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My big present this year was tickets to Wicked, so we went last night.
YAY! Yay for going out, seeing a musical (I haven't been to one since Lion King was here, and that was years ago). it was so much fun!
All I knew about it really was that it's based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, and it's about Elphaba (the Wicked Witch) and Glinda and how they used to be friends. I don't think I'd even heard any of the music.
So we get to the parking lot and we look around at everyone else going, and my spouse observes, "This is a chick show, isn't it?"
Yes, honey, it is. I knew that, too. It's a huge MASSIVE phenomenon thing. The audience was probably about 70% women. Which was cool (but also led to a line about two hundred people deep for the only bathroom at intermission, omg. Not so awesome).
On the way out I called it the "ultimate BFF4EVA" musical. :)
The music is pop-modern, for the most part, with a few little winks to the Wizard of Oz score. I didn't find any of the tunes particularly memorable on a first hearing, but there certainly several songs designed to show off the leads' vocal talents. Some of the staging is very clever, though I was a little disappointed by some of the dance choreography. It seemed sort of... adequate. The thing I liked best and was surprised by the most was how funny the show is. This sounds sort of tepid, but it was a lot of fun and I'm glad I went.
On a meta level it's interesting because the musical really would not work nearly so well without the foundation of the book (or really, the movie) to both depend on and subvert at the same time. (so yes, it's totally fanfic, I think).
Like everything today, it's merchandised to death. My favorite thing was a little baby onesie in green with the words "it's better being green" on it. So cute.
unfortunately I seemed to have picked up a cold. I think all the dry ice in the show really dried out my sinuses or something, and now I'm all sniffly. ick.
YAY! Yay for going out, seeing a musical (I haven't been to one since Lion King was here, and that was years ago). it was so much fun!
All I knew about it really was that it's based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, and it's about Elphaba (the Wicked Witch) and Glinda and how they used to be friends. I don't think I'd even heard any of the music.
So we get to the parking lot and we look around at everyone else going, and my spouse observes, "This is a chick show, isn't it?"
Yes, honey, it is. I knew that, too. It's a huge MASSIVE phenomenon thing. The audience was probably about 70% women. Which was cool (but also led to a line about two hundred people deep for the only bathroom at intermission, omg. Not so awesome).
On the way out I called it the "ultimate BFF4EVA" musical. :)
The music is pop-modern, for the most part, with a few little winks to the Wizard of Oz score. I didn't find any of the tunes particularly memorable on a first hearing, but there certainly several songs designed to show off the leads' vocal talents. Some of the staging is very clever, though I was a little disappointed by some of the dance choreography. It seemed sort of... adequate. The thing I liked best and was surprised by the most was how funny the show is. This sounds sort of tepid, but it was a lot of fun and I'm glad I went.
On a meta level it's interesting because the musical really would not work nearly so well without the foundation of the book (or really, the movie) to both depend on and subvert at the same time. (so yes, it's totally fanfic, I think).
Like everything today, it's merchandised to death. My favorite thing was a little baby onesie in green with the words "it's better being green" on it. So cute.
unfortunately I seemed to have picked up a cold. I think all the dry ice in the show really dried out my sinuses or something, and now I'm all sniffly. ick.