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Ladies and Gentleman, boys and girls, elites and grunt and everyone else welcome to this weeks Backstage Info Sesh with yours truly, Pbrabbit. So you might be asking yourself, WTF is a musical? Why should I care or even, Should I just stop reading? My Answer to those: A musical is like a play, except it has songs in it, Care a little bit and NO This weeks Musical: WICKED "Wicked (full title: Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz) is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartzand a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's 1900 classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The musical is told from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz; its plot begins before and continues after Dorothy's arrival in Oz from Kansas and includes several references to the 1939 film and Baum's novel. Wicked tells the story of two unlikely friends, Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) and Glinda (the Good Witch of the North), who struggle through opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's public fall from grace." Source My take on this show is this. This is a fairly new show to be on broadway. Coming to the Broadway stage around May 2003. Compared to A Chorus Line(1970's) and other famous shows from the 1900's and some even from the late 1800's(Pirates of Penzance). This show is exciting, fresh and quite a thrill to see. Literally a thrill because when I went to go see it for the third time, the person behind me had a heart attack, No Joke . Anyways, the show is great, the story is amazing, and the music is spectacular. Here are a couple popular songs from the show. Popular Defying Gravity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMBcTGJ4YM
