Logan Lipton gets rave reviews as Boq in Broadway’s production of “Wicked”

Staring previously in “Hello, Dolly!” “Pirates of Penzance” and the Tony-Award-winning musical “Ragtime” at the award-winning Vermont Summer Theatre, 28-year-old Logan Lipton has made a name for himself and continues to do that playing Boq in the smash hit Broadway musical “Wicked.” As the unusually large munchkin in the Land of Oz, Boq - a.k.a. Lipton - is in love with Glinda, the Good Witch of the East, but is unwillingly paired with Nessarose (Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West’s, sister). He is eventually stripped of his rights by Nessarose to leave Munchkinland all together and turned into a “tin woodman” by one of the evil sister’s spells-gone-wrong. Replacing the original Boq, Chris Fitzgerald, Lipton has been referred to by play critics as giving the character a “quirky vitality” that other actors in the same role did not, and was praised by a Talkin Broadway.com critic as having “a great velvet toned voice as Boq, reminiscent of Joey Grey” in manner.

The production of “Wicked” the musical has been a smash hit since it debuted on Broadway more than three years ago and continues its reign of success with the national tour, which is playing the big cities of Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and London. The story, created by Stephen Schwartz and based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, centers on the Land of Oz and tells the story of the unlikely friendship between Glinda and Elphaba, long before Dorothy and Toto ever enter the picture. When the two witches-in-training enter sorcery school and are paired accidentally as roommates, the pair of seemingly opposites find out they have more in common then they had suspected and set off on a journey to Emerald City together. See how their relationship unravels while taking in this musical’s sing-along tunes and eye-catching costumes, engulfed in an intricate plot that weaves themes of self-discovery and bringing the underdog to the light. For Wicked tickets, visit Stubhub.com.

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