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Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast) | 
 enlarge | Artists: Stephen Schwartz, Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel
Label: Decca Broadway
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  877 reviews
Sales Rank: 84
Format: Cast Recording
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 602498613436
UPC: 602498613436
EAN: 0602498613436
ASIN: B0000TB01Y
Release Date: December 16, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | No One Mourns the Wicked - Cristy Candler | | • | Dear Old Shiz | | • | The Wizard and I - Idina Menzel | | • | What Is This Feeling? - Kristin Chenoweth | | • | Something Bad - William Youmans | | • | Dancing Through Life - Michelle Federer | | • | Popular - Kristin Chenoweth | | • | I'm Not That Girl - Idina Menzel | | • | One Short Day - Kristin Chenoweth | | • | A Sentimental Man - Joel Grey | | • | Defying Gravity - Idina Menzel | | • | Thank Goodness - Kristin Chenoweth | | • | Wonderful - