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DiscountDelight - Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
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List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $9.98
Your Save: $ 9.00 ( 47% )
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Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602498613436
Format: Cast Recording
Label: Decca
Manufacturer: Decca
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Decca
Release Date: 2003-12-16
Studio: Decca
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Excellent soundtrack
Comment: Great songs. Very enjoyable even though I haven't seen the show. Currently one of my favorite soundtracks.
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Summary: An absolute blast!
Comment: First, I have NOT seen the musical...boy, I wish I could but I love in a small, small town. I just got the CD after recommendation from one of my daughter's friends. We played the CD all the way home from vacation and then have since played it everytime we have gotten into the car. Popular..Lar is my favorite because it's upbeat and funny. I love all the others, except the spell casting song. I really wish I could see the musical then maybe I could understand the songs better. I love to sing with my daughters and this cd has produced hours of fun in just a few days! Oh yeah, my husband even enjoyed it..and this is totally not his cup of tea! He loved the percussion!
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Summary: An Amazing CD
Comment: I finally bought this CD this past Thursday after hearingmany of my friends talk nonstop about it for monnths, and I haven't stopped listening to it. This CD is AMAZING!! Idina Menzel (Elphaba) and Kristin Chenoweth (Glinda) both have beautiful voices that make you go wow! after listening to them sing. Norbert Leo Butz (Fyiero) also has a wonderful voice and plays the main guy other than the wizard. (He's not too bad to look at either!!) Some favorites include:
What Is This Feeling
Popular
One Short Day
Defying Gravity
As Long As Your Mine
No Good Deed
For Good (this one makes me cry!)
This CD is a must buy for fans of good Broadway, go buy it today!!
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Summary: Want a different opinion?
Comment: Saying you hate this musical is like saying you eat babies for breakfast. But I saw it this weekend, and hated it, and so did 5 of my friends. Pass the babies.
Every song--EVERY song--sounds the freakin' same. The Wizard's number starts out as a softshoe, but then changes its mind and goes back to schmaltzy pop. Glinda's "Popular" also starts well, but then falls apart (and several published reviews will confirm this). The rest of the soundtrack is the same old jumble of cookie-cutter musical theatre that we all know so well, with little variation between styles. They had so much leeway here--they're not bound by any specific time period or theme--so why make everything come out sounding like a Jazzercise class?
Quite aside from the music, the lyrics often don't make sense. Several of the characters are radically different from the versions we are familiar with (the Tin Man is capable of hate? What?). The songs do absolutely nothing to advance the plot (which moves at a snail's pace), or to develop characters. They're just tedious time-outs on a very long yellow brick road, and will have you checking your program compulsively to see how much more of this you have to sit through.
If you thought Phantom was genius, well....this is the musical for you. But if you like genuine writing talent and creativity, look elsewhere.
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Summary: wicked
Comment: The music is ok. Probably better if I had seen the show. I got it in good time.
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Editorial Reviews:
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One of the most common complaints about musicals is that the books are flimsy pretexts from which to hang numbers. Wicked runs into the opposite problem: it has a great plot, but too often the songs just get in the way. Based on Gregory Maguire's novel of the same name, Wicked tells us what happened between Glinda the Good and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, before Dorothy showed up in Oz. And the show is lucky to boast a pair of ace leading women in the main roles. As Glinda, Kristin Chenoweth delivers a sensational star turn, displaying a crystal-pure voice and sharp comic timing; Idina Menzel lends her powerful pipes to the tricky role of Elphaba. Unfortunately, you wish they had better material to work with. Stephen Schwartz's pop score is often dragged down by overly synthetic orchestrations and sentimental lyrics (think Chicken Soup for the Witch). Still, at its best Wicked is a seductive slice of popular entertainment that could well give a younger audience a lasting taste for musical theater. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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