Wicked

Finally, after three years of anticipation, I finally get to see it. I've known the songs by heart and used to listen to them all the time. And now my imaginings of the stage come to life. The holes in the story are filled in. And it was phenominal. Alexia Khadime, the woman who played Elphaba (the Wicked Witch), was amazing. Truly. She had an amazing voice and more than once I had chills because of the way she used it. Remarkable.

The whole production was amazing from the music (Stephen Schwartz is one of my favorite* composers) to the spectacle. One thing that struck me as odd was that there was captioning. As in, English words to the left and right of the stage that wrote what was being said. I see why someone would go if they couldn't hear, but I think that giant glowing red letters are necessary. In fact, it was distracting from the performance. I constantly found my eyes wandering to the side of the stage to read the words.

Overall excellent performance. I would definately see it again (though a different cast would be fun).

*I thought I should note that I read a lot of British books, as the fantasy genre seems to be dominated by British authors, and I almost spelled "favorite" as "favourite".