Wicked Goes on Tour

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.