I feel Wicked tonight

   I have the best friends. One of them took me to see the most fantabulous musical "Wicked" yesterday. I used the word "fantabulous" because it should be in dictionaries by now, it's so popular.
By the way, about Popular, what a wonderful song! Even though it's probably one of the most famous songs from the musical yet the whole production bursts out with incredible music and lyrics throughout all two and a half hours of performance. Time flies by when you watch this show.  It's that good!

   Elphaba (Dee Roscioli), the Wicked witch has this amazing voice (I can still hear her singing "Defying Gravity" in my head). Glinda is a character too. I don't want to ruin it for you so I won't say much about the story line. All I can say is that I could definitely relate and trust me, I'm no witch nor do I have any magical powers.
Winnie Holzman, the author of the book, has touched and tied complicated situations together. The story has so much depth to it that I would love to watch the show again... and again.

 

  Now that I expressed my gratitude it's time to get to the dance portion of the musical. Wonderful job. The nice mix of swing and contemporary pieces was blending so well! How did they do it? James Lynn Abbott (choreographer), my personal thanks to your work. Dancers did tremendous work by dancing so graciously and making it look so easy. I wouldn't call this choreography the most complicated but it was very pleasing to my eye. It looked flawless. It brough joy.