THE ORIGINAL WICKED LA CAST CATFIGHT/CORNFIELD SCENE.
EDEN ESPINOSA - ELPHABA, MEGAN HILTY - GLINDA, KRISTOFFER CUSICK - FIYERO.
EDEN DOESN'T CATCH THE HAT [IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN SOMETIME, RIGHT? IT'S PRETTY HARD TO CATCH SINCE IT'S REALLY LIGHT. WE AREN'T PERFECT :D], SO IT LOOKS AS IF ELPHABA WAS REJECTING IT BECAUSE SHE WAS MAD AT GLINDA, BUT OH WELL MEGAN STILL CARRIES ON WITH THE SCENE AND IT'S STILL AMAZING.
ENJOY! :]
Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.
WICKED, the untold story of the witches of Oz, features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman ("My So Called Life," "Once And Again" and "thirtysomething"), and is based on the best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire. WICKED started in New York at the Gershwin Theatre on October 31, 2003. With musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who's Tommy, How To Succeed...), WICKED is directed by 2003 and 2004 Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Assassins, Take Me Out, Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune).
Recommended age for children is 8 and up.
No children under 4 admitted.
No one will be admitted without a ticket.
Running time for the show is 2 hours and 30 minutes, plus a 15-minute intermission
Who I'd like to meet: MEET THE CHARACTERS:
-Character: Elphaba, (nickname Elphie) the green girl who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West
Elphaba is the intense, broody, smart heroine who often carries a sense of burden of her oddness.
In the musical we meet Elphaba for a moment as a baby and then as a teenager. She would like it if Ozians could accept her, setting aside their prejudice for her natural hue. Everything changes when she meets Galinda, Fiyero, and the Wizard. In her transition during "Defying Gravity," she expresses her new goal and role as someone striving to right the wrongs in Oz.
Wicked novelist Gregory Maguire invented the witch's name "Elphaba" based on the name for the author of The Wizard of Oz. L. F(rank) B(aum). L-F-B = Elphaba.
-Galinda, (Glinda) The blonde who becomes "Glinda the Good" Witch
In the musical they introduce Glinda as her younger self, Galinda Upland of the Upper Uplands, a blatantly self-centered young blond. Gregory Maguire disassociated her from an archetypal "good" to make her a pretentious goodie goodie. The musical's writers juxtaposed the two women who were superficially "bad (or misfit)" and "good" but underneath were nearly the opposite (until Glinda evolves as a person).
-Madame Morrible, the headmistress at Shiz University.
In the musical, her talents in sorcery are rather limited (although she recognizes talent in others). She doesn't influence the fate of the three witches in the musical in the same way as she does in the novel. She pursues her connections with Oz's chief. Her misuse of power is her undoing. Morrible is the only classic villain in this musical tale.
-Fiyero, a handsome prince, fellow student, and love interest.
Fiyero is a Winkie prince. The Winkies inhabit one of the regions of Oz (as in Frank Baum's original). He begins as a carefree college-age hedonist who invites fellow students to party. He transforms as his romantic interests shift...
-Dr. Dillamond, a professor at Shiz University who happens to be a talking Goat, and someone Elphaba befriends.
-The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
As in the movie, the Wizard of Oz is an old carnival huckster who blew into Oz in a hot air balloon and became a false-faced leader. But there's a twist in both Maguire's novel and the musical with regard to the relationship between the Wizard and Elphaba. [I wont' give that one away but if you read the novel carefully you will know what happens]
-Nessarose, the Witch 's invalid sister
Nessarose Thropp is Elphaba's sister. Gregory Maguire named her after Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa, known as "Nessa." According to the novelist, she was born both crippled and armless. On stage she has arms but is in a wheelchair.
-Boq, an unusually tall Munchkin from Munchkin Land with eyes for Galinda/Glinda. In the novel he is less significant than in the musical.
-Frex and Melina
The novel's early chapters set Elphaba's parents at odds at before birth. Readers learn about Melena, a former aristocrat who is terribly unhappy with her husband Frexpar, (a zealous missionary minister in the book). Her tactics for emotional survival include chewing on the leaves of a local narcotic plant and engaging in semiconscious affairs. From her first pregnancy comes a green-skinned child and though it is assumed that Frexpar is the father, there is some doubt. Between that, the daughter's odd color, and her queer behavior, the discombobulated parents create an estranged home life for their first child.
In the musical, Melina and Frex appear for only a few minutes during the birth scene at the end of Act 1, Scene 1. Frex is no longer a minister, but the Governor of Munchkinland. He cares only for his second child, Nessarose, which adds to Elphaba's frustrations.
