Evil is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, an alternate alternative to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film 1939 The Wizard of Oz > and 1900 L. Frank Baum's classic novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . Musical is told from the point of view of the witches of the Land of Oz; the plot begins before and continues after Dorothy Gale's arrival in Oz from Kansas, and that includes some references to the 1939 film and the novel Baum.
Produced by Universal Stage Productions in a coalition with Marc Platt, Jon B. Platt and David Stone, with lead by Joe Mantello and choreography by Wayne Cilento, original production of Wicked premiered on Broadway at Gershwin Theater in October 2003, after completing a pre-Broadway tryout at San Francisco's Curran Theater in May/June 2003. The original stars include Idina Menzel as Elphaba, Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, and Joel Gray as the Witch. The original Broadway productions won three Tony Awards and six Drama Desk Awards, while the original cast album received a Grammy Award.
Evil celebrates its tenth anniversary on Broadway on October 30, 2013. On February 9, 2018, with its 5,960 show, it goes beyond Oh! Calcutta! to be Broadway's 7th longest show. Typical performance takes about two hours and 30 minutes, plus a 15 minute pause.
The success of Broadway's production has spawned several other productions around the world, including North American production, the production of the nominated West End Laurence Olivier Award and a series of international productions. Since its debut in 2003, Wicked has broken box office records worldwide, currently holding a weekly-gross note-taking in Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, and London. In the week ending January 2, 2011, London, Broadway and North America's two production tours simultaneously broke their respective records for the highest weekly gross. In the last week of 2013, Broadway production broke this record again, earning $ 3.2 million. West End production and North American tours are each seen by more than two million customers.
In March 2016, Wicked surpassed $ 1 billion in total Broadway revenue, joining The Phantom of the Opera and The Lion King as the only show Broadway. to do it. In July 2017, Wicked surpassed The Phantom of the Opera as the second best-selling Broadway show, just following The Lion King .
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Inception dan pengembangan
Composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz found the novel writer Gregory Maguire in 1995 on vacation and saw his potential for dramatic adaptations. Maguire, however, has released rights to Universal Pictures, which has planned to develop feature film live-action. In 1998, Schwartz persuaded Maguire to release the rights to stage production while also making what Schwartz called a "fiery plea" to Universal producer Marc Platt to realize Schwartz's own adaptation. Persuaded, Platt signed a contract as a joint project producer with Universal and David Stone.
The novel, described as a political, social, and ethical commentary on good and evil, took place in Oz Land, in the years leading to Dorothy's arrival. The story centers on Elphaba, the obscure, clever, fiery emerald green girl who grew up to the wicked Evil West Witch and Galinda, the pretty, blond, popular girl who grew up to be the Good Witch Glinda of the South. The story is divided into five different sections based on the location of the plot and presents the events, characters and situations of L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and the 1939 film adaptation in a new way. It's designed to set the reader to think about what exactly 'bad' is, and whether goodwill with bad results is the same as bad intent with bad results. Schwartz considers the best way to solidify the solid plot and complicate the novel into a plausible script. For this purpose, he collaborated with Emmy Award-winning writer Winnie Holzman to develop a plot outline for a year while meeting producer Marc Platt to refine the structural outline of the show, turning the original stage part rather than creating a tight adaptation of Maguire's work.
While the draft follows Maguire's idea to retell the story of the 1939 film from the perspective of the main villain, the storyline adaptes the stage "far away" from the novel. As Holzman observed in an interview with Playbill, it was a brilliant idea [Maguire] to take this hated figure and tell something from his point of view, and to have two magicians become roommates on campus, but the way their friendship develops - and is really a whole plot - different on stage. "Schwartz justifies the irregularities, saying" Especially we are interested in the relationship between Galinda - who becomes Glinda - and Elphaba... the friendship of these two women and how their character leads them towards a completely different destiny. " In addition to this change of focus, other major plot modifications include the appearance of Fiyero as a scarecrow, the survival of Elphaba at the end, Nessarose using a wheelchair instead of being born without arms, Boq had a constant love interest for Glinda - and eventually became Timah Woodman instead Nick Chopper, the complete cuts of Elphaba's years at Vinkus, the abolition of Liir's birth, Fiyero had no wife and children, and Doctor Dillamond was not murdered.
Books, lyrics and scores for musicals were developed through a series of readings. For this development workshop, Kristin Chenoweth, the Tony Award-winning actress Stephen Schwartz thought while composing music for characters, joined the project as Glinda. Stephanie J. Block plays Elphaba in all the workshops, (she is the original Elphaba on the 1st National Tour and joins the Broadway player later) before fellow Idina Menzel players took part in her role at the end of 2000. In early 2000, the creators recruited New Producer York, David Stone, who started the production workshop transition into a full Broadway production. Joe Mantello was taken as director and Wayne Cilento as a choreographer, while Tony Award-winning designer Eugene Lee created the set and visual style for production based on both the original WW Denslow illustrations for the novel Baum and the Maguire concept of the story told through the giants. hour. Costume designer Susan Hilferty created the style of "Edward play" through over 200 costumes, while lighting designer Kenneth Posner used over 800 individual lights to give each of 54 different scenes and locations "her own mood". In April 2003, a full player was collected and the show was preparing for his debut.
