Wicked was Wonderful!!!

One week ago today - March 2nd - we went to the Schuster Center in Dayton for the 8pm show of "Wicked"  !!!   The lead of "Elphaba" was played by  actress Marcie Dodd who also played this role in the Broadway company of Wicked...awesome!  This is her second national tour.  

In case you don't know, the show is sort of the back story to the Wizard of Oz... plus some!  The sub-title is 'The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz.'   This is the official blurb:   "Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Wicked tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch."   

AND:
"The show is a buoyantly creative version of what happens to Elphaba, the supposedly 'wicked' witch and Glinda, the reputedly good witch during the college years. Their buddy story is only one of several storylines and subplots in a carefully constructed, surprise-filled musical adventure."
ALSO:
"Broadway's Wicked musical is based on Gregory Maguire's novel, Wicked - The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which turned every Oz myth inside out. Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, who adapted Maguire's book, often speak of the genius idea that Gregory had to look at the classic villain of Western culture: the Wicked Witch of The West, and considered writing her life story in a sympathetic way. Both the novel and musical assume that instead of her being Wicked, she is actually labeled "Wicked" by the culture around her while she is actually trying to accomplish something good."

OK - enough of blog-blurbing!  *LOL*!

I adored the show (jim liked it too) from the music to the costumes and dancing and the fast-paced witty dialogue! It was very funny sometimes poignant and I would see it again any day!

 *this shot is from the dorm scene - very cute!*

(photo from WHIO.com's Backstage Dayton blog!)

We were 'strictly prohibited' from using any  photographic devices during the show, so  i took a couple pics of the curtain which had the map of Oz on it  and the theater's interesting ceiling. We were seated in the Loge area - a balcony between the upper and lower balconies... not too bad... glad i took the monocular though!

*this is not a very good picture of the awesome dragon above the stage... it lit up, moved and belched smoke at the beginning of the show!*  
for a better shot of this go to:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/isewcute/4392912330/

**the theater's ceiling detail was very interesting... a stair-step design that ends with 'stars' floating above**
    it's as if looking through a porthole into the milky way....