Wicked has broken box-office records around the world, holding weekly-gross-takings records in Los Angeles, Chicago, St.
The success of the Broadway production has spawned many productions worldwide, including a long-running West End production. A typical performance of the show takes about two hours and 30 minutes, including an intermission. On April 11, 2023, with its 7,486th performance, it surpassed Cats to become Broadway's fourth-longest running show. The original Broadway production won three Tony Awards and seven Drama Desk Awards, while its original cast album received a Grammy Award. Its original stars included Idina Menzel as Elphaba, Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, and Joel Grey as the Wizard. Platt, and David Stone, with direction by Joe Mantello and choreography by Wayne Cilento, the original production of Wicked premiered on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre in October 2003, after completing pre-Broadway tryouts at San Francisco's Curran Theatre in May and June of that year. Produced by Universal Stage Productions, in coalition with Marc Platt, Jon B. Wicked tells the story of two unlikely friends, Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) and Galinda (later Glinda the Good Witch), whose relationship struggles through their opposing personalities and viewpoints, same love interest, reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's fall from grace. Its plot begins before and continues after Dorothy Gale arrives in Oz from Kansas. The show is told from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation. It is based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, in turn based on L. Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Musicalĭrama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Musical Multiple international productions ( see below)ĭrama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical
May 28, 2003: Curran Theatre, San Francisco
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Official poster of the original Broadway production
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