Wicked 'Wicked'

I've just been to my first West End theatre show. I've been wanting to see Wicked for years...definitely worth the wait! It was such a great show. A brilliant feeling to be sitting in a beautiful old theatre, cocktail in hand, watching a multi award winning show. I haven't read the book that it's based on but it was really cool to see how the story is cleverly twisted around the original Wizard of Oz story. Basically it was about how Elpheba the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch went through university together, and that Elpheba wasn't really wicked at all, it was just the public's perception. There were things like the creation of the flying monkeys and how a man was saved from being killed by getting turned into the scarecrow. The tin man and the lion made an appearance too, with Dorothy's story kind of like a sideline, it was always like she had just left the scene. The singing was brilliant, especially from the two lead women playing the witches. As this is a proper long running show there were absolutely amazing sets and costumes. It had a kind of steampunky feel to it with loads of big cogs and a mixture of metal and old wooden decorative pieces and it all fitted it perfectly! There were things like trap doors and grooves in the stage for all the set pieces to move around with, and a great big metal dragon at the top of the stage that lit up, moved and blew smoke at the dramatic bits.

Check out the Wicked trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATW9soLqD5w

I can't wait for the new movie, Oz The Great and Powerful, to come out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=5NdeuYgRoTI&feature=endscreen). They all tie in together a little bit even though they aren't really related at all so it'll be fun to go back to the land of Oz again!