Musical ‘Wicked’ comes to Manila

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Wicked, Broadway’s top grossing musical, comes to Manila

MANILA, Philippines – Wicked, Broadway’s top grossing musical, comes to Manila
G Töngi reports.

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A musical extravaganza bigger than Mama Mia, Cats and Phantom of the Opera is coming to Manila.
Lunch Box producer James Cundall says Filipinos are clamoring to see Wicked.

JAMES CUNDALL, PRODUCER, LUNCH BOX THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS: I didn’t think there was a bigger musical than Phantom of the Opera but there is! And it’s called Wicked! Even more than Phantom, this is the show that people want!

A phenomenon that started 10 years ago on Broadway, Wicked makes history as the biggest grossing musical of all time.
A parallel tale to the famous Wizard of Oz, Wicked tells the untold tale of two witches from Oz and their unlikely friendship.
Elphaba and Glinda the Good sing the most memorable songs from the musical soundtrack.
Australian Suzie Mathers is Glinda the Good witch — pretty, vain and above all “popular”.
Australian Jemma Rix is the wicked green witch Elphaba — sensitive, passionate.
She “defies gravity”.
Mathers and Rix are looking forward to performing before a Philippine audience.

SUZIE MATHERS, ‘GLINDA THE GOOD’: We actually had our first taste of Filipinos in Singapore, we had our fair amount of people fly over to see us there and also I heard there was a petition on Facebook to get us here so that’s super exciting for us knowing that we’re coming, an audience that’s gonna embrace us with open arms.

JEMMA RIX, ELPHABA: Knowing that the audiences are gonna enjoy the show already gives you a buzz because to me, when you hear the applause, when you hear the laughter, it gives you so much energy and you love what you do, because you see how it affects people and so I think that’s really exciting and I can’t wait to experience that!

Cundall says the props, sets and costumes are exact replicas of the Broadway play.
Besides the spectacle of a grand production, the cast says the story of Wicked will captivate Filipinos.

SUZIE MATHERS, ‘GLINDA THE GOOD’: Things aren’t always as they seem, Elphaba has a heart of gold and what she does gets misconstrued and mis-communicated and so she is dubbed as “wicked” and it does challenge the belief: “What is Wicked ”? There’s love, comedy, loss..all the good qualities of a great story!

Wicked opens at the CCP Mainstage on January 22, 2014, but only for a limited run of three weeks.

G TONGI, REPORTING: The Australian cast of Wicked Manila promises to be an exact replica of the show on Broadway. Don’t miss your chance to see this spellbinding musical! G Töngi, Rappler- Manila.

– Rappler.com


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