Wicked in Different Cities
Wicked cast is on tour in different cities. For more information see
Wicked Charlotte
Wicked Dallas
Wicked Houston
Wicked Philadelphia
Wicked Richmond
Wicked Tampa
Add comment December 23rd, 2009
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Jersey Boys Broadway
Jersey Boys is a documentary-style musical based on the lives of one of the most successful 1960s rock ‘n roll groups, the Four Seasons. Four boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all times: the Four seasons.
People went to buy jersey boys tickets and see them because they like the music, and they’ll be entertained by the telling of the story, which is done through an effective mix of both dialogue and song. Jersey Boys also provides a view of how city teenagers grew up in the 1950s and 1960s and what it was like to break into the rock and roll business in those days. Jersey boys wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were 30!”
Add comment August 31st, 2009
The winner of 10 Tony and Drama Desk awards
This year Billy Elliot the Musical hits the headlines in musical race. The best performance of his spectacular actors and extraordinary choreography are well liked by skeptic critics.
Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical based on a 2000 hit movie of the same name. The music is by Sir Elton John, and book and lyrics are by Lee Hall (who wrote the film’s screenplay).
The affected billy elliot tickets musical tells the story of a young boy and his difficult way to fulfill his dream. The tale is very realistic for those young people decided to realize in professional field that is not their strength and mind. This boy lived in a small mining town proves the statement that people might follow their heart and talent.
This Musical was nominated for nine Laurence Olivier Awards, winning four including Best New Musical. This year it has won 10 awards “Tony”, the most prestigious theatrical distinction, in New York, including best musical.
However, the performance failed to improve the record of 12 awards made by the musical “Producers” in 2001. The lead actor award was shared by three boys. For the first time in Tony history this award has been shared by three remarkable young actors: David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, and Kiril Kulish. After thanking their families and teachers, Kulish advises all kids who might want to dance not to give up. Trent Kowalik had never danced before starting his featuring in the musical.
He learnt ballet especially for his performance. For David Alvarez and Kiril Kulish their participations were very hard exam and they also needed to fulfill their schedule with all day training and practice. Billy Elliot won the Featured Actor prize for Gregory Jbara as Billy’s father, as well as awards for choreography (Peter Darling), set (Ian Macneil), lighting (Rick Fisher), sound (Paul Arditti) and a shared award for best orchestration.
The broadway shows production was also nominated for ten Drama Desk Awards, winning all ten, including Outstanding Musical, and for nine 2008-09 Outer Critics Circle Awards, wining seven, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, and also received a Special Achievement Award for its three Billys.
All critics were united in their praise for Billy Elliot the Musical. In the UK, The Mail wrote that it was truly electrifying and it has to be seen. The Sunday Express gave it 5 stars and said that all was pure magic. The Daily Telegraph were clear. They announced that it was the greatest British musical they had ever seen. The New York Post said that Billy Eliot will be the best show you will ever see.
Melbourne’s Age claims that 2008 had saved the best for last and Billy Elliot was a near perfect performance with a brilliant production. The Herald Sun maintains that this musical make you think anything is possible if you just believe.
Add comment July 9th, 2009
Wicked
Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End musical Wicked is an excited adaptation of the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire and a parallel novel of L. Frank Baum’s classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz. Wicked the musical is not Wicked the novel. While the novel is its source, the wicked san diego musical presents only pieces of it, in a much simplified form, and often diverging wildly from the novel’s narrative.
One might be tempted to think all this destroys the work; but in the end it improves it, shining a bright light on the story’s numerous ironies and interlaced levels of social commentary. But the score of musical is heavily thematic, bearing in some senses more resemblance to a film score than a traditional musical score.
The musical debuted on Broadway on October 30, 2003. It was produced by Universal Pictures and directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging by Wayne Cilento. Choosing from the 38 speaking characters in Wicked the novel, the authors of Wicked the musical show decided to focus their show on eight key characters plus a few others and the ensemble. Current San Francisco Cast principals are:
• Kendra Kassebaum as Glinda
• Tim Talman as Witch’s Father
• Neka Zang as Witch’s Mother
• Fiama Fricano as The Midwife
• Teal Wicks as Elphaba
• Deedee Magno Hall as Nessarose
• Eddy Rioseco as Boq
• Patty Duke as Madame Morrible
• Tom Flynn as Doctor Dillamond
• Nicolas Dromard as Fiyero
• Tim Talman as The Ozian Official
• Lee Wilkof as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Everth Lopez as Chistery
wicked cleveland tells the story of Elphaba born with emerald-green skin, smart, fiery and misunderstood, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Their friendship struggles through their opposing dispositoins and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, their reactions to the Wizard’s corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba’s public fall from grace. Their buddy story is only one of several storylines and subplots in a carefully constructed, surprise-filled musical adventure.
