WICKED!!!!!
Which is the BEST musical ever. Seen Wizard of Oz? Of course, you have, who hasn't? Of course some of you have probably seen it and totally forgot it. Here's a recap. Poor girl from Kansas gets transported to a world called Oz, via tornado. There she gets mixed up with good and bad witches (from almost every direction), some odd people/animals who all have problems of their own, a remarkable pair of shoes, and of course the wonderful wizard who turns out to be not so wonderful ("pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"), then wakes up and it was all a dream..... OR WAS IT?
Well going on the assumption that it wasn't, we get Wicked. The musical telling us more about the Witches of Oz, a particular two to be exact. Elphaba - later the Wicked Witch of the West and Galinda/Glinda - The Good Witch of the North. Now these two's stories begin in... well collage. Elphaba, a young remarkably smart girl was born with a certain flaw. She's green. This scares people and basically keeps her from making any friends. That's until she meets Galinda, a popular pretty girl, who eventually sees past Elphaba's odd looks and becomes her friend. Of course a lot of bad stuff happens and the friendship is tried many times. Especially when the rest of Oz turns on Elphaba as being a "wicked witch" .
Great musical. Great songs. Great story. Love it.
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