On May 28, 2003, Wicked's first appearance was held at Curran Theater in San Francisco, as the beginning of pre-Broadway SHN. Having officially opened on June 10, 2003, it runs there for a month and finishes on June 29, 2003. The audience's reaction is mostly positive and although critics tend to praise the aesthetics and spectacle of the show, they underestimated the state of his book, score, and choreography. Dennis Harvey of Variety commented positively on the production of "sleekly directed", "snazzily designed" and "smartly cast" but still disapproved of the "mediocre", "trite" lyrics and most generic "music" "while Karen D'Souza of San Jose Mercury News wrote that" Style beyond substance is a real theme in this Emerald City. " Taking into account the mixed response, the creative team began to make extensive changes, adjusting it before transferring to Broadway. Winnie Holzman states, "Stephen [Schwartz] has wisely insisted on having three months to rewrite between the time we were closed in San Francisco and when we had to go back to practice in New York it was the thing that made the biggest difference in the life of the show.That time was what made the show work. "
The book elements are rewritten while some songs undergo minor transformations. This included the exclusion of "The Way of a Party?", An introductory song for the Fiyero character, which was substituted by "Dancing Through Life" in Schwartz's fear that the former failed to be "a clear expression of Fiyero's philosophy of life." " Elfaba of Menzel is "little overshadowed" by Chenoweth's Glinda. San Francisco Chronicle critic Robert Hurwitt writes, "The very intense Elfaba of Menzel is the Wicked Witch [needs] to have the opportunity to hold his own with the glorious Chenoweth, Glinda is quietly bubbling, "so the creative team begins to characterize it." On the issue of the Broadway revision, Schwartz recalled, "It's clear there's work to be done and revisions to be done in books and scores. The community is critical, frankly, very helpful to us. We learned a lot from the reviews, which are honest and constructive in the aggregate group, unlike New York, where critics make up their minds before they come to the theater. "On October 30, 2003, the musical was opened on Broadway.
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Plot
Act Me
In the Land of Oz, there are many celebrations; The people of Ozia rejoice over the death of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West ("Nobody Lost the Wicked"). Glinda also arrives to congratulate Dorothy Gale for restoring peace to the Land until an Ozian asks him if he and Elphaba are friends. He reluctantly acknowledges that they are, leading Glinda to tell them the story of how they became good friends. A flashback begins with a scene at school, Shiz University, where Elphaba arrives. Elphaba is the daughter of the governor of Munchkinland - but it is very implied that she is the product of the relationship between the mysterious governor's wife and the mysterious stranger and a bottle of "green elixir", which as a result Elphaba was born with a green skin. Her father hates her and gives affection to her sister, Nessarose, who is physically disabled and uses a wheelchair. The two sisters went to Shiz University, where the beautiful and popular Glinda, previously known as Galinda, was also in their class ("Dear Old Shiz"). When their father said goodbye, he gave Nessarose a pair of silver sandals. The principal, Madame Morrible, decides to take Nessarose under his protection, leaving Elphaba and Galinda as their coworkers. Elphaba tries to take back his sister, and his anger manifests physically in an explosion. Madame Morrible admits that she has special powers and decides to teach her magic. He tells Elphaba that his strength might allow him to one day work with the Wizard of Oz, something Elphaba has dreamed of his whole life ("The Wizard and I"). All of this does little to elicit Elphaba's love for Galinda and that feeling is mutual ("What is this Feeling?"). They continue to struggle, even in their classes, like their history class with Dr. Dillamond, the only Veterinary professor at the university who began to suffer discrimination. He tells Elphaba that there is a conspiracy to stop Animal from speaking, and he wants to let the Wizard know, because he will definitely stop it ("Something Bad").
Meanwhile, Prince Fiyero has arrived at Shiz and shared his life philosophy ("Dancing Through Life"). They all decided to have a party that night. Boq, a Munchkin who has developed a crush on Galinda, tries to invite him to a party, but he assures him instead of asking for Nessarose out of pity, leaving him free to go with Fiyero. Nessarose was happy and told his sister how Galinda helped it happen. When Galinda gave the ugly hat prize for Elphaba to wear at the party, Elphaba regarded it as an act of kindness. At the party that night, Boq tried to tell Nessarose the real reason he invited her but was too good to hurt his feelings. He continues to fall in love with her. Mrs Morrible arrives to tell Galinda that she can join her magic class, at the request of Elphaba. Elphaba himself arrives, wearing a magician's hat, only to find the other students laughing and staring as he awkwardly dances on his own. Galinda felt remorse and went dancing with Elphaba. Soon everyone joined them, and the two girls looked at each other in a new light.
Back in their room, they keep bound. Galinda decided to give Elphaba a change ("Popular"). When Elphaba arrives in class the next day, Fiyero looks at Galinda's influence and tells Elphaba that he does not need to change. Dillamond came in to tell the class that he had been ostracized. Elphaba wants to help, but no one will support him. After that, the students are introduced to the cage, which will make the Animals controlled, so they never learn to talk. Elphaba's anger can not be restrained, and in the ensuing chaos he and Fiyero steal the lion's son in the cage and run away.
Fiyero is disappointed about what happened, but he is taken by the spirit of Elphaba. He begins to fall in love with her and they share a gentle moment before he goes to free the lion's son. Elphaba reminds himself that it's no use expecting something to happen between them ("I'm Not That Girl"). Madame Morrible came to tell her that the Witch had decided to meet her. Nessarose and Galinda came to meet him, and Fiyero also met him. Galinda tries to win his respect by changing his name to "Glinda", in solidarity with Dr. Dillamond, who always mispronounced his name. But Fiyero was not impressed, saying goodbye to Elphaba instead. Elphaba invites Glinda to the Emerald City with him ("One Short Day").
The girls meet the Witch, who turns out not to be as intimidating as they think ("A Sentimental Man"). He promises Elphaba that he will grant his wish if he proves himself. Madame Morrible appears; he is the new "Press Secretary" Wizard. He gave Elphaba an ancient spell book, called "Grimmerie," which can only be read miraculously. Elphaba was asked to try the levitation spell on the Wizard maidservant, Chistery. However, his spell does not match Elphaba's plan when Chistery raises his wings, and he realizes that the Wizard is behind the oppression of Animals. He does a spell on all of them. Elphaba realizes that the Wizard has no strength; he's just a scam. He offers him and Glinda everything they want if they will help him, but Elphaba will not obey him. He ran away, and to prevent the truth from coming out, Madame Morrible spread the report that Elphaba was "evil". It simply reaffirms Elphaba's belief that he should not let anyone withhold it. He does a spell on a broom and flies away from Emerald City, never to return ("Defying Gravity").
