The Ongoing Wicked Discussion Thread

Great photos...really should have redone the catfight one though

If you message me with your email address I'll send you a copy of the letter!

Here's hoping...has annoyed me a bit that everyone now has the nice tickets while Im left with the ordinary one lol

Might be worth asking when there if you can swap it for a souvenir ticket. They should have the ticket stock to do it

Does anyone have a pic of the tickets?

I guess the Lobby will be split in two? And one side of the building will be Guests, one side will be regular audience members?

I totally thought I was going to get to walk down a green carpet... might pretend I'm a YouTube star.....

I think you may be tazered if you try and use the front entrance!

If you click on it says its a lottery for the 10th anniversary shows...tickets for £60.

Judging by the phrasing "once in a lifetime tickets" I have feeling this id the reason why theres no dayseats.

Per the discussion a couple of weeks ago, pleased but surprised to report that Wicked stagedoor tonight was extremely quiet, fewer than a dozen people. I was expecting hordes, especially as there were barriers up, but no. Maybe the fans are conserving their energy for the 10th anniversary!

Seeing the show again, 8 years after I last saw it at the Apollo Vic (though I did see the tour once in 2012), was kind of odd. It was rather like when you meet up with an old schoolfriend years later and it's nice to see them again but not the same. I thought the cast were very good but I just couldn't get emotionally involved like I used to. I found my mind wandering back to "my" casts at times.

A few things on individual performers. I thought Rachel Tucker was very good, I liked her take on the role and the majority of her acting choices. I suspect she wasn't quite at her best vocally as the endings of INTG & DG seemed slightly off but as she was off sick last week that's not surprising.

I really liked Suzie Mather's Glinda. She managed to sucessfully tread a fine line between being funny & ditzy while not being annoying. She did a number of lines differently to how I'd seen them done before, which was refreshing (admittedly I'm way out of touch with recent Glindas). I would have liked a little more soprano tone on a few high notes but again she was off sick last week. Nice to hear a Glinda who can take the low option in INTGR & in fact I thought her final low note was better than Rachel's had been in INTG. After various comments on here about what accents both actresses would use I was glad to hear they were both doing RP & all the "a" sounds were correct. I really don't like hearing Wicked sung by British casts with American "a"s. Kerry Ellis was a particularly bad offender in this.

I'd seen Oliver Saville on for Raoul in the Phantom cast before last so I was looking forward to seeing him as Fiyero & though he did a very good job. I considerably preferred him to the last Fiyero I saw on the tour. Some very good line deliveries. He was good at making things sound real rather than recited by rote. For someone so tall he's a good dancer (memories of a certain Mr O. Tompsett's DTL ;-) ).

There have been a lot of comments about Katie Rowley Jones looked bored but I didn't think she did tonight. I thought she was as good as what I can remember of her Nessa 9 years ago & seemed quite emotional in WWOTE.

I'm afraid the principal I was least keen on was Idriss Karbo as Boq. It's not his fault but I just found his voice too high-pitched and almost girly-sounding at times.

It was lovely seeing my favourite Dillamond, Martin Ball, back in the role. It was his return to Wicked that got me back to the show, in what is possibly the only incidence of someone going to see Wicked for the Dillamond!

While I certainly am not going to rack up another 60-odd Wicked visits I probably will be back to see this cast again as I want to see Martin on for the Wizard and would also be interested in seeing Alice Fearn & Carina Gillespie on. I hope the Wicked producers won't follow Cameron Mackintosh & ban understudies from giving out dates!

Have Rachel and Suzie both been on for the Saturday matinees so far? I'm going on Saturday afternoon and hoping they will both be on.