Wicked!

"It's good to see me, isn't it? No need to answer, that was rhetorical."

~Glinda

For KJ's 21st b-day, I took her to see the musical, "Wicked," playing at the Benadem Theater in downtown Pittsburgh. Laura took Jill and Kurt earlier in the month, but both KJ and I were out of town when they went, so we missed out. This worked out great though... a fun night out for just the two of us.

It was a busy night downtown as Pittsburgh was celebrating it's 250th birthday and would be having the biggest fireworks display Zambelli ever put on in the US. There were also a couple of other productions being performed that night in local theaters, so the downtown theater district was packed with people milling around waiting to either see one production or another. The weather was gorgeous too. Mid 60's with blue skies, so it was just a spectacular night.

If you don't know anything about the show "Wicked," it's about how the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of OZ" really became wicked. It also reveals a few other interesting tidbits, and overall is a great show.

We had fairly decent seats. We were on the 2nd Tier, so pretty high up, but we were right on the railing behind the aisle, so no one was in front of us and we had a fairly straight on view of the stage.

The production was incredibly lavish, with great costumes, a fun story, and absolutely wonderful music. The lead actresses playing the main characters of Glenda the Good Witch, and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West had wonderful voices and were just phenomenal all night. At the end, KJ and I gasped at the ending and wildly clapped with the rest of the packed house at the conclusion. It was a great musical and I would gladly go see it again.