| Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End | | | | popular. Their friendship struggles through their |
| musical Wicked is an excited adaptation of the | | | | opposing dispositoins and viewpoints, rivalry over |
| best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of | | | | the same love-interest, their reactions to the |
| the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory | | | | Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, |
| Maguire and a parallel novel of L. Frank Baum's | | | | Elphaba's public fall from grace. Their buddy story |
| classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from | | | | is only one of several storylines and subplots in a |
| the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz. | | | | carefully constructed, surprise-filled musical |
| Wicked the musical is not Wicked the novel. While | | | | adventure. The music and lyrics are birilliantly |
| the novel is its source, the musical presents only | | | | selected and presented by Stephen Schwartz. |
| pieces of it, in a much simplified form, and often | | | | Wicked is a truly heartfelt story of friendship and |
| diverging wildly from the novel's narrative. One | | | | love. As Richard Zoglin of ‘Time Magazine' put |
| might be tempted to think all this destroys the | | | | it, "If every musical had a brain, a heart and the |
| work; but in the end it improves it, shining a bright | | | | courage of Wicked, Broadway really would be a |
| light on the story's numerous ironies and interlaced | | | | magical place!" |
| levels of social commentary. But the score of | | | | Wicked topped the nominations counts for all |
| Wicked musical is heavily thematic, bearing in | | | | Broadway shows with a total of ten nominations |
| some senses more resemblance to a film score | | | | and was Tony-award winner in three of them: |
| than a traditional musical score. | | | | Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a |
| The musical debuted on Broadway on October | | | | Musical - Idina Menzel; Best Scene Design - Eugene |
| 30, 2003. It was produced by Universal Pictures | | | | Lee. The musical garnered the most nominations |
| and directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging | | | | and Drama Desk awards of any show this |
| by Wayne Cilento. Choosing from the 38 speaking | | | | season. Wicked's final awards announced May 16, |
| characters in Wicked the novel, the authors of | | | | 2009 was: |
| Wicked the musical show decided to focus their | | | | - Oustanding Musical - Wicked, |
| show on eight key characters plus a few others | | | | - Outstanding Lyrics - Stephen Schwartz, |
| and the ensemble. Current San Francisco Cast | | | | - Outstanding Book - Winnie Holzman, |
| principals are: | | | | - Oustanding Costume Design - Susan Hilferty, |
| - Kendra Kassebaum as Glinda | | | | - Oustanding Set Design of a musical - Eugene |
| - Tim Talman as Witch's Father | | | | Lee |
| - Neka Zang as Witch's Mother | | | | - Oustanding Director of a Musical - Joe Mantello |
| - Fiama Fricano as The Midwife | | | | At the end of January 2009, Wicked began |
| - Teal Wicks as Elphaba | | | | showing in San Francisco. A second Wicked tour |
| - Deedee Magno Hall as Nessarose | | | | of the United States and Canada started on |
| - Eddy Rioseco as Boq | | | | March 7, 2009 at the Barbara B. Mann Performing |
| - Patty Duke as Madame Morrible | | | | Arts Hall in Fort Myers, FL. Now the tour |
| - Tom Flynn as Doctor Dillamond | | | | continues trough Memphis, TN, Tempe, AZ, Tulsa, |
| - Nicolas Dromard as Fiyero | | | | OK, San Diego, CA, Austin, TX, Seattle, WA, |
| - Tim Talman as The Ozian Official | | | | Nashville, TN, Des Moines, IA, Denver, CO, |
| - Lee Wilkof as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | | | | Wichita, KS, Kansas City, KS, Cleveland, OH, |
| - Everth Lopez as Chistery | | | | Schenectady, NY, Providence, RI. Others cities will |
| Wicked tells the story of Elphaba born with | | | | expect Wicked in 2010: Philadelphia, PA, Syracuse, |
| emerald-green skin, smart, fiery and | | | | NY, Greenville, SC, Dayton, OH, Miami, FL, |
| misunderstood, the future Wicked Witch of the | | | | Richmond, VA, Durham, NC, Toledo, OH, St. Louis, |
| West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good | | | | MO. |
| Witch of the North, beautiful, ambitious and very | | | | |