Wicked by the Numbers

Found this great compilation of interesting facts and stats on The Wizard of Oz and all its subsequent interpretations, including Wicked the Musical, on an indielondon.co.uk post by writer Jack Foley. Some highlights follow, and you can find his full article here.
-L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, his first book in the Oz series, had a full thirteen sequels written over a period of twenty years (I only knew about the first two!)

-Over a ton of dry ice is used every week to create the fog in Wicked.
-The American Film Institute voted the Wicked Witch of the West (later to become Gregory McGuire’s Elphaba) as the fourth greatest screen villain of all time, coming in behind Star Wars’s Darth Vader, Psycho’s Norman Bates, and Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs.

-The Broadway production of Wicked has sold out over one thousand performances, and over two million people have seen this production alone.

-It’s been Broadway’s top-selling show every single week for over two years!

Those are just some of the interesting tidbits and numbers that Mr. Foley has pulled together. Check out his site for the full story.

And tickets are always available on StubHub’s Wicked Tickets forum, where fans go to buy and sell tickets to the brand-new hundred-year-old story of the Wicked Witch of the West.

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More Wicked Records

Wicked just keeps setting records in several ways.  The latest incredible statistic to come out is that the production has broken yet another weekly revenue record by raking in over $1.7 million during Thanksgiving week alone on Broadway.  The show’s unbelievalbe success has led to demand for performances all over the world, so if you haven’t yet seen Wicked, head to StubHub.com for Wicked tickets in your area.

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