Wicked Tickets

If all but one of the Broadway theaters had to close and only one show could remain, the show would be Wicked. This is the show that will eventually top the list of longest running production on Broadway. Wicked tickets are not only available for this show at the Gershwin Theatre, where it opened nearly a decade ago. Wicked the Musical is also enjoying an open run at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, big productions in major cities across the world, and not one but two national tours. Basically there are a lot more Elphabas in the world than there were in the 20^th century.

This is another Stephen Schwartz success. Schwartz previously earned recognition for Godspell. About two decades later he came across a book by the name of Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire while on vacation. This beach reading became the inspiration for a show that would top the Broadway grosses every week for nearly eight years and would inspire a new generation of theater lovers that ultimately ended up in the creation of the show Glee. 

Schwartz composed the music and wrote the lyrics and tapped Winnie Holzman, a writer who previously won an Emmy for her work with My So-Called Life. She, with the support of Maguire, took a much lighter approach to the book. She boiled Wicked down to story a green-skinned cast off discovery her power in college and befriending Galinda, a popular girl who will day become Glinda the Good Witch.

Songs like “Popular”, “What is this Feeling?”, and “For Good” touch the audience deeply, sometimes inspiring tears. Wicked is a work that saved Broadway from becoming a Disney-only zone or a place for Andrew Lloyd-Webber to take the live stage to a far too melodramatic place. Wicked tickets are Broadway tickets to see one the most important works of the 21^st century and to bask in its transformative powers.