Act II
Sometime later, Elphaba's opposition to the Witch's regime had earned him the title of "The Wicked Witch of the West". Glinda has become a positive public front of the Wizard regime, titled "Glinda the Good" and positioned by Morrible as the nation's defender against the Witch. A press conference to celebrate the appointment of Fiyero as the Captain of the Guard (the position he had received to find Elphaba) was hijacked by a panicked rumor about a witch, including the story that he would be melted by water. Fiyero believed and was not convinced by Glinda's insistence that Elphaba did not want to be found. She became even more angry when Morrible announced her engagement to Glinda and ran away. Glinda tries to keep a cheerful front for the press, but obviously she realizes the life of her dream has come at a great price ("Thank God").
Elphaba makes a visit to Nessarose, who is now governor of Munchkinland after the death of their father, whom Nessarose says "died of shame" when he heard what Elphaba did. Nessarose has taken the rights of Munchkins in a desperate attempt to keep Boq at his side. Elphaba tries to convince his sister to fight him against the Witch, but Nessarose is more concerned with his own problems. Elphaba tries to help by giving Nessarose the strength to walk by turning the silver slippers into the "Ruby Sandals". Convinced that Boq should love him now, Nessarose called him, but he only saw this as proof that he did not need it anymore. Hurt, Nessarose picked up Elphaba's spell book and tried to cast a spell to make Boq fall in love with her. However, the mantra backfires, making it a "Wicked Witch from the East", discouraging Boq. Elphaba had to work another spell to save his life, if in a slightly different condition than before. When Boq woke up, he was disgusted at his new country as being made out of a can, and Nessarose told him that Elphaba was the one doing this to him.
Elphaba returns to the Witch's castle to free the monkey maids and comes to the Wizard itself. He tries once again to convince him to work with him, tells him that he is not evil - just an average man who comes into his position by chance, causes to live by the respect of the Ozians, and he offers to atone for Elphaba's reputation (" ). He almost wins until he sees Dr. Dillamond, who lost the power to speak. Angered by this, Elphaba accuses the witch, but the Wizard summoned the guards to capture Elphaba for fraud. In response, Fiyero and the guards entered, followed by Glinda. However, Fiyero even helped Elphaba escape and decided to go with him. Despite the heartbreak of the switching side of Fiyero with Elphaba, Glinda suggested to Wizard and Madame Morrible that the way to recapture Elphaba is to use his sister as a live bait, allowing the officials to recapture Elphaba once and for all. He grieves that Fiyero has sided with Elphaba ("I'm Not the Girl, Reprise").
Elphaba and Fiyero were both surprised by the strength of their feelings for each other, and promised to always be together ("As Long As You're Mine"). Their happiness was disturbed when Elphaba suddenly had the vision of flying home in the sky and Nessarose was in danger. Before Elphaba went to investigate, Fiyero talked about a castle whose family could live in.
Glinda and Elphaba meet again at the site of Nessarose being destroyed by a house with a girl named Dorothy inside. Fueled by competition over Fiyero, both have hot arguments. The guards arrive and overcome Elphaba, who suspects that Glinda is organizing all this. Fiyero arrives and holds the Glinda hostage until Elphaba is allowed to be free. Glinda begged the guards not to harm him, but they did not listen when they escorted Fiyero to the field where they could interrogate and torture him (by crucifixion) into revealing the existence of Elphaba. Elphaba tried to chant a spell to protect him but was disappointed by his limited strength. He decided that, from this point on, he would live up to his reputation as the Wicked Western Witch ("No Good Deed").
Then, back to the Oz capital, all Oz residents declare war on Elphaba because of Madame Morrible and Boq's testimony against him. Glinda has noticed that Morrible, who can control the weather, is responsible for Nessarose's death, but when he is about to accuse him, Morrible just reminds him that there is blood in his hand as well. Glinda fled in horror to warn Elphaba as the angry mob began to take Kiamo Ko by force ("March of the Witch Hunters").
Back to Kiamo Ko, Elphaba has captured Dorothy, refusing to release her until she releases Nessarose's sandals - the only thing left of her dead sister. Glinda travels to Elphaba's castle to warn him of danger and persuade him to let Dorothy go. Elphaba refused until he received a letter saying that Fiyero had died. Both women forgive each other, admitting that they both made mistakes. To help him in his future, Elphaba gives Grimmerie to Glinda. The two friends embrace for the last time before saying goodbye ("For Good"). When the masses arrive, Elphaba tells Glinda to hide, and he sees helplessly from the shadows as Dorothy throws a bucket of water to Elphaba, who seems to be devastated. Shocked, Glinda noticed that all that remained of her friend was her black hat and a small bottle of green elixir.
In the Emerald City, Glinda confronts the Witch with a bottle of Elphaba, which she recognizes as identical to hers. He is the biological father of Elphaba and the cause of his green skin. He is broken in grief, and Madame Morrible suspects that Elphaba's power is so strong because he is the son of two worlds. Glinda drove the Wizard from Oz and sent Madame Morrible to jail for murder.
Meanwhile, back to the castle, Fiyero (now a scarecrow) comes to the place where Elphaba is melted. Ensuring no one is watching, he knocks on the floor and exits the door of Elphaba's trap, very alive; it was all a hoax to convince his enemies about his death and ensure his future with Fiyero, who turned into a scarecrow by his spell accidentally. Before leaving, Elphaba lamented that he would never see Glinda again and tell him that they were alive. Simultaneously, back to the starting point of the musical, Glinda promised the Oz people to earn the title as Glinda the Good. As people celebrate and Glinda mourns, Elphaba and Fiyero leave Oz forever ("Finale").
Cast
Original cast member
Note Kristy Cates started the 1st National Tour as Elphaba on March 8, 2005, while Blok came out with an injury, and Blok returned to the role on March 25, 2005.
Other cast members
- Louise Dearman is the first actress who currently has played Glinda and Elphaba in full, after playing Glinda from 2010-2011 and Elphaba from 2012-2013, both in West End production.
- Marcie Dodd is the only actress who currently has played both Elphaba and Nessarose when she starred as Elphaba on Broadway after playing Nessarose in Los Angeles.
