimore has a remarkable voice too. Miriam Margoyles, Adam Garcia and Nigel Planer just are also brilliant. What can I say other than...go and see it!!
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Wicked
Sept 13, 2006 20:42:16 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Sept 13, 2006 20:42:16 GMT 1
i saw it twice last year on Broadway and completely fell in love with it...and i'm seeing the London production on Tuesday night...can't wait. Defying Gravity is just brilliant...I love the ending..i've never watched the Wizard of Oz in the same way since
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Wicked
Sept 20, 2006 7:05:08 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Sept 20, 2006 7:05:08 GMT 1
So finally got to see my favourite musical last nite..after almost a year to the date...YAY...loved it to bits.... I still didn't like One Short Day...but i loved the goat...i felt for the goat..must have been the fact the goat was played by Martin Idina was amazing....she deserved EVERY applause and cheer she got...goosebumps during Wizard and I...no wonder she got a Tony.. Finally got to see Adam too....Boy has he got moves. Not my favourite Fiyero though ...i was distracted by someone called Jye Frasca? when is he Boq.....awwwwwwwww i finally got to see Jye...heehehehe I love Wicked...i love the lighting..i love the music...i've loved it for a year..and it's still WICKED!!! heheehehe and i loveeeeeeeee the ending...awwwwwwwwww.....louise and i were in tears AGAIN!! well i cried during as long as ur mine...it's such a touching moment...a "yeah" moment... not too sure about what they've done to Glinda...i prefer the mad mad Glinda...it makes songs like Popular and the lines soo much more funnier and have more meaning....when you have Elphie and the "ultra ultra dumb blonde" Glinda...that's just my opinion...but Helen was OK.. who played Nessa? it's too early for me to think and i have a plane to catch...she was AMAZING!! omg wow!! and James' Boq was great.... ok i should go now....hehehehe
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Wicked
Sept 24, 2006 16:53:55 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Sept 24, 2006 16:53:55 GMT 1
OMG i can see him...when i wasn't Adam, Martin or Idina spotting i was Jye spotting...he wasn't hard to miss...hahahahha...but i totally forgot about PAul....there ya go...when i go to Wicked again...i'll be adding Paul to that list hahahaah no jye?? [
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Wicked
Sept 26, 2006 11:56:33 GMT 1
Post by waterloo on Sept 26, 2006 11:56:33 GMT 1
I had my second trip to Wicked last night and it was even more amazing than the first! I was seated in the front row of the circle which actually wasn't a bad seat and certainly had its benefits during 'Defying Gravity'! It is a stunning show and as I have mentioned in other threads Idinas voice just blows you away, infact so much so that just after Defying Gravity (which leads into the interval) I looked at the lady next to me, she went to speak but nothing would come out, she was actually left speechless!! And the lady next to her was crying!!! I love it and have booked for my third trip already!!! The night was made better by going to the stage door afterwards and actually managing to meet Adam Garcia, Helen Dallimore (who was really lovely) and finally at 11.40...Idina!!! It was great....go see it!
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Wicked
Sept 28, 2006 7:57:13 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Sept 28, 2006 7:57:13 GMT 1
this is the Times one: BEFORE YOU SCROLL.... BEWARE THERE ARE SPOILERS!
!Wicked Benedict Nightingale at the Apollo Victoria WHAT next: a show about the young Cruella de Vil that reveals her to be a misunderstood waif who wistfully dreams of breeding Crufts champions, or a musical prequel in which the infant Cyclops tries to persuade his mother to bake chocolate cookies instead of cannibal kebabs? The big, spectacular, loud and sporadically tuneful Wicked is almost odder. It’s a spin-off from The Wizard of Oz that so thoroughly whitewashes the Wicked Witch of the West that I was left feeling about the show the way Lord Voldemort feels about Harry Potter.
But then Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s show seems aimed less at grouchy warlocks like me than at youngsters with a taste for the upbeat. That is why much of the first half resembles an American high-school flick in which teenage girls spend their days wrangling, making up and ogling the captain of the basketball team.
* Here, Helen Dallimore’s vain, pretty and very popular Galinda surprisingly becomes best friends with Idina Menzel’s bashful and very unpopular Elphaba — and both turn out to have a passion for the class Adonis, Adam Garcia’s cheerfully laid-back Fiyero.
So what does this have to do with The Wizard of Oz? Well, Elphaba was born with a green face and is doomed to become the witch whose death the citizens of Oz celebrate at the show’s very start.
“The wickedest witch there ever was is dead,” they sing in a brash variation of the song featured in the film version of The Wizard of Oz, looking as if they have bounced in from The Pickwick Papers and Gormenghast And then all becomes a sentimental, politically correct flashback.
The poor lass is a victim of differentism, uglyism and racism, all of which are bad, especially since she is interested only in curing her sister’s paralysis, protesting when the university fires the genteel goat that teaches her history and rescuing the flying monkeys that the Wizard of Oz has captured.
Yes, she’s a benign animal liberationist and the Emerald City is the centre of a cynical dictatorship that, as Nigel Planer’s bland old wiz explains, has chosen animals as the “really good enemies” any country needs. Something searingly topical and political here, eh? So Elphaba is forced to go on the run, or rather the broomstick, leaving us to follow an increasingly preposterous plot. There’s a dim boy called Boq, who is mistakenly transformed into the Tin Man, while the girl he forlornly loves, Dallimore’s Glinda, evolves from a cutie who skips about uttering chirrups of glee into the Good Fairy of the North and the Queen of Oz. Fiyero turns out to be a dull goody-goody who really loves Elphaba. More happily, Miriam Margolyes puts in a classy appearance as a magic-teacher who resembles a blend of Catherine the Great and a brocaded Victoria sofa.
Need I go on? Songs bang out, along with iffy lyrics and not-so-witty dialogue. Menzel’s Elphaba rises to the flies amid shafts of rainbow light. There are in-jokes about Dorothy, an annoying brat who is justly rebuked by the virtuous Elphaba for stealing her dead sister’s shoes.
But her mention left me feeling one thing only. I’d rather see The Wizard of Oz 20 times than this ersatz show once.
Box office: 0870 1611977
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Wicked
Sept 28, 2006 8:42:07 GMT 1
Post by iain on Sept 28, 2006 8:42:07 GMT 1
Oh dear! Perhaps not the overwhelming positive reaction they were hoping for
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Wicked
Sept 28, 2006 8:51:30 GMT 1
Post by Jazz on Sept 28, 2006 8:51:30 GMT 1
Oh dear! Perhaps not the overwhelming positive reaction they were hoping for same sort of reviews as Broadway....however....look at the following it developed afterwards...can't beat word of mouth
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