Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast) | Stephen Schwartz, Kristin Chenoweth, ...

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	Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast) Stephen Schwartz, Kristin Chenoweth, ... Decca Broadway, 2003 average customer review:based on 872 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Wicked!!

This CD is amazing! I loved the Broadway show and was amazed by the fact that i could buy this CD, for the price that it was. I recommend this to anyone who loved all the freakiness of Wicked!

wickedly good

If you loved the broadway show you'll love this CD. It's been 6 months since I've seen the show and I still have this CD in my car!

Love "Wicked"

Listen to this CD whenever I get in my car and enjoy it so much I don't even mind the trip. Beautiful music, beautiful voices! Highly recommend
it!

Super doshus expi-fraga-lis-ticly terrific.

I fell in love with Kristin Chenoweth from her strange and funny performance in Candide. I then forgot her (I'm fickle that way) until I heard a wonderful voice on the XM radio Broadway station singing a selection from Wicked. I didn't know the voice was Ms Chenoweth. It was months later that I happened to remember that song and that voice. I only heard it once, and yet it stuck in my head and popped up out of the blue - very wicked indeed. I googled Wicked to find that the voice and Chenoweth, are the same. I think I already knew it her before I googed.

I had never heard of Wicked. The story sounded fun, and the one song I heard was enough to get me to buy the CD. The entire collection of music is wonderful. Although I've not seen the performance, I did extensive research into Oz when I was a child, and I once slept at a motel 6. The story is in the music. I always felt that Tinker Bell vacationed in OZ, but Hook's lawyers prevented that part of the story from going public.

Idina Menzel has given a beautiful voice to the wicked witch. I understand she is green? Black & White TV didn't show that part. How can anyone who sings like that be so green? Thanks to Menzel's performance, I'm feeling a bit torn between East & West. Should I feel guilty?

Along with witches, you get JOEL GREY (we love him!), and more talent than sticks can be shaken at. A $10 ticket to this entertainment should be illegal! Get it before the Feds close down this racket.

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CD is good, show is better, Chicago cast is better still.

Some reviewers use this forum to express disdain for the musical itself. I guess they're far too cultured to enjoy artwork meant for the plebes and proles (see Orwell). I attended the Chicago performance twice and enjoyed it immensely. Unfortunately (in a sense) the leads in Chicago in late 2007 and early 2008 had such powerful voices that the leads from the Broadway cast who recorded this CD suffer somewhat by comparison. Dee Roscioli (who appeared as Elphaba in Chicago) has an alto-like resonance and this contributed considerably to Wicked's solos.
Erin Mackey (Glinda in the same cast) delivered a bit of operatic soprano to her performance, and again this depth overcame what otherwise is a potentially girlish-sounding part. The two leading ladies on the CD sound a little thin by comparison. Without this first-hand experience, the CD would definitely rate 4-stars, perhaps even 5. One other criticism of the other reviews is that few people seem to grasp the clearly evident themes in Wicked. 1) Rulers are always and everywhere corrupt liars, 2) the citizenry is easily duped, made to believe absurdities and to thereby support hatred and violence, 3) the "official" version of history is often a 180-degree inversion of the truth, and 4) talented individuals who think for themselves are, throughout history, reviled by the tyrants who rule and by the common man (see quotations of H.L. Mencken).
Get the CD and enjoy it. See the show live and *really* enjoy it.

[Oh, and look up the novel Revolutionary Language on Amazon....]

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