Archive for March, 2009
Adam Lambert in Wicked
Although Adam Lambert is best known for American Idol, previously he was involved with Wicked as well as a musical version of The Ten Commandments. What a lot of people don’t know is that the 27 year old, who was one of the American Idol finalists, had a professional background in musical theater long before […]
Patty Duke Joins Wicked San Francisco Cast as Madame Morrible
Patty Duke Joins Wicked San Francisco Cast as Madame Morrible Producers for Wicked, the smash hit musical, today announced that starting on March 24 Patty Duke, Academy Award winning actress, will be playing Madame Morrible. The current Madame Morrible, Carol Kane had been scheduled from the beginning for only a limited engagement for the first […]
Wicked San Francisco | Orpheum Theatre
Wicked, the smashing musical production that is currently touring major US cities, will be at San Francisco’s SHN Orpheum Theatre from March 9, 2016 to April 16, 2016. Wicked tells of the unlikely friendship of Elphaba and Galinda and how they ended up in two opposing sides as the Wicked Witch of the West and […]
Wicked New York | Gershwin Theatre
Wicked is one of Broadway’s most successful and beloved musicals. Wicked has been stealing the hearts of theatre goers since it first opened at New York’s Gershwin Theatre in 2003. There isn’t a box office record it has yet to dismantle, and its success has spawned shows from Chicago to LA as well as two […]
Idina Menzel – Wicked’s Original Elphaba
Idina Menzel, Tony Award-winning actress, songwriter and singer and best known for her original roles as Elphaba, Wicked Witch of the West, in Wicked and as Maureen in Rent, was born May 30, 1971 as Idina Kim Mentzel. She was born on Long Island, New York into a Jewish family. Stuart Mentzel, her father, was […]
Wicked Cast: Elphaba & Glinda
The musical Wicked is based on Gregory Maguire’s novel and focuses on the story of the two witches of Oz, Elphaba and Glinda. They meet as young girls at the school Shiz, where they are aspiring sorcerers. Wicked details their story and later emergence as The Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda The Good […]