[Futurecrook]

It's definitely one of the most popular musicals at the moment so I feel it deserves its own thread.

I saw it in London with Idina Menzel as Elphaba. It was definitely one of the best shows I have ever seen and the score is just amazing!

So who else here has seen it? And what are everyone's favourite songs?

I'm in love with this one...

[Doctor DooM]

Really want to see this...

[fonpokno]

You and me both DooM. I know the soundtrack inside out and back to front and I know the storyline but I still haven't managed to get to either London or New York. Damn.

[Tarvismike]

I saw it last week in London. My first time seeing a musical. It was just fantastic; the effects, acting, singing, music... it was all brilliant.

[orestes]

Would love to see this as well. Wanted to check it out last time I was in London but twas sold out, bah!

[Aisling(",)]

i wanted to go see it with my stage school last year but unfortuntly was going to south africa a month before it and wasnt allowed do both.i will see it someday.
i adore defying gravity and often have my own attempts in the bath..thankfully only the rubber duckies have to put up with me trying it.i think populars a really fun song though.so catchy.

[Niamh-17]

This is seriously one of the best musicals ever. Iv seen it twice now, in London. Its amazing! Iv seen Kerry Ellis and Alexia Khadime as Elphaba, but i would love to see Idina Menzel, from what iv seen of her on youtube, she seems incredible! And of course her singing on the Cast Recording is class!

My favourite songs are The Wizard and I, Defying Gravity, As long as your mine, Popular, For Good....ok the list is endless!

I got the score the other day so im trying to play some of the tunes on piano atm!

[Aisling(",)]

oh niamh id say theu sound deadly on the paino!!
hows it going with them?

[fonpokno]

Niamh For Good is the prettiest and the easiest. Oh it's so beautiful. I forced my school to use it for our graduation song. So pretty.

Defying Gravity, by jebus, so many bloody key changes! And all horrid keys if you have the book I have!

[Honey-ec]

Has anyone actually read the book? As in, the Gregory Maguire book, not the libretto???

I read it a few years ago before I ever got in to the musical and I have to say, it's one of the more bizarre novels I've ever read. It's very dark and not at all child (or even teen) friendly. For example:

-Spoiler: The Time Dragon shows the munchkins some very explicit scenes

- Nessarose has no arms, and she's as pink as Elphaba is green

- While at Shiz, Elphaba, Galinda, Fiyero and several others go to a place called the Philosophy Club, where one of their friends has sex with a Tiger

- Madame Morrible has Dr. Dillamond murdered. It's this that spurs Galinda to change the pronunciation of her name.

- Fiyero is married to a different character altogether (Sarima), but has an affair with Elphaba. Oh, and his body is covered in blue diamond tattoos. When he's murdered, Elphaba goes to live with his wife and kids in his castle.

- She kills one of his kids

- Elphaba does, in fact, die at the end of the book after Dorothy throws the water over her.

- Nessarose's slippers are actually made of silver glass beads, not rubies

So, as you can see, it differs in some major ways from the show!

[fonpokno]

Bah! Guys if use spoiler tags for any plot points that could be considered in anyway important or surprising or basically in the show/book at all.


I'm only halfway through that book Honey and I now know the important parts...

[Nevyn]

Originally Posted by Honey-ec

Has anyone actually read the book? As in, the Gregory Maguire book, not the libretto???



I read it a few years ago before I ever got in to the musical and I have to say, it's one of the more bizarre novels I've ever read. It's very dark and not at all child (or even teen) friendly.

Yes I adored it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_(novel)

Originally Posted by Honey-ec

- Nessarose's slippers are actually made of silver glass beads, not rubies

So, as you can see, it differs in some major ways from the show!

But it is more true to Frank L. Baum's books then the movie adaptation was.
The books are not the happy kids storys, the are complex and dark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books

In the books the slippers are sliver they were made 'ruby red' to exploit the fact the movie was being shot part in colour and so people had a field day saying the were a symbol of Dorothy starting to bleed from the crotch and leaving childhood behind which is rubbish.

[Honey-ec]

Originally Posted by fonpokno

Bah! Guys if use spoiler tags for any plot points that could be considered in anyway important or surprising or basically in the show/book at all.


I'm only halfway through that book Honey and I now know the important parts...

Only one of mine was a show spoiler and I used the tags.

I wouldn't consider any of them book spoilers - they're just plot parts, not massive twists.

[fonpokno]

Originally Posted by Honey-ec

Only one of mine was a show spoiler and I used the tags.

I wouldn't consider any of them book spoilers - they're just plot parts, not massive twists.

Perhaps you wouldn't but I would. I for instance didn't know that Spoiler: Fiyero is murdered or that Elphaba moves in with his children and kills one of them. They're pretty important in the direction of the story imo.

In your opinion they're not book spoilers, but in my case they were. I'd just appreciate if you gave others the opportunity to read the book if they so wish and discover the differences themselves.

[lilmizzme]

In your opinion they're not book spoilers, but in my case they were. I'd just appreciate if you gave others the opportunity to read the book if they so wish and discover the differences themselves.

She did....the spoilers were clearly marked SPOILER and were illegible unless the reader highlighted the text.

If the reader wanted to dicover the difference themselves, they dont need to highlight the spoiler!