Wicked the Musical Info - Wicked Broadway, Wicked Chicago and more

“Wicked,” was nominated for ten Tony Awards the year it first premiered on Broadway (2004) and went home with three, including Best Leading Actress for Menzel (though Chenoweth was also nominated), and Best Scenic Design and Best Costume Design. While the play lost of Avenue Q for Best Musical, the Wicked stage has continued to see success with six Drama Desk Awards and nominations for Laurence Olivier Awards three years later. Though it isn’t a specific category, the music of Wicked remains one of the most well known aspect of the show, including the single “Defying Gravity” that was song by Menzel as Elphababa. Here are the powerful lyrics, and to see it performed live get Wicked tickets today: 

why couldn’t you have stayed calm for 

once, instead of flying off the handle! 
(sung) I hope you’re happy! 
I hope you’re happy now 
I hope you’re happy how you 
Hurt your cause forever 
I hope you think you’re clever! 

ELPHABA 
I hope you’re happy 
I hope you’re happy, too 
I hope you’re proud how you 
Would grovel in submission 
To feed your own ambition 

BOTH 
So though I can’t imagine how 
I hope you’re happy right now 

GLINDA 
(spoken) Elphie, listen to me. Just say you’re sorry: 
(sung) You can still be with the Wizard 
What you’ve worked and waited for 
You can have all you ever wanted: 

ELPHABA 
(spoken) I know: 
(sung) But I don’t want it - 
No - I can’t want it 
Anymore: 

Something has changed within me 
Something is not the same 
I’m through with playing by the rules 
Of someone else’s game 
Too late for second-guessing 
Too late to go back to sleep 
It’s time to trust my instincts 
Close my eyes: and leap! 

It’s time to try 
Defying gravity 
I think I’ll try 
Defying gravity 
And you can’t pull me down!