"Wicked" Idina Menzel Kristin Chenoweth Signed 8X10 Color Photo Todd Mueller COA

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"Wicked" Idina Menzel & Kristin Chenoweth Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo.
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Wicked
is a
Broadway
musical, with music and lyrics by
Stephen Schwartz
and book by
Winnie Holzman
. It is based on the 1995
Gregory Maguire
novel
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
, itself a retelling of the classic 1900 novel,
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by
L. Frank Baum
and the 1939
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
film
The Wizard of Oz
. The musical is told from the perspective of the
witches
of the
Land of Oz
; its plot begins before and continues after
Dorothy Gale
arrives in Oz from
Kansas
, and includes several references to the 1939 film and Baum's novel.
Wicked
tells the story of two unlikely friends,
Elphaba
(the
Wicked Witch of the West
) and Galinda (whose name later changes to
Glinda the Good Witch
), who struggle through opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, reactions to the
Wizard
's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's private fall from grace. Produced by Universal Stage Productions in coalition with
Marc Platt
, Jon B. Platt and
David Stone
, with direction by
Joe Mantello
and choreography by
Wayne Cilento
, the original production of
Wicked
premiered on Broadway at the
Gershwin Theatre
in October 2003, after completing pre-Broadway tryouts at San Francisco's
Curran Theatre
in May/June of that same year. Its original stars included
Idina Menzel
as Elphaba,
Kristin Chenoweth
as Glinda, and
Joel Grey
as the Wizard.
The original Broadway production won three
Tony Awards
and seven
Drama Desk Awards
, while its original cast album received a
Grammy Award
.
Wicked
celebrated its 16th anniversary on Broadway on October 30, 2019. On October 28, with its 6,681st performance, it had surpassed
Les Misérables
to become Broadway's
fifth-longest running show
. A typical show takes about two hours and 30 minutes, along with an intermission.
The success of the Broadway production has spawned several other productions worldwide, including various North American productions, a long-running,
Laurence Olivier Award
–nominated
West End
production, and a series of international productions. Since its 2003 debut,
Wicked
has broken box-office records around the world, currently holding weekly-gross-takings records in Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, and London. In the week ending January 2, 2011, the London, Broadway, and both North American touring productions simultaneously broke their respective records for the highest weekly gross. In the final week of 2013, the Broadway production broke this record again, earning .2 million. In March 2016,
Wicked
surpassed billion in total Broadway revenue, joining both
The Phantom of the Opera
and
The Lion King
as the only Broadway shows to do so. In July 2017,
Wicked
surpassed
The Phantom of the Opera
as Broadway's second-highest grossing musical, trailing only behind
The Lion King
.
A
Universal Pictures
film adaptation, directed by
Jon M. Chu
with Platt and Stone returning as producers has been in development since 2004.