- Gina Beck is the first player to play Glinda on both sides of the Atlantic (West End and National Tour 1st production).
- Willemijn Verkaik, who has created the role of Elphaba for previous German and Dutch productions, joined Broadway production for a limited run in 2013, becoming the first actress to appear in three different language productions. Later that year, he was transferred to a London company and made his West End debut.
- Jennifer DiNoia has played a role in four countries (seven productions), more than any other artist and became the fourth actress to have played a role in both Broadway and West End.
- Miriam Margolyes is the only actress who currently plays Madame Morrible in the West End (original cast) and on Broadway, when she repeats her performance at Gershwin in 2008.
- Tom McGowan is the only actor today who has played The Wizard on both Broadway and West End, when he joined the London company in 2015.
- Suzie Mathers is the only actor currently playing Glinda in Britain and Australia.
- Willemijn Verkaik is the longest Elphaba performing his role over 2,000 times.
- Danna Paola is the youngest actress to play Elphaba's role at the age of 18 at the opening, with Sabrina Weckerlin (Stand-By for German production) becoming the second youngest at the age of 21.
- In July 2017, Sophie Evans became the youngest actress to play the role of Glinda in the West End, 24 years old at the start of her contract.
- Amy Goodwin, from her second UK tour, holds a rare distinction to cover both Elphaba and Glinda roles on the same contract. On April 25, 2018, he officially became the second person to play both roles.
- From July 23, 2018, identical twins, Luke and Tom Woollaston, will star in the two different production ensembles Wicked , with Luke appearing on the UK Tour and Tom appearing in West End production.
Music number
not present at Original Broadway Cast Recording
- "No One Mourns the Wicked (Reprise)" and "Thank Goodness" are presented as a single track on Original Cast Recording.
Music and recordings
Music analysis
The Wicked score is very thematic, with some notions more akin to film scores than traditional music scores. While many music scores use new motives and melodies for each song with little overlap, Schwartz integrates a handful of main motifs throughout production. Some of these motifs show irony - for example, when Galinda presents Elphaba with a "terrible" hat in "Dancing through Life", his score features the theme of "What is this Feeling?" some of the previous scenes, where Elphaba and Glinda have supported their shared hatred.
Two music themes in Wicked run throughout the score. Although Schwartz rarely reuses the motives or melodies of his earlier work, the first - the theme of Elphaba - comes from The Survival of St. Joan , where she works as a music director. "I've always liked this song and I never know what to do with it," he said in an interview in 2004. The first chord he wrote in 1971 became the main theme of the event's orchestra. By changing the instrument that carries the motive in each instance, Schwartz allows the same melody to convey a different atmosphere. In inauguration, the song is carried by the brass parts of the orchestra, with heavy percussion. The result is, in Schwartz's own words, "like a giant shadow that terrorizes you". When played by a piano with some electric bass on "As Long As You're Mine", however, the same chord becomes the basis for a romantic duet. And with new lyrics and changed bridges, the theme forms the core of the song "No One Mourns the Wicked" and its reprises.
Schwartz used the theme "Unlimited" as the second major motif to penetrate the score. Although not included as a song entitled, the theme appears as a distraction in some music numbers. In tribute to Harold Arlen, who wrote the score for the 1939 film adaptation, the "Unlimited" melody incorporated the first seven notes of the song "Over the Rainbow." Schwartz put it as an inside joke like, "according to copyright law, when you get to the eighth note, then people can come and say, 'Oh, you stole our song.' And of course obviously it's also disguised in that it's completely different rhythmically, and it's also altogether different... It's more of a different chord and so on, but still these are the first seven notes of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow 'Schwartz further obscures the original motif by setting it in a minor key in most instances, it also creates a contrast in the songs in which it forms the part, for example in "Defying Gravity", written primarily in the main D-flat key. "The Wicked Witch of the East", however, when Elphaba finally uses his power to let his sister walk, the "Unlimited" theme is played in the primary key.
Recordings
Footage of the original Broadway production was released on December 16, 2003, by Universal Music. All the songs featured on the stage are present on the record with the exception of "The Wizard and I (Reprise)" and "The Wicked Witch of the East". The brief reprise of "No One Mourns the Wicked" which opens Act II is attached at the beginning of "Thank Goodness". The music is arranged by Stephen Oremus, who is also the conductor and director of music and James Lynn Abbott, with orchestration by William David Brohn. The recording received a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2005 and was certified platinum by the RIAA on November 30, 2006. The album was certified double platinum on November 8, 2010. A fifth-anniversary anniversary edition of the original Broadway cast tape was released on 28 October 2008, with bonus CDs including songs from Japanese and German recording players, "Making Good" - a song subsequently replaced by "The Wizard and I" - sung by Stephanie J. Block with Schwartz at the piano, "I'm Not That Girl "by Kerry Ellis (featuring Brian May on guitar), Menzel dance mix of" Defying Gravity "and" For Good "sung by LeAnn Rimes and Delta Goodrem.
The German recording of the Stuttgart production was released on December 7, 2007, featuring a list of songs and settings that are identical to the Broadway recordings. Japanese player footage was released on July 23, 2008, featuring original Tokyo players. It is important to be the only Cast Album of the event that includes the Finale Glinda dialogue.
Orchestration
Productions
Original Broadway production
North American Production
In 2005, the first nationwide tour Wicked (called "Emerald City Tour" by producers) began in Toronto, Ontario, and has since visited many cities across the United States and Canada. Stephanie J. Block was set to open the tour as Elphaba with a preview starting March 8, but after suffering a minor injury in training, Kristy Cates temporarily took her place. As such, the review is delayed until the following day. After some delays, Block made its debut on March 25, and the tour officially opened on March 31st. The original tour players also included Kendra Kassebaum as Glinda, Derrick Williams as Fiyero, Jenna Leigh Green as Nessarose, Carol Kane as Madame Morrible, Timothy Britten Parker as Doctor Dillamond, Logan Lipton as Boq, and David Garrison as Wizard. After a decade of the show, the tour ended at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles on March 15, 2015. The tour played 4,160 shows at 124 engagements, and grossed $ 790 million ($ 1.5 million a week on average). It was seen by 10.3 million people in 55 cities. The cover actors include Jennifer DiNoia as Elphaba, Chandra Lee Schwartz as Glinda, Nick Adams as Fiyero, Kim Zimmer as Madam Morrible, Team Kazurinsky as The Wizard, Jenny Florkowski as Nessarose, Tom Flynn as Doctor Dillamond and Etai Benson as Boq.
While the original tour player intended to play a limited engagement from April 29 to June 12, 2005 at the Oriental Theater in Chicago, the producers decided to extend it to the open run, making it the first non-Broadway seated production of Evil. Opened in the same Chicago theater the day after the tour was completed, original Chicago cast members included Ana Gasteyer as Elphaba, Kate Reinders as Glinda, Rondi Reed as Madame Morrible, Kristoffer Cusick as Fiyero, Telly Leung as Boq, Heidi Kettenring as Nessarose and Gene Weygandt as Wizard. Production closed on January 25, 2009, after more than 1,500 shows. Production tour back to Chicago for a special engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theater from December 1, 2010 to January 23, 2011. In celebration of the music's 10th anniversary, the tour plays back an eight-week engagement, returning to the Oriental Theater, from 30 October to 21 December 2013.
Open production also appeared in Los Angeles, California at Pantages Theater. The show began on February 10, 2007, with the official opening on 21 February. Megan Hilty and the original Broadway standby Eden Espinosa respectively Glinda and Elphaba while Carol Kane is Mistress Morber, Timothy Britten Parker is Doctor Dillamond, Jenna Leigh Green is Nessarose, Adam Wylie is Boq, Kristoffer Cusick is Fiyero, and John Rubinstein is the Witch. Production closed on January 11, 2009, after 791 performances and 12 previews. The first national tour production returns to Pantages Theater for a limited engagement from November 30, 2011 to January 29, 2012. Another engagement is played at the Pantages Theater for a long period that runs from December 10, 2014 to the closing tour show on March 15, 2015. LA production is also featured in "Something Wicked This Way Comes", an episode of 2007 Ugly Betty , as a Broadway production of Wicked , which is the setting and plot of the episode point.
Production of San Francisco Wicked was officially opened on February 6, 2009, at SHN's Orpheum Theater, after a preview of January 27th. The players include Teal Wicks as Elphaba, Kendra Kassebaum as Glinda, Nicolas Dromard as Fiyero, Carol Kane as Madame Morrible, David Garrison as a Witch, Deedee Magno Hall as Nessarose, Tom Flynn as Doctor Dillamond, and Eddy Rioseco as Boq. Production closed on 5 September 2010, after 672 performances and 12 previews with Marcie Dodd as Elphaba and Alli Mauzey as Glinda. The first national tour company ended their second San Francisco engagement at the Orpheum Theater, which runs from January 23 to February 17, 2013.
The second national tour Wicked (called "Munchkinland Tour") began in 2009 with a preview on March 7 and the official opening night of March 12 at Barbara B. Mann's Performing Arts Hall in Fort Myers, Florida. As the first, the production of this tour has since visited many cities throughout North America. The original cast starring Marcie Dodd as Elphaba, HelÃÆ' Â © ne Yorke as Glinda, Colin Donnell as Fiyero, Kristine Reese as Nessarose, Marilyn Caskey as Madame Morrible, David deVries as Doctor Dillamond, Ted Ely as Boq and Tom McGowan as Wizard.
London
Production West End started a preview at the Apollo Victoria Theater starting September 7, and was officially opened on 27 September 2006. Production is currently booked until 24 May 2019 and celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2011 with a special curtain call featuring former West End cast. London production is adjusted slightly for UK audiences, including small creative changes to dialogue, choreography and special effects. Most of these changes are then incorporated into all Wicked productions . The changes include Elphaba meeting Fiyero when he first arrived at Shiz University. In addition, the waltz between Elphaba and Wizard for Wonderful has been deleted.
Production West End reunites the original creative team of the show with Idina Menzel, who has started the role of Elphaba in the Broadway production. The original cast members of London include Helen Dallimore as Glinda, Miriam Margolyes as Madame Morrible, Adam Garcia as Fiyero, Martin Ball as Doctor Dillamond, James Gillan as Boq, Katie Rowley Jones as Nessarose and Nigel Planer as Wizard. After her limited engagement, Menzel was replaced by Kerry Ellis, who became the first British woman to play the role of Elphaba and the following year, the second actress to play Elphaba on both Broadway and in West End production.
The autism-friendly appearance was given on May 14, 2016 in conjunction with the National Autistic Society. Wicked London celebrates its 10th anniversary on September 27, 2016, with Rachel Tucker repeating her role. The players also include Suzie Mathers and Anita Dobson.
U.K. and the Irish Tour
The show embarked on its first national tour in England and Ireland on September 12, 2013 at the Palace Theater in Manchester, where it was played until November 16th. Then play Dublin in 2013, and in 2014, Milton Keynes, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Southampton and Edinburgh. In 2015, the tour visits Plymouth, Bristol, Sunderland and Aberdeen, before ending in Salford on July 25, 2015.
The original cast consists of former West End player, Nikki Davis-Jones as Elphaba, with former ensemble member from West End production, Emily Tierney, as Glinda. Together they are Liam Doyle as Fiyero, Marilyn Cutts as Madame Morrible, Carina Gillespie as Nessarose and George Ure, who repeat his role as Boq of West End production. For the first time, the role of The Wizard and Doctor Dillamond is played by a single actor, Dale Rapley. At that time, the only other actor who played both roles in one performance was David Stoller of London in November 2008, but this was only because of the absence of several actors.
Another former West End actor, Ashleigh Gray, took over Elphaba's position for a second tour contract, making him the second actress after Davis-Jones played a part in both the West End and the British production tour. Initially, Davis-Jones would go back to the London company and lead his players, but, it was then announced that, towards the end of his journey in August 2014, he had resigned from the tour and then would not appear in the West End.
