'Wicked' comes back to San Francisco
The Broadway musical "Wicked," which began its charmed life in San Francisco years ago, will be returning to that city for an open-ended run. Playbill.com reports:
West Coast "Wicked" fans, fear not. Although the Los Angeles production (with Megan Hilty, pictured) of the hit Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical will play its final performance at the Pantages Theatre Jan. 11, 2009, another open-ended production will begin that same month in San Francisco. San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre will be the home of the latest sit-down production of Wicked, which began life in a tryout at San Fran's Curran Theatre before arriving on Broadway.
I know there are a lot of Fresno "Wicked" fans out there, so next year you can travel north instead of south. What this means, of course, is that there is even less of a chance of the musical coming to the Saroyan Theatre anytime soon.
Comments:
i was SO excited about this post until the final sentence.
boo for bringing me down, donald. but any post on "wicked" is welcome.
any updates on the film version?
Posted by: will at April 9, 2008 3:54 PM
Not sure about a "Wicked" movie, Will. I'm sure there will be one eventually, but it'll probably take a while. (Let's just say the show will play at the Saroyan long before a movie comes out.) Here's a story I found from Playbill.com (link at http://www.playbill.com/news/article/100672.html):
It's a smash on Broadway. A smash on tour. A smash in a Chicago sitdown. And this fall it will take London's West End by storm. Is it too soon to talk about a film version of the musical, Wicked?
"Actually, we haven't talked about it at all," composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz told Playbill.com. "My assumption has been that because [Wicked producer] Universal is a motion picture company that eventually they are going to get around to wanting to talk about a movie, since they have the right of first refusal on it. But at this point it's still kind of early in the game for us. We're just starting to launch some of the foreign productions and it remains to be seen the extent to which this will translate outside of he United States. We're going to learn that over next couple of years."
Rabid fans of the musical, based on the Gregory Maguire novel, which tells the backstory of the witches of "The Wizard of Oz," are likely already making up their speculative lists of who should play Elphaba and Galinda (aka Glinda) in any future movie version.
Posted by: Donald Munro at April 10, 2008 11:40 AM
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