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Fun Facts about Broadway’s Wicked Tweet Wicked has returned to its birthplace and to celebrate its homecoming in the Bay area, here are some fun facts you ought to know about the popular Broadway hit. Wicked is a musical adaptation of a novel by Gregory Maguire, which in turn is a parallel novel to the…

Wicked Miami | Adrienne Arsht Center Posted by Julie Harmon On July – 24 – 2009 Wicked was last in Miami, Florida performing at the Adrienne Arsht Center on March 3 – 21. The Wicked Miami cast included Donna Vivino (Elphaba), Chandra Lee Schwartz (Glinda), Randy Danson (Madame Morrible) and Richard Kline (The Wizard). Tickets…

Wicked Peoria | Peoria Civic Center Critically acclaimed musical and three-time Tony Award winner, “Wicked”, flies to Illinois this fall for a two-week run at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, from October 26 through November 6, 2016, right in time for Halloween. Written for the stage by Winnie Holzman with music and lyrics from…

The original name for the George Gershwin Theatre was the Uris. In 1972 when it first opened, the Uris was the next large Broadway theatre to have been built since 1931 when the Earl Carroll was constructed. It occupied six stories in the new Uris Building at Fifty First and Broadway, the former site of…

Wicked, the wildly popular musical that has been on Broadway for seven years now, has became the first show in the history of Broadway to gross over $2 million in one week of performances. During the week that ended November 29, the show earned $2,086,135. Its previous record was $1,839,950 that was set the week…

Wicked Author Gregory Maguire Pens a Play Posted by Julie Harmon On July – 22 – 2010 Gregory Maguire, author of the critically acclaimed novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” which was turned into an award winning and top grossing Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman,…