The second UK and Ireland tour will begin in December 2017 and will continue until at least January 2019. Casting for the Tour was announced in September 2017, with newcomer Wicked Amy Ross starring Elphaba, and Helen Woolf - Glinda's former pioneer in West End production and UK National Tour - starring as Glinda. Former Iddon Jones International (Boq) tour members Emily Shaw (Nessarose), Kim Ismay (Madame Morrible) and Steven Pinder (Doctor Dillamond & The Wizard) repeated their previous roles, while the players were rounded up by newcomer Aaron Sidwell evil as Fiyero. Nikki Bentley also joined the production as a Standby for Elphaba.
International Tour
Wicked's first international tour opened on July 13, 2016 at the Alhambra Theater in Bradford, England. Jacqueline Hughes plays Elphaba with Jodie Steele as an alternative, with Carly Anderson as Glinda and Bradley Jaden as Fiyero. Most of the players are alumni from previous UK and Ireland tours.
After stopping at Bradford, the tour moved to Asia, first playing at the Grand Theater in Singapore. Then moved to Lyric Theater (HK Academy of Performing Arts) in Hong Kong, marking the first professional Wicked production in Hong Kong. Currently playing in Manila at The Theater Solaire, marks Manila's first professional production from Wicked.
After stopping in Manila, the tour will go to Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Istanbul. Subsequent dates are not confirmed.
Australian production
Australian production officially opened on July 12, 2008, with a preview starting June 27th at the Regent Theater in Melbourne.
Amanda Harrison initially acted as Elphaba, with Lucy Durack as Glinda. The original cast consists of Rob Mills as Fiyero, Anthony Callea as Boq, Rob Guest as Wizard, Maggie Kirkpatrick as Madame Morrible, Penny McNamee as Nessarose and Rodney Dobson as Doctor Dillamond. Guests suddenly died months into the Melbourne season, with a role taken by Bert Newton.
Closing in Melbourne August 9, 2009, the event was moved to the Sydney Capitol Theater. The preview begins on September 5, 2009, with official opening on 12 September. Shortly after that, Harrison was forced to abandon Elphaba's role, so currently Jemma Rix and Australian theater veteran Pippa Grandison began sharing roles, each appearing in four per week performances. Finally, it is certain that he will not return to the players.
Closure in Sydney September 26, 2010, production embarked on a nationwide Australian tour starting at QPAC Lyric Theater in Brisbane. After a two-week delay due to the Queensland flood, the show began on January 25, 2011, and lasts until April 2nd. Rix became the only Elphaba leader with David Harris joining as the new Fiyero.
The tour production then moved to the Festival Center in Adelaide, which runs from April 14 to June 4, 2011, with the final tour of the Burswood Theater play tour in Perth, from June 19 to September 11, 2011, wrapping more than three years of performances in Australia.
The Asian tour kicked off at the Singapore Grand Theater in Marina Bay beginning on December 6, 2011 with Suzie Mathers taking over as Glinda across from Rix.
After the inauguration of the Singapore tour closed on April 22, 2012, the show begins in Seoul, Korea from May 31 to October 6, 2012. The show then performs its inaugural show in New Zealand, with a preview taking place on September 17, 2013, and the official opening night of September 21. The Auckland run ends on November 24, 2013, where it plays the Civic Theater. The players then moved to the Main Theater of the Philippines Cultural Center in Manila with a limited period from January 22 to March 9, 2014 after being extended from the original closing date.
At the 10th Anniversary of Hikayat on Broadway, the event announced it would return to Australia for a national memorial tour, starting in Melbourne on May 10, 2014. Lucy Durack returns as Glinda, with Jemma Rix continuing as Elphaba.
The last players include Suzie Mathers (who has returned after Durack announces his pregnancy) as Glinda, Steve Danielsen as Fiyero, Simon Gallaher as Wizard, Edward Gray as Boq, Emily Cascarino as Nessarose, Glen Hogstrom as Doctor Dillamond and original cast member Jemma Rix as Elphaba and Maggie Kirkpatrick as Madame Morrible. After seven years and approaching 2,000 shows in 8 different cities internationally, Wicked closed indefinitely at the Burswood Theater in Perth on 28 June 2015.
The first licensed school production of the show was staged in Sydney by Kambala School (in partnership with Sydney Grammar School, Cranbrook School and Rose Bay Secondary College), directed by Mark Grandison. Production staged four shows from 8 to 12 August 2017.
Next international production
A thick thirty minute musical version played at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, Japan. Australian Jemma Rix is ​​part of the original cast, replacing Elphaba's role with Jillian Giaachi and Taylor Jordan. The show, which opened on July 12, 2006, featured the initial storyline of Act 1 but Fiyero, Madame Morrible, Boq, Nessarose and Doctor Dillamond were absent and there were many changes in sets and costumes. The last show took place on January 11, 2011. The first non-English replication and first Asian production opened in Tokyo, Japan, on June 17, 2007 with Hamada Megumi as Elphaba and Numao Miyuki as Glinda. Production closed on September 6, 2009, in preparation for his transfer to Osaka. After opening on October 11, 2009, Osaka production closed on February 13, 2011, featuring Ebata Masae as Elphaba with Tomada Asako as Glinda. Production was then moved again to Fukuoka on April 2, 2011 where the original stars were Ebata Masae (Elphaba) and Numao Miyuki (Glinda). After closing in Fukuoka on August 28, 2011, production is again located in Nagoya with the show starting September 23rd. The film stars in Masae Ebata and Asako Tomada as Elphaba and Glinda. Evil reopened in Tokyo at Dentsu Shiki Theater on 3 August 2013. Production closes on November 16, 2014. Production is located in Sapporo in May 2016.
