Wicked Storms into Salt Lake City

Watch out, Salt Lake City: Wicked’s crop of young witches of Oz are on the fly and are heading straight for your neighborhood! Wicked is set to open in Utah later this week on April 8, playing a 32-show run in Salt Lake City until May 3, when the show will pick up and jet out in the same whirlwind it is about to enter. Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore!

Wicked hasn’t even opened in Salt Lake yet, but the Broadway tour is already causing a huge stir in the city. Tickets for the production went on sale last April, and theater fans have been snapping them up left and right ever since then. The Salt Lake Tribune has estimated that the current Wicked tour will have sold 60,000 tickets totaling $5.25 million by the time it closes in Utah in May, breaking all kinds of records and putting the show in third place in Broadway touring  productions behind the Donny Osmond-starring 1998 string of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and the 1996 run of Phantom of the Opera.

To get Wicked tickets, go to StubHub.com.

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