Watch The Broadway Musical Wicked In Even London Or Chicago
Gregory Maguire's best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West forms the tenuous basis of the Broadway Musical Wicked. Its script is based on a book by Winnie Holzman. With direction by Joe Mantello, Wicked is produced by Universal Pictures. It gave its first performance on Broadway on October 30, 2003 at the George Gershwin Theatre. As of March 2, 2008, it had already given 1790 performances and is still running at the theatre.
Wicked on Broadway has been a runaway success, surprisingly because it received an also ran status by New York Times, which virtually passed it by. It had also received mixed reviews from critics. However, it received wide support from its patrons, so much so that Wicked was also launched in Los Angeles, Chicago, Stuttgart, Tokyo, and West End in London. Besides this, its tour version has already visited more than 30 cities in the US and Canada.
So, you now get to watch the Broadway musical Wicked on Broadway in New York or in London or even Chicago. It has a great soundtrack (cast recording) by Stephen Schwartz. The 19-tracks soundtrack album has received the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2005. It received platinum certification on November 30, 2006 by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
In addition to this, Wicked has received three of Broadway's Tony Awards. They include The Best Actress in a Musical, Best Scenic Design, and Best Costume Design. Also of note are its ten nominations for Tony awards. Its popularity is underscored by its $14 million market capitalization. It has also broken the records for the highest weekly box office gross in Broadway history. It earned $1,715,155 in the week ending November 26, 2006. All these records were earlier set by Wicked itself. It will further repeat its record breaking performance. You can easily buy tickets for the Broadway musical Wicked. To get tickets for the New York Show, you can queue up at the Ticketmaster ticket centers or log on to their Ticketmaster Web service. This is the official site to get the tickets online. Tickets to Wicked in Chicago are available at all Broadway-in-Chicago box offices as also by queuing up at the various Ticketmaster ticket centers or online at the ticketmaster Web service. They are also available at the Ford Center of Performing Arts in Chicago. Tickets to Wicked in London are available at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, where the show is currently running. They are also available at the London office of BroadwayBox, where you may be able to get even discounted tickets if you are lucky. It looks like the Broadway musical Wicked is destined to break its own records many times over. This story of the much misunderstood bad witch and the hyped up good witch will be retold many times. The wonder is that this is only the first incarnation of Wicked!
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