Renamed to Evil: Die Hexen von Oz ( Evil: The Witches of Oz ), German production Wicked started preview on November 1, 2007 and opened on November 15th at the Palladium Theater in Stuttgart. Willemijn Verkaik plays Elphaba, Lucy Scherer plays Glinda, Mark Seibert plays Fiyero, Angelika Wedekind is Madame Morrible, Nicole Radeschnig is Nessarose, Stefan Stara is Boq, Michael Gunther is Doctor Dillamond, and Carlo Lauber plays the Wizard. Production was produced by Stage Entertainment and closed on January 29, 2010, and moved to Oberhausen where a preview began at Metronom Theater am CentrO on March 5, 2010, with the opening night of 8 March. The cast featured Willemijn Verkaik as Elphaba, Joana Fee WÃÆ'¼rz as Glinda, Barbara Raunegger as Madame Morrible, Mathias Edenborn as Fiyero, Janine Tippl as Nessarose, Ben Darmanin as Boq, Thomas Wissmann as Doctor Dillamond, and Carlo Lauber as Wizard. Willemijn Verkaik abandoned Elphaba's role in February 2011, having consistently been billed for nearly three and a half years between the production of Stuttgart and Oberhausen. The production of Oberhausen closed on 2 September 2011.
The new production, is famous for not being a replica of the original Broadway staging, opened at the City Theater in Helsinki, Finland on 26 August 2010 after preview performances take place on 24 August. Directed by Hans Berndtsson, star Maria YlipÃÆ'¤ÃÆ'¤ production as Elphaba, Anna-Maija Tuokko as Glinda, Tuukka LeppÃÆ'¤nen as fiyero, Ursula Salo as Madame Morrible, Vuokko Hovatta as Nessarose, Antti Lang as BOQ, Heikki Sankari as Doctor Dillamond and Eero Saarinen as a Wizard. Production of non-replication second place in Copenhagen, Denmark from January 12 to 29 May 2011, and presented by Det Ny Teater. The cast includes Annette Heick as Glinda, Maria Lucia Heiberg Rosenberg as Elphaba, John Martin Bengtsson as fiyero, Marianne Mortensen as Madame Morrible, Anais Lueken as Nessarose, Kim Hammelsvang Henriksen as BOQ, Kristian Boland as Doctor Dillamond and Steen Springborg as a Wizard.
A Dutch-language production was presented at Circustheater in Scheveningen, The Netherlands on October 26, 2011 and produced by Joop van den Ende Theaterproductions/Stage Entertainment. The official opening takes place on November 6th. Willemijn Verkaik repeated his role as Elphaba from German production, becoming the first actress to play a role in two different languages. He joins Chantal Janzen as Glinda, Jim Bakkum as Fiyero, Pamela Teves as Madame Morrible, Christanne de Bruijn as Nessarose, Niels Jacobs as Boq, Jochem Feste Roozemond as Doctor Dillamond and Bill van Dijk in the Wizard role. Because the musical usually does not run for the long term in the Netherlands, the closing night goes on as announced on January 11, 2013, after 14 months of running.
The first Spanish-language production opens in Mexico City, Mexico on October 17, 2013, following a preview of October 10. Produced by OCESA Teatro, replica productions are played at Teatro Telcel. The former child star, Danna Paola, shares Elphaba's role with Ana Cecilia AnzaldÃÆ'ºa, making Paola, the youngest 18-year-old actress in history to take on the role. They both join Cecilia de la Cueva and Majo PÃÆ'Â © Â © rez as Glinda, Jorge Lau as Fiyero, Anahi AlluÃÆ'Â © as Madame Morrible, Marisol Meneses as Nessarose, Adam Sadwing as Boq and Beto Torres as Doctor Dillamond. Eugenio Montessoro originally served as the Wizard, but was replaced during a preview by Paco Morales, for unknown reasons. Sebastian TreviÃÆ' Â ± o and Estibalitz Ruiz are Boq and Nessa Understudies are recurring and play a role once a week.
The first Korean-language production begins in Seoul on November 22, 2013 and is a new replica production. This production, located at Charlotte's Theater in Songpa, runs from November 22, 2013, to October 5, 2014.
In November 2015, the company "Time For Fun", a leading company in the entertainment market in Latin America, announced a musical adaptation in Brazil, which debuted in March 2016 at the Renault Theater in SÃÆ'Â £ Paulo. This is the biggest stage whose music is already installed.
Movie adaptation
A Wicked adaptation film has been in talks since 2004, though producers are waiting for revenue on the musical stage. Since 2012, Universal Studio is reportedly producing the film with Stephen Daldry as director and Winnie Holzman, who wrote the book, to write a screenplay.
After a long development, Universal announced in 2016 that the film will be released in theaters on December 20, 2019. Daldry is still scheduled to direct it, and the script will be written together by musical creators Holzman and Schwartz. Casting has not been announced yet.
Response
Awards and nominations
Original Broadway Production Wicked was nominated for 10 Tony Awards in 2004, including Best Musical; Book; Orchestration; Original score; Choreography; Costume design; Lighting Design; Beautiful Design while receiving two nominations for Best Actress - for Menzel and Chenoweth. Menzel won the Best Actress award, and the event also won the Tony Awards for Best Scenic Design and Best Costume Design, especially losing Best Book, Original Score and finally Best Musical to Avenue Q. In the same year, the event won 6 Drama Desk Awards from 11 nominations, including Outstanding Musical, Book, Director and Costume Design in addition to winning 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards from 10 nominations. Original Broadway cast footage also received the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.
Subsequent production has received awards and nominations. West End Production received 5 Laurence Olivier Award nominations and later won the Audience Award for Most Popular Show at the 2010 award ceremony. Original Australian production received 6 Helpmann Awards from 12 nominations, including Best Musical. Wicked was named Best Musical Decade by Entertainment Weekly magazine and praised the "cultural phenomenon" by Variety magazine. Although technically not a "prize", Elphaba's character was named 79th in Entertainment Weekly's list of The 100 Greatest Characters of the Past 20 Years.
