Get em' while they last!


The final block of tickets went on sale
for WICKED this past week! 


The Chicago production of "Wicked" will close Jan. 25, 2009, following its 1,500th performance.

Variety reported that the 3½-year-old Chicago incarnation shuts down while still riding high. The WICKED run in Chicago will have grossed more than $200 million since it began  June 24, 2005, breaking Chicago box office records and heralding the city's potential for long-term commercial stays.

Producer David Stone credited presenter Broadway in Chicagoand city leaders with billing the show as a tourist attraction for the entire Midwest.



It has been hugely popular and will be missed.

FYI - Wicked is a musical with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. The story is 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.

Wicked 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.

The plot is set mostly before Dorothy's arrival from Kansas, and includes several references to well-known scenes and dialogue in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.


*  You can also  purchase a tour  ticket for Behind The Emerald Curtain. $25 for 60 minute tour. A behind the scenes look at this blockbuster musical, every Tuesday at 5 pm and select Wednesdays at 10:30 am!



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