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Wicked Opens to Thrill and Excitement at Kalamazoo’s Miller Auditorium
“Wicked” rode into town for the holidays on Wednesday on a sleigh filled with magic at Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo. The show runs through December 12. The lyrics and music for “Wicked” were created by Stephen Schwartz, the most successful musical theater American composer from his generation. The musical made its Broadway debut in 2003…
Erin MacKey Takes Over as Glinda on Broadway
Wicked, the musical from Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holtzman, welcomed in its latest Glinda, Erin Mackey, on August 11 at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway. Mackey has taken over for Alli Mauzey in the role that was created originally by Kristin Chenoweth, a Tony Award winner. Michelle Federer, as has been reported previously, will return…
Wicked Composer Stephen Schwartz Inducted to American Theater Hall of Fame
While Wicked’s one year anniversary is being celebrated in it’s current San Francisco incarnation at the Orpheum, tonight Stephen Schwartz is being recognized in New York at Gershwin Theatre. Both celebrations are very timely and well deserved. The American Theatre Hall of Fame, established in 1971- the same year Schwartz wrote Godspell- inducts various theatrical…
Wicked Pulls in Over $2 Million Thanksgiving Weekend, Breaks Broadway Record
For Broadway this week was huge. Tourists came to NYC for Thanksgiving and sales on Broadway sky rocketed. On Sunday, “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark” hauled in $200,606 for the first preview performance. However, the weekend’s clear winner was “Wicked.” The hit musical this week earned $2,150,665, which is the highest one week total in…
Wicked’s Landing in Little Rock Makes Big Economic Impact
In a statement released today, the theater production company Celebrity Attractions, which recently brought “Wicked” into Little Rock, said almost 40,000 people were in attendance during the run of 16 performances which resulted in $2.8 million in ticket sales. Little Rock’s premiere engagement of “Wicked,” the blockbuster musical, was an incredibly wicked success, casting a…
Archive for March, 2008
Wicked Closes in Chicago Posted by Julie Harmon On March – 26 – 2008 It is expected that David Stone, producer of the unprecedented “Wicked” Chicago production, will announce on Wednesday that the show will ring the final curtain down at the Oriental Theatre following the 1,500 performance on January 25, 2009. By the time…