Critical reception
The Broadway production opened on 30 October 2003, to be mixed into positive reviews from the theater critics. Menzel and Chenoweth received almost unanimous praise for their performances as Elphaba and Glinda. Both USA Today and Time Magazine gave Wicked a very positive review of the Broadway, with Richard Zoglin from Time telling, "If every musical has the brains, heart and bravery , Broadway will really be a magical place." Elysa Gardner from USA Today described it as "the most complete, and truly satisfying new musical I have ever met in a long time." In contrast, Ben Brantley in the New York Times loves production but highlights the show itself, calling it a "sermon" that "once stretched out its hand that seriously weakens its power," with a "generic" score. He notes that Glinda is a striking role that the audience ends up supporting him rather than the "very colorless" Elphaba, who is "nominally" his hero. Despite these diverse reviews, Wicked's interest spread quickly by word of mouth, leading to record-breaking success at the box office, as described below. Speaking to The Arizona Republic in 2006, Schwartz commented, "What can I say? The reviews are reviews.... I know we share the criticism We do not share the audience, and that's what counts."
International production has been opened for similar critical ambivalent reception. West End production opened for a slightly more optimistic response. The majority of critics have appreciated the spectacle of luxurious production, and the actors "power" performances in the witch's second role. However, contemporaries have characterized production as excessive, occasionally preaching, and suffering more hype than the heart. Although Charles Spencer of The Daily Telegraph described it as "sometimes... a bit of a mess," he praised the Holzman manuscript, described the lighting design of Kenneth Posner as "magical" and praised Elfaba and Helen Menzel Glinda Dallimore. Michael Billington of The Guardian gave it three out of five stars and told the competencies of all the main actors; However, he complains that Commercial revenue
Since it opened in 2003, the original Broadway production Wicked has broken the home record at Gershwin Theater twenty times. Regularly grosses over $ 1.6 million each week, making it one of the most profitable productions on Broadway. With a capitalization of $ 14 million, Broadway's production took 15 months to break even, regaining its initial investment on December 21, 2004. In its first year, he made over $ 56 million. In the week ending January 1, 2006, Wicked broke the record, previously held by The Producers musicals, for the highest weekly gross box box in Broadway history, earning $ 1,610,934. It has broken its own record many times, reaching $ 1,715.155 in November 2006, $ 1,839,950, during the 2007 Christmas week, $ 2,086,135 for the week ended November 29, 2009, $ 2,125,740 just weeks later for the eight gigs that ended January 3 , 2010, and more than $ 2.2 million in the week ending January 2, 2011. In the first week of 2012, Broadway production broke the record again, generating $ 2.7 million. Evil once again broke this record in the last week of 2012 when it grossed $ 2.9 million. In the final weekend of 2013, Wicked became the first musical to $ 3 million in a single week.
Wicked's production in North America and abroad has been equally successful financially. Los Angeles production took a local gross weekly record, again from the performance of The Producers, generating $ 1,786,110 in the week ended March 4, 2007. Production merged with its Broadway partner in setting a new 2007 Christmas record of $ 1,949,968, with records were also set in Chicago ($ 1,418,363), and St. Louis ($ 2,291,608), to bring the collective collective from seven world productions to a world record of $ 11.2 million. The new recording series was made on Christmas 2010, with records of broken homes in San Francisco ($ 1,485,692), Providence ($ 1,793,764) and Schenectady ($ 1,657,139) as well as Broadway, which brings one gross musical week in North America alone to $ 7,062,335.
Wicked was played by over 2 million visitors in Chicago with gross revenues of over $ 200 million, making it the best-selling show in Chicago history in June 2007. With a gross of $ 1.4 million first week, it continuously set records and became the longest Broadway musical in Chicago history. Producer David Stone told Variety , "we think it [Chicago production] will run 18 months, then we'll spend a year in Los Angeles and six months in San Francisco... but sales remain so strong that the producers created other street shows and made the show run in Chicago. "In addition, more than 2.2 million people saw the production of the tour in the first two years, earning more than $ 155 million. Los Angeles production grossed over $ 145 million and was seen by more than 1.8 million subscribers. More than 672 San Francisco production shows, Wicked sold over 1 million tickets with a cumulative gross of over $ 75 million. While Broadway production Wicked welcomed 5 million viewers on September 29, 2010,
International production from Wicked has matched a very positive reception at box-office. Although the West End theater did not publish audited weekly grosses, West End production from Wicked claimed a record for a one-week high gross in December 2006, taking Ã, Â £ 761,000 in the week ending December 30. On June 23, 2008, manufacturers reported that more than 1.4 million people had seen London production since its opening, and the grosses had surpassed Ã, Â £ 50 million; The same report stated that the show consistently became one of the two best-selling events in the West End. For the week beginning on December 27, 2010, London production grossed £ 1,002,885, the highest weekly gross week in the history of the West End theater, with more than 20,000 spectators attending the nine Wicked shows that week. Melbourne production broke Australia's box-office record, selling 24,750 tickets in three hours during pre-sales and grossing more than $ 1.3 million on the first business day after the official opening. On April 27, 2009, production passed a milestone of 500,000 customers. When transferred to Sydney, production broke "all previous weekly box office records for musicals at the Capitol Theater, grossing $ 1,473,775.70" in a week during October 2009.
In the week ending October 17, 2010, Wicked became only the third musical in Broadway history to exceed $ 500 million total. With seats sold on Broadway, it ranks tenth of all time. In September 2011, North American and international companies cumulatively acquired nearly $ 2.5 billion and have been seen by nearly 30 million people worldwide. Original production is still running today and currently stands as the 11th longest Broadway show in history. Evil celebrated the 1,000th show on Broadway on March 23, 2006. Other productions have also reached the 1000th milestone milestone, including the first North American tour company on August 15, 2007, the Chicago company on November 14, 2007, the West End company on February 14, 2009, the Australian company on May 7, 2011 and the second North American tour company on August 4, 2011.
Behind the Emerald Curtain
The success of Broadway's production has led to the development of the additional show, Behind the Emerald Curtain, made by Sean McCourt - original Broadway casting member who plays the Magician's Father, among other roles, in addition to interpreting the Wizard and Doctor Dillamond, before taking over the last major role - and Anthony Galde, a long swing at the Broadway company from 2004 to 2012. The tour featured ninety minutes behind the scenes viewing props, masks, costumes, and sets used in
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