Wicked Heads to the City by The Bay

The Los Angeles production of Wicked is set to close the curtains come January 2009.  However, all west coast Wicked fans can rest assured, the musical will relocate to San Francisco during that same month.  The Orpheum Theater in San Francisco will be the home of the latest sit-down production of Wicked.  In fact the popular musical got its first start in the City by the Bay at the Curran Theater before it arrived on Broadway.  In a statement posted on Playbill.com producer David Stone said, “This is an exciting homecoming for Wicked, and we are thrilled to present this open-ended engagement in San Francisco, the city where it all began almost five years ago.”

According to press notes posted on Playbill.com, Wicked “explores the early life of the witches of Oz: Glinda and Elphaba.  The two main characters meet at Shiz, a school where both hope to take up sorcery.  Glinda is madly popular and Elphaba is, well, green.  By a misunderstanding, they wind up roommates and, after an initial period of mutual loathing, begin to learn something about each other.  Their life paths continue to intersect through a shared love, entry into the Emerald City and interaction with the Wizard himself.  Eventually, their choices and convictions take them on widely different paths.”  Be sure to catch this musical live on stage with your pair of Wicked tickets.

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