Show: Wicked
Date: 2/28/10
Cast: Teal Wicks.
Type: Audio
Not great. Just not.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Day 101-1/28/10
Show: Wicked
Date: 2/14/09
Cast: Nicole Parker as Elphaba. Alli Mauzey as Glinda. Aaron Tveit as Fiyero
Type: Audio
Well, to be honest I wasn't in love with it. The show's a mess and just feels too damn long. Aaron was nice to hear. I was kind of expecting to like Alli and ended up not quite. Her singing was good, but her Stevie impression doesn't need to be on Broadway. Nicole was okay. Not mindblowing.
Date: 2/14/09
Cast: Nicole Parker as Elphaba. Alli Mauzey as Glinda. Aaron Tveit as Fiyero
Type: Audio
Well, to be honest I wasn't in love with it. The show's a mess and just feels too damn long. Aaron was nice to hear. I was kind of expecting to like Alli and ended up not quite. Her singing was good, but her Stevie impression doesn't need to be on Broadway. Nicole was okay. Not mindblowing.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Day 73-1/31/10
Show: Wicked
Date: 1/11/05
Cast: Shoshana Bean (Elphaba), Jennifer Laura Thompson (Glinda), David Ayers (Fiyero), Michelle Federer (Nessarose) , George Hearn (Wizard), Carole Shelley (Madame Morrible), William Youmans (Dr. Dillamond), Jeffery Kuhn (Boq)
Type: Audio
So, I actually liked this one.
Kidding. Kind of.
I didn't like the plot any more than I usually do, but I liked the voices so much better. I like how Shoshana's voice has a mixture of powerful and sweetness. The only part where she wasn't so great was in Wizard and I and Defying Gravity. In both songs when she says "Meeeeeeeeee" she sounded kind of weak.
Jennifer was really great. She didn't play Galinda as annoying and forced cutesy as the others I've heard before her. Her voice was beautiful and I was impressed. Not that I was surprised, a friend of mine pretty much knows every Glinda backwards and forwards and said that she's the best.
Date: 1/11/05
Cast: Shoshana Bean (Elphaba), Jennifer Laura Thompson (Glinda), David Ayers (Fiyero), Michelle Federer (Nessarose) , George Hearn (Wizard), Carole Shelley (Madame Morrible), William Youmans (Dr. Dillamond), Jeffery Kuhn (Boq)
Type: Audio
So, I actually liked this one.
Kidding. Kind of.
I didn't like the plot any more than I usually do, but I liked the voices so much better. I like how Shoshana's voice has a mixture of powerful and sweetness. The only part where she wasn't so great was in Wizard and I and Defying Gravity. In both songs when she says "Meeeeeeeeee" she sounded kind of weak.
Jennifer was really great. She didn't play Galinda as annoying and forced cutesy as the others I've heard before her. Her voice was beautiful and I was impressed. Not that I was surprised, a friend of mine pretty much knows every Glinda backwards and forwards and said that she's the best.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Day 36-12/25/09
Merry Christmas
Show: Wicked
Date: 1/11/09 LA
Cast: Eden Espinosa and Megan Hilty
Type: Video
Meh. Again. I don't think I hated either as much as I hated Idina and Kristen, but not crazy about this. At all.
Show: Wicked
Date: 1/11/09 LA
Cast: Eden Espinosa and Megan Hilty
Type: Video
Meh. Again. I don't think I hated either as much as I hated Idina and Kristen, but not crazy about this. At all.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Day 8-11/27/09
Show: Wicked
Date: 2003 (San-Francisco, Pre-Broadway)
Type: Audio (Soundboard)
Cast: Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Joel Grey, Norbert Leo Butz, Carole Shelley, Christopher Fitzgerald, Michelle Federer,
Kind of despised this show. Not all of it or it in its entirety. But parts of it, a lot of it.
First off I think Idina and Kristen are tragically overrated. Idina doesn't sound that good all the time and Kristen's voice, while impeccable, is irritating. Also, how is anyone supposed to believe they are college students? I find the story line dumb, painful, and at times disgusting. It's half campy and half bogged down with the disturbing plot of harming animals. The campy part is okay, I kind of like that. But the dark part, which to me seemed like a majority of the show is borderline unbearable. My heart really aches for Elphaba and the poor animals, but I don't feel like its a good thing in this case.
Because this is Pre-Broadway there were a lot of things here that changed. I'm not sure of all of them because I am not super-savvy with this show, but there were definitely lyric changes. I can't really place an opinion of the different lyrics because I can't say it made much of a difference. The song Dancing Through Life isn't in this, instead a song called Which Way To The Party? which has a lot of the bits that Dancing Through Life had but it's really different. Dancing Through Life is a million times better, it was a good change. Also after the lion cub scene Morrible announces that Dr. Dillamond has died and there's a funeral for him. You find out he's not dead after Wonderful which is the same as it was on Broadway.
I will admit that the music is really great in this, all of the underscoring and songs are beautiful. But the plot is just so bad, honestly. Also I can't stand the way they mispronounce/add syllables like "ignorify"
It's a pity that a majority of shows that I have are Wicked.
See you tomorrow with Lost in Yonkers!
Date: 2003 (San-Francisco, Pre-Broadway)
Type: Audio (Soundboard)
Cast: Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Joel Grey, Norbert Leo Butz, Carole Shelley, Christopher Fitzgerald, Michelle Federer,
Kind of despised this show. Not all of it or it in its entirety. But parts of it, a lot of it.
First off I think Idina and Kristen are tragically overrated. Idina doesn't sound that good all the time and Kristen's voice, while impeccable, is irritating. Also, how is anyone supposed to believe they are college students? I find the story line dumb, painful, and at times disgusting. It's half campy and half bogged down with the disturbing plot of harming animals. The campy part is okay, I kind of like that. But the dark part, which to me seemed like a majority of the show is borderline unbearable. My heart really aches for Elphaba and the poor animals, but I don't feel like its a good thing in this case.
Because this is Pre-Broadway there were a lot of things here that changed. I'm not sure of all of them because I am not super-savvy with this show, but there were definitely lyric changes. I can't really place an opinion of the different lyrics because I can't say it made much of a difference. The song Dancing Through Life isn't in this, instead a song called Which Way To The Party? which has a lot of the bits that Dancing Through Life had but it's really different. Dancing Through Life is a million times better, it was a good change. Also after the lion cub scene Morrible announces that Dr. Dillamond has died and there's a funeral for him. You find out he's not dead after Wonderful which is the same as it was on Broadway.
I will admit that the music is really great in this, all of the underscoring and songs are beautiful. But the plot is just so bad, honestly. Also I can't stand the way they mispronounce/add syllables like "ignorify"
It's a pity that a majority of shows that I have are Wicked.
See you tomorrow with Lost in Yonkers!