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Tuesday, December 28th 2004

Ok... So at 1 am, I was struggling to finish my Physics homework and send out my college essays. Well, my mom was so angry that I did not finish it the day before that she called up the hotel and cancelled our trip to Broadway (To see Wicked).

Take note- those who know me, I have been obsessing over this musical for months now… I ran upstairs, slammed the door, and BAWLED my eyes out and cried really loudly. After about 20 mins of this, she came in and told me that it was my fault the trip was cancelled because I did not finish my homework. After about an hour, she came back and said that if I brought my textbook along on the trip, we could still go. I stayed up till 6am trying to finish my homework… Then, I woke up at 9 to go to the dentist and rushed to school to get my textbook (thankfully, the school was open because of a track meet…).

I quickly drove home and showed her my textbook. We left the house at 11:30 and had to stop to get gas and air for the tire… by the time we headed out, it was 12:30, and the lottery started at 4:30 (and we still had to check into the hotel). My mom sped to the hotel in 2 hours (45 mins less than the estimated time). Then we drove to Broadway. And guess what, the traffic wasn’t backed up for 1 hour like it usually is on a regular day.

She dropped us off at the Gershwin Theater at 4:10. The line was already backed up to the streets… My sister, mom and I put our names in for drawing, but had to wait another 30 mins extra because more people kept joining the line. There were at least 300-400 people there. I stood (behind the green line…) and prayed, which I had been doing since I heard we were going to NY. They announced the first 7 people and my named still hadn’t been called. I kept praying… oh yeah – it started snowing! Then they selected 5 more cards and read them off. When I heard my named called, I was SO happy!!! My mom bought us the Vocal Selections book, a T-shirt, and a long sleeve shirt!(I couldn’t be happier!)

I got front row seats on SL and I could see the people in the pit, and I could touch the stage. My sister was also very excited. OK.. so show goes on, and I am in awe of the talent of cast and crew, and there are SO many scenes happening 2 feet away from me. G(a)linda, played by Megan Hilty (Who was SUPERB), and Elphaba (Thank God it was Idina Menzel!), had like 5 scenes where I could almost reach out and touch them!!! AH!
And the trap door was RIGHT IN FRONT of me!!!!!! It was SO AWSOME!!!!!

OK. Almost done. The balcony where Mdm M and Boq talk on were straight up from my seat. And Christopher Fitzgerald spit on me! UGH. Lmao… (During the Witch Hunter scene “It’s due to her I look this was, her spell made this occur”)

After the show, I got autographs from C. Fitz, Megan Hilty (When she came out, this little 8 year old girl sang Popular to her (it was really out of tune… but cute. And then Megan H. said “ Wow… You’re gonna put me out of a job!”), and Idina Menzel! Before she came out, the policeman came out and said that there will be no posing for photographs, no touching, and no hugging. She finally came out!!! And the little 8 year old girl sang “Defying Gravity” to her. (the ending where she goes “Bring me down…….AH!!”) and it was SO cute, and out of tune… But Idina Menzel was like “AWWwwwww…. That’s So cute!” and she gave the little girl a hug!!

Sorry for the long story!

Review -The characters were portrayed VERY well. The Room assignment line was definately messed up. Idina Menzel was coughing in a few songs and always struggling for breath. I think she was sick. Megan Hilty was amazing... I loved her as G(a)linda. Joey was also Very good...and so was Boq. I love Boq.. and Nessa..

wow I knew that Megan performed with Idina but I thought that was after Kristin left hmm cool lol

This was after Kristin left

Sounds exciting! Wow. Thanks for sharing.

yeah exciting.

Hey, I was at this performance! Thanks so much for the review!