-Other Various Characters:
-The Midwife
-Ozian Official
-Chistery
-Monkeys
-Students
-Denizens of the Emerald City
-Palace Guards
-And Other Citizens of Oz
For the productions with no casts listed, if you really want to find out you will have to search for it on your own. Sorry!
And also check out the Germany production's pro-shots! I think they're really good. Even though I don't know what they're saying, they sound good. Haha.
One more thing...it looks to me as if Wicked's taking over Europe. Whoa! Hehe.
Click to picture below to see the official Wicked fan forums!
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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. With Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest American fiction still read today.The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a priggish schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of eighteen-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, daughter of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who lost his head during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head." ."The denouement of the fictional tale is set at the bridge in the real location of the Old Dutch Burying Ground in Sleepy Hollow. The characters of Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel may have been based on local residents known to the author.
Sleepy Hollow (1999) is an historical horror film directed by Tim Burton, interpreting the legend of The Headless Horseman and based loosely around the Washington Irving story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The film was written by Andrew Kevin Walker and retooled by Tom Stoppard. It starred Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, and was scored by Tim Burton stalwart, Danny Elfman.Portions of the film's opening (featuring a dialogue-free Martin Landau cameo) were actually shot in New York State, not far from the actual town of Sleepy Hollow.~H
A nursery rhyme is a traditional song or poem taught to young children, originally in the nursery. Learning such verse assists in the development of vocabulary, and several examples deal with rudimentary counting skills. It also encourages children to enjoy music. Many cultures feature children's songs and verses that are passed down by oral tradition from one generation to the next. In the English language, the term "nursery rhyme" generally refers to those of European origin, and the best known examples are English and originated in or since the 17th century. Some nursery rhymes, however, are substantially older. "Sing a Song of Sixpence" exists in written records as far back as the Middle Ages.
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing. Now, wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king? The king was in his counting house, counting out his money. The queen was in the parlour, eating bread and honey. The maid was in the garden, hanging out the clothes, When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!
You run this myspace page very, very well. Most fan pages I've seen are cluttered with lots of photos and other things that make the page load slow. But yours is very nice! I run the Julia Murney's Wicked page so admire your page.
DON'T WORRY AUNTY EM..I AM JUST AS EXCITED AS YOU ARE..BECAUSE I LIVE IN AUSTRALIA..ITS A BONUS TO HAVE SEEN IT ALREADY..IN NY!! BY THE BY..IDINA, FANGORGICAL! I SAW IT APPROXIMATELY 2 WEEKS BEFORE SHE HAD THE OUCHIEEEE RIB! IDINA COME TO AUSTRALIA!! YOU WENT TO LONDON..COME ON! IT'S ONLY FAIR..
I read wrong. They're opening in Australia this month NEXT year. That is, if anyone else cares. I'm just stoked because it's going to be a big worldwide hit.
How do you get six years? Unless you count the years making the show, it's only been running for 4 years. Oh, and I just read Wicked is opening in Australia this month, and last month it opened in Japan. They did have Universal Studios Wicked, but this is a real show. IT'S SO AWESOME!
• In 1777, thirteen guns were fired, once at morning and again as evening fell, on July 4 in Bristol, Rhode Island. Philadelphia celebrated the first anniversary in a manner a modern American would find quite familiar: an official dinner for the Continental Congress, toasts, 13-gun salutes, speeches, prayers, music, parades, troop reviews and fireworks. Ships were decked with red, white and blue bunting.
• In 1778, General George Washington marked the Fourth of July with a double ration of rum for his soldiers and an artillery salute. Across the Atlantic Ocean, ambassadors John Adams and Benjamin Franklin held a dinner for their fellow Americans in Paris, France.
• In 1779, July 4 fell on a Sunday. The holiday was celebrated on Monday July 5.
• In 1781, Massachusetts was the first legislature to recognize the Fourth of July.
• In 1783, Moravians in Salem, North Carolina held the first celebration of the Fourth of July in the country with a challenging music program assembled by Johann Friedrich Peter. This work was titled the Psalm of Joy.
• In 1791, the first recorded use of the name "Independence Day".
• In 1870, the U.S. Congress made Independence Day a holiday, albeit unpaid, for federal employees
• In 1941, the U.S. Congress made Independence Day a federal paid holiday. The residents of Vicksburg, Mississippi celebrated the Fourth of July for the first time in 78 years, since the Siege of Vicksburg ended with a Union victory during the American Civil War on July 4, 1863.
