Broadway Baby

Wicked is based on Gregory Maguire's book entitled "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West".  As most of you know it is a different take on L. Frank Baum's classic "Wizard of Oz".  Most of the characters are familiar to us who grew up listening to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", but this time, we look at the story of how everything came to be long before Dorothy ever stepped foot in Oz.  

I am just so glad that this musical which I really want to see is going to be the musical that I will be seeing very very soon!  Like I said in my previous entry, I'll be going to New York very soon, and when my parents asked me which musical I wanted to see, I immediately said, "Wicked".  Sure, there are many many more musicals that are "must see's", but considering the price of an average theater ticket on Broadway?  I have priorities, you know? 

I first found out about Wicked back in 2007, when a friend of mine gave me a copy of the OST of Wicked, Avenue Q, and Little Shop of Horrors.  I never really thought I'd end up listening to it, because the concept really didn't seem that interesting to me at the time.  But oh, when I heard the songs, I was completely captivated.  

Right now I am reading the book slowly and surely, because it is not as light hearted as the musical.  However, there's something about the book that makes me want to treat it like mythology and absorb all the knowledge I could from it.  When I watch this show I want to be able to recognize each character on stage and know the minute details that they couldn't pack in to the whole musical.