Review: Wicked
November 27, 2008 at 2:30 pm | In Live Shows, Reviews | Leave a CommentTags: Live, of, oz, production, show, theatre, wicked, witches, wizard
What I liked:
The story was good. They wrapped it around the Wizard of Oz really well, and managed to make it fresh and interesting. The characters were all well written, and the costumes were fantastic. The cast performed admirably, and the set was creative and worked really well.
What I didn’t:
The songs were, for the most part, boring and bland. None of them drew me in, and some of the chorus songs were hard to understand. The whole thing was painfully predictable. And not in the usual broadway happy ending way, but in a crappier, less fun way. There were a lot of primary school kids there, and I don’t like them.
It was an overall positive experience, but I think the music really let it down. It took me a while to get into it (towards the end of the first half), and even when I got into it, and was really enjoying it, the songs just didn’t click with me. Not that they were bad, they just weren’t great. I really think they could have done far better. It’s definitely worth seeing though, unless you’re not a real person, and haven’t seen The Wizard of Oz. In which case, fuck you.
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