The Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre has announced that 2 ½ hours before each performance of “Wicked”, a lottery will be held to determine who will get tickets for a set number of seats in the orchestra section. The show is set to run between February 23 and March 27, 2001. Patrons who want a chance at the seats must show up in person at the box office to have their names put into the lottery drum. The names of the lucky people will be drawn ½ hour later for seats in the orchestra that will be priced at $25 per seat. The chosen few will be required to pay in cash and only two tickets for each person are allowed to be purchased.

Undoubtedly, Mila Kunis played a villain in “Black Swan,” but that’s nothing compared to what she may be doing for her next part. Kunis is currently discussing the role of the Wicked Witch of the West in the future prequel, “Oz, the Great and Powerful.” Based on information from Vulture, the prequel will discuss the histories of Glinda the Good Witch and the Wizard, two of the heroes in the story, and will provide some critical details about Evanorah, the Wicked Witch of the East. This character has a relatively minor role in the original story because Dorothy’s house lands on top of her.

Colin Hanlon is set to become the newest cast member of Wicked as it makes its first tour of North America beginning in Appleton, WI on February 15. Hanlon, who will play Fiyero, has been a cast member of Rent on Broadway and I Love You Because on off-Broadway. Other members of the cast include Chandra Lee Schwartz, who plays Glinda; Jackie Burns, who plays Elphaba; Mark Jacoby, who plays the Wizard; and Randy Danson, who plays Madame Morrible.

It is the classic premise of a show within a show but with the grandeur and theatricality imparted by musicals, this is the NBC newly green-lit show “Smash”, which is clearly riding on the success of Fox’s “Glee” but is bravely venturing out in the small screen to create its own identity amidst all the other upcoming TV musical shows which are also banking on the winning formula of Ryan Murphy’s new show.

For a city defined by the lights, the glitz, the glamor, its hard to believe Broadway fixtures like Jersey Boys and Lion King have taken up residence in Las Vegas yet Wicked is nowhere to be found in the adult playground. Well that is about to change as Wicked is set to visit the Smith [...]