Celebrating Wicked’s Success at Proctor’s

Gregory Maguire has made a life out of his Wicked series, and mostly ecause the first novel “Wicked” was made into a hit Broadway show that has allowed him to announce special events and performances throughout the globe. Recently Maguire was in Proctors to announce a few hundred guests at the theatre’s opening season gala Saturday for the induction into the Capital Region Entertainment Hall of Fame. Inducted as the second set of honorees to the Hall of Fame at Proctors, along with Maureen O’Sullivan, Bruce Jordan and Marilyn Abrams, as well as producers of the stage comedy “Shear Madness” and brothers Guha and Karthik Bala, who developed the Vicarious Visions in Menands as well as being recognized for the developers of “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.” The group is only the second following last year’s actor Kirk Doulgas, Maureen Stapleton and Monty Woolley, independent filmmaker John Sayles, General Electric Co. engineer Ernst F.W. Alexanderson and Frederick Freeman Proctor, who started the theater. WRGB, the world’s oldest continually running TV station, and New York’s first radio station, WGY, all of whom have lived or were born in the Capitol Region.

Wicked tickets for the show will begin selling at Proctor’s on Friday and show Decemeber 9th through January 3rd.

Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2009

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