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Welcome to Unlimited, a fansite and fanlisting for the smash-hit musical, Wicked. Wicked is a musical whose story is loosely based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz. It tells the story of Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. Their friendship struggles through their opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, their reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's public fall from grace. It has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a libretto by Winnie Holzman. Unlimited is currently run and maintained by Camilla and Michi since June 2008. If you're a fan of this wonderful musical, then we urge you to join the fanlisting which is listed at The Fanlistings Network under the category Stage/Theatre. It was previously owned by Anne, who adopted it out to Camilla in June 2008. Feel free to look around the site and if you have any questions or comments, feel free to send us an e-mail at xoxocamichi@gmail.comnews
From Desert News:
"Who can say if I've been changed for the better? But, because I knew you, I have been changed for good."
Most of you are already singing along. If not, that's a line from the hit musical "Wicked," which flies into Salt Lake City's Capitol Theatre in April.
During a sneak peek of the upcoming tour this past Tuesday, there weren't many dry eyes in the house; pretty amazing considering the ladies singing were just in street clothes and there was no set-up for the song.
Just the song — which had plenty in the small gathering digging for tissues.
Broadway in Utah, producer David Stone and a video message from composer Stephen Schwartz introduced us to a musical that, frankly, needs no introduction.
But, just so no one is left out ... it's the story of what happened before Dorothy dropped in — the prequel, if you will, to "The Wizard of Oz." The background of Glinda the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch of the West, known in this musical as Elphaba. (If you're catching up, Elphaba is a derivative of L. Frank Baum, author of "The Wizard of Oz.")
With a couple of video montages in between, Stone talked about the amazing success of the musical, shared some e-mails from fans, answered questions and assured the crowd that the production values enjoyed on Broadway are present in the tour.
After an oddly placed statement encouraging us to do "everything we can" to see that Salt Lake gets a new theater, there were some really interesting facts presented.
— Salt Lake City is, roughly, a No. 35 market. Meaning we're about the 35th biggest city — somewhere below Portland and San Antonio but above Las Vegas and Orlando. But when it comes to purchasing the "Wicked" soundtrack, we're No. 7, beating out Atlanta, Boston and other big cities.
— Capitol Theatre has already sold a record number of tickets to the show.
— The musical took the creative staff about 5 years to create, from start to finish.
— It takes Elphaba about 15 minutes to put on the green skin coloring, and "days" to get it all off.
— In translating the show for other countries, there are often interesting hurdles to jump. For instance, the concept of being "popular" doesn't exist in Japan. They thought it meant being famous, "like Paris Hilton," so writers had to make a few changes to the story.
— Yes, there will be a movie someday, but Stone said it probably won't be for seven to 10 more years. Yikes! Creators struggle with not wanting a movie to pull focus from the tours and Broadway shows. (Incidentally, he also said it will not star Kristin Chenoweth, who "just turned 40.")
After seeing the presentation and hearing the two ladies, Donna Vivino as Elphaba and Emily Rozek as Glinda, I'm feeling pretty confident in the quality of the touring show. (Though they are not the two actresses coming to town, which is too bad, they were wonderful.)
Tickets are only on sale for season ticket holders now and will open up for single tickets sales "in December." Broadway in Utah said there will be an announcement on the sales date next month.
In an article published last Monday, July 14, Variety has reported that Marc Platt, producer of Wicked, and Universal Studios are in early talks for a movie version of the musical.
Here's an excerpt from the article:
"Platt and the studio are taking formative steps toward a screen adaptation of "Wicked," the stage musical that Universal co-finances and Platt produces with David Stone.
After crossing the $1 billion mark in worldwide stage gross and opening its eighth production in Australia, "Wicked" has become one of the studio's most profitable investments and could follow a stage-to-screen track reminiscent of "Mamma Mia!" which U bows Friday.
Platt, who transitioned from U production prexy to producer under Stacey Snider and Ron Meyer, has been at the studio for a decade. While he remains close with Snider (who left to run DreamWorks), he said he's loyal to Meyer -- who championed U's investment in "Wicked" -- and has developed strong ties to U Pictures chairman Marc Shmuger, co-chairman David Linde and production president Donna Langley.
U brass has made it a priority to lock up their big suppliers, and Platt's pact follows longterm deals made by Imagine Entertainment and Working Title.
"Marc has strong commercial tastes, but so eclectic that you can't put him in a box or category," Langley said. "Our goal now is absolutely to make the 'Wicked' film, but much like Judy Craymer wouldn't give up screen rights to 'Mamma Mia!' until the stage show had reached its pinnacle, Marc and Stephen Schwartz are very mindful of the right timing. But we're dying to do it."
Platt, who produced the play with Stone and U, confirmed they are in early movie talks, and that book writer Winnie Holzman will write the script."
I'm very much excited to know of this and I do hope it will push through and would not disappoint. Also, finding out that Winnie Holzman is in and will write the script makes it a huge thing considering she wrote the musical's libretto.
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