The music and lyrics are birilliantly selected and presented by Stephen Schwartz. Wicked is a truly heartfelt story of friendship and love. As Richard Zoglin of ‘Time Magazine’ put it, “If every musical had a brain, a heart and the courage of Wicked, Broadway really would be a magical place!”
Wicked topped the nominations counts for all Broadway shows with a total of ten nominations and was Tony-award winner in three of them: Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical - Idina Menzel; Best Scene Design - Eugene Lee. The musical garnered the most nominations and Drama Desk awards of any show this season. Wicked’s final awards announced May 16, 2009 was:
• Oustanding Musical - Wicked,
• Outstanding Lyrics - Stephen Schwartz,
• Outstanding Book - Winnie Holzman,
• Oustanding Costume Design - Susan Hilferty,
• Oustanding Set Design of a musical - Eugene Lee
• Oustanding Director of a Musical - Joe Mantello
At the end of January 2009, Wicked began showing in San Francisco. A second Wicked tour of the United States and Canada started on March 7, 2009 at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall in Fort Myers, FL. Now the tour continues trough Memphis, TN, Tempe, AZ, Tulsa, OK, San Diego, CA, Austin, TX, Seattle, WA, Nashville, TN, wicked des moines civic center, IA, Denver, CO, Wichita, KS, Kansas City, KS, Cleveland, OH, Schenectady, NY, Providence, RI. Others cities will expect Wicked in 2010: Philadelphia, PA, Syracuse, NY, Greenville, SC, Dayton, OH, Miami, FL, Richmond, VA, Durham, NC, Toledo, OH, St. Louis, MO.
Add comment July 3rd, 2009
2M watched Wicked the musical play in London
In testament of its popularity, wicked, the hit musical play achieves its two million theatregoers at the London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre.
Since opening on the said venue in September 2006, Wicked London recently celebrated its 1000th performance.
WICKED continues to break Box Office records, most recently during the Easter fortnight where it achieved a combined gross of £1,416,824.50 with almost 36,000 seeing the show. The week commencing 6 April was the production’s highest grossing 8-show week, playing to 99.8% capacity. WICKED has grossed almost £75 million at the Box Office since opening.
In addition to the London production, the international hit musical is also currently running in North America (four productions), Japan, Germany and Australia.
The global hit musical is also currently being played at the fabulous Broadway theater shows in New York.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Gregory Maguire that re-imagined the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, WICKED tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students. Their extraordinary adventures in birthday messages Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as ‘Glinda The Good’ and the ‘Wicked Witch of the West’.
Those theatre fanatics who wish to see world-class performance should make it a point to watch Wicked the musical live.
Theatre fans who had yet to see this popular musical should make it a point to see it live.
Add comment May 24th, 2009
Wicked the musical draws record crowd in every performance
THEATER loving fans should not miss the chance to watch Wicked the Musical live in Broadway.
Since the globally renowned wicked musical play opened in Broadway in October 2003 it always draws a record crowd in its every performance.
Wicked the musical is about the untold story of the witches of Oz and is loosely based on the best selling novel ‘ by Gregory Maguire. The musical features music and lyrics by Stephen
Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. With musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento.
The musical opened on Broadway on October 30, 2003 at the Gershwin Theatre.
The original cast included Idina Menzel as Elphaba, Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, and Joel Grey as The Wizard.
Business and popularity boomed due to very good word-of-mouth, and the box office was boosted when the show was nominated for ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical. (It subsequently lost that award, however, along with the Tony Awards for best score
and best book, to another new musical of the season, Avenue Q). Menzel was named Best Actress in a Musical. Wicked Austin Tickets are on sale and is going to start from 12 August 2009.
The musical received two additional awards—to Eugene Lee for scenic design and Susan Hilferty for costume design.
The cast recording received a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.
October 30 - 2003 - sms Idina Menzel - Elphaba - Kristin Chenoweth - Glinda - Joel Grey - The Wizard - Tony Awards - Best Musical - Avenue Q - Best Actress in a Musical - Cast recording - Grammy Award
Wicked earned back its entire initial investment by December 21, 2004. In its first year it grossed more than $56 million with Wicked New York Tickets.
The show, which is open-ended, has been playing to capacity crowds for almost every recent performance and grosses more than a million dollars every week. The show had a $14 million capitalization.
If you have not seen Wicked the musical grab the opportunity to watch it live now.
Be thrilled and dazzled by this popular musical by personally buying tickets and watching it live.
Add comment May 6th, 2009
Advice From The Internets
Broadway theater pertains to the theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York (plus one theatre in Lincoln Center) in Manhattan, New York City.
Along with London’s West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
The Broadway theatre district is a popular tourist attraction in New York City. According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold approximately $937 million worth of tickets in the 2007-08 season. Now Wicked San Francisco is the hot show these days.
Add comment May 4th, 2009