Glinda: Dianne Pilkington, Louise Dearman, Gina Beck, Savannah Stevenson, Suzie Mathers, Sophie Evans, Lucy St. The tour also featured in the Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago sit-down productions, and were each run by different long-serving cast members of the show. A majority of them were later incorporated into all productions of Wicked, including the Broadway production and the two national tours.

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Simultaneously, Glinda informs the People of Oz that the Wicked Witch is dead and that she has earned her title as "Glinda the Good.The first part is set for release on November 27, 2024, with the second part to follow a year later on November 26, 2025. Performances resumed on September 14, 2021 with Lindsay Pearce as Elphaba and Ginna Claire Mason as Glinda. Directed by Hans Berndtsson, [107] the cast includes Maria Ylipää as Elphaba, with Tuukka Leppanen as Fiyero. In November 2021, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were cast as Glinda and Elphaba respectively, with production originally set to begin in summer 2022 in the United Kingdom.

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In its out-of-town tryout in San Francisco, audience reaction was generally positive, and although critics tended to compliment the aesthetic and spectacle of the show, they disparaged the state of its book, score, and choreography. In October 2018, an NBC broadcast, A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway, was hosted by Menzel and Chenoweth and featured Ariana Grande, Pentatonix, Adam Lambert, Ledisi, the current Broadway company of the musical and others, singing many of the musical numbers from Wicked to a live studio audience at the Marquis Theatre in New York. In doing so, it subtly delivers commentary on the abuses of power that have pervaded our collective history, and the power of friendship in the face of it. He noted that Glinda is such a showy role that the audience ends up rooting for her rather than the "surprisingly colorless" Elphaba, who is "nominally" the hero.The second non-replicated production ran in Copenhagen, Denmark from January 12 until May 29, 2011, and was presented by Det Ny Teater. The first Korean-language production began performances in Seoul on November 22, 2013 and is an all-new replica production. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. The majority of critics have appreciated the spectacle of the lavish production, and the "powerhouse" performances of actors in the roles of the two witches.

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Its original stars included Idina Menzel as Elphaba, Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, and Joel Grey as the Wizard. Following a limited engagement of the first national tour from April 29 to June 12, 2005, a sit-down production opened at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago immediately following the tour as the original tour set was left in Chicago so the Chicago sit-down could happen. It was created by Sean McCourt—an original Broadway production cast member who played the Witch's Father—and Anthony Galde, who was a long-running swing in the Broadway company from 2004 to 2012. Glinda realizes that Madame Morrible is responsible for Nessrose's death and that the situation and rumors have already gone too far. Wicked tells the story of two unlikely friends, Elphaba Thropp (later the Wicked Witch of the West) and Galinda Upland (later Glinda the Good Witch), whose friendship struggles through their opposing personalities, viewpoints, same love interest, reactions to the Wonderful Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's fall from grace.Although not included as a titled song, the theme appears as an interlude in several of the musical numbers. A press conference is held to celebrate their engagement, but it is hijacked by the public's panicked rumours about Elphaba, one of them claiming that she can be melted by water. Following the out-of-town tryout in San Francisco in May and June 2003, which received mixed critical reception, the creative team made extensive changes before its transfer to Broadway. The Oscar-winning song " Let It Go" from the successful 2013 Disney computer-animated musical feature film Frozen, that also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, had been compared to "Defying Gravity" due to its similar theme and similar singing style, [215] and was sung by the original Elphaba Idina Menzel.

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The first Spanish-language production opened in Mexico City, Mexico on October 17, 2013, following previews from October 10. This also creates contrast in the songs in which it forms a part, for example in "Defying Gravity", which is written primarily in the key of D-flat major. The same year, the show won 6 Drama Desk Awards out of 11 nominations, including Outstanding Musical, Book, Director, and Costume Design. The Apollo Victoria Theatre is home to the West End’s hit musical, Wicked, which has been casting its spell over audiences across the world for two decades and is already the 11th longest running production in West End history.Rapper Drake and singer Mika both sampled the musical's song in their songs "Popular" and " Popular Song" respectively. The show started previews in Seoul's Blue Square Theater 3 months later on February 12, 2021, which was the first Wicked performance after the Covid-19 shutdown.