{"id":820,"date":"2009-11-19T11:23:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T19:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=820"},"modified":"2009-11-17T00:31:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T08:31:41","slug":"wicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/11\/wicked\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"10\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<img width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wicked.jpg\">\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<b>Wicked<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/><i>Teal Wicks, Kendra Kassebaum<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><br \/>\n<\/font>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The strategy did not quite work: find a mid-week matinee, take public transportation, enjoy a less attended show.  The possibility of rain changed our minds on taking CalTrain.  We arrived Orpheum Theater and found a sold-out.  Hey, I was on vacation, where do these people come from?  Don&#8217;t they need to work?<\/p>\n<p>Both kids have seen this show and liked it.  They had the CDs and hummed the tunes once in a while.  Kid refused to ruin the plot, saying that I should go see the show myself.  And she was right.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend this show.  I am not sure if there is any significant difference between the San Francisco and the <i>Original Broadway<\/i> versions.  Wicked actually started in San Francisco.  After about 5 months, the company moved to Broadway, in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Teal Wicks plays Elphaba, opposing Kendra Kassebaum&#8217;s Glinda.  I felt she is the main character and a slightly better singer than Kendra.  (It could be her mezzo-soprano <i>belt<\/i> that shook the theater.)<\/p>\n<p>It is really difficult to review this one without ruining it.  I understand the musical is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregorymaguire.com\/books\/wicked.html\">Greg Maguire&#8217;s book<\/a>, apparently itself a best-seller.  The show lasted 3 hours, including intermission, and probably did not do justice to the original book: simplification is a necessity converting books to any performance form.  Nevertheless, unlike many musicals, the story was equally enjoyable as the songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wicked Teal Wicks, Kendra Kassebaum The strategy did not quite work: find a mid-week matinee, take public transportation, enjoy a less attended show. The possibility of rain changed our minds on taking CalTrain. We arrived Orpheum Theater and found a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/11\/wicked\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[314,313,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}