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The Wicked Witch of the West has worked her way to Toronto and audiences agree that it’s good to be wicked. 

Not that we’re surprised. 

The Toronto Star gave the Wicked witch a score of four stars out of four and says the show is totally wicked.  “Elphaba and Glinda, those beguiling witches who won Toronto’s hearts last year, have come back for another visit and this time let’s hope they stay through the holidays.” 

In other ‘Wicked’ news, Eden Espinosa played her final performance of the perhaps not-so-wicked-witch Elphaba on October 8.  The former star of Brooklyn is the third actress to dawn green makeup and show us a witch more misunderstood than wicked.  

Now, Ana Gasteyer is back in the role she once played to Tony-winning effect.  Her other appearances, though lacking in green, have been on “Saturday Night Live,” The Threepenny Opera, The Rocky Horror Show, and off-Broadway in The Vagina Monologues. 

Wicked has been delighting audiences.  The show is currently in Toronto, as part of its 14-city tour that will take it next to Providence, Rhode Island.  Fans looking to get their hands on Wicked Tickets are sure to get a delight out of this wicked production.   

The soundtrack to Wicked is now one of the top-selling CDs in America.  And why not?  It’s nothing new for composer Stephen Schwartz, whose music has often reached beyond the traditional theater audience.   

Besides Broadway, Schwartz has composed for movies and TV, earning three Grammy Awards, three Oscars, and four Drama Desk Awards. Audiences have a rare opportunity to hear the music of Stephen Schwartz, given that the Broadway hit Wicked is on tour.  The show is currently delighting audiences in Toronto until the end of November and will then hop on its broomstick and fly into Providence, Rhode Island.  

Audiences in New York are gearing up to celebrate Wicked Day on October 29, in celebration of the third anniversary of the Broadway hit.  The block party will be outside the Gershwin Theater. 

Fans looking to get their hands on Wicked Tickets can get tickets for the national tour and should also keep their eyes peeled when the Wicked Witch of the West whisks her way into New York at the end of October.  

The Broadway show ‘Wicked,’ a sensation in New York City, has started its 14-City tour.  The show begins its national tour on the West Coast in Portland, Oregon, and ends in October 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts. 
  

During the span of the next year, the Wicked Witch of the West will work her way through Portland, Seattle, Toronto, Providence, Baltimore, Tampa, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, Columbus, East Lansing, Philadelphia, and then Boston.  

‘Wicked’ has thrilled New York audiences for the past three years.  The Seattle Post Intelligencer comments that the show never loses its magic for its writer, Gregory Maguire.  “I’ve seen ‘Wicked’ 19 or 20 times, it’s like an addiction,” says Maguire.  

The Chicago Sun Times says that ‘Wicked’ works because audiences of every age find something in the show that they like.  “Wicked has worked its magic the old-fashioned way…by connecting with audiences through its accessible music, story and characters.” 

Anne Marie Welsh, a Union-Tribune Theater Critic says, “Witty ‘Wicked’ delights a spellbound Audience.”  

People who have not had the chance to catch the Wicked Witch on stage are in a flurry to get Wicked Tickets as the show tours the country.  Ticket prices vary depending on the location.  Tickets in Seattle, where ‘Wicked’ will be traveling next, run from $40 to $309.  Tickets in Boston, where the show will finish its tour next fall, run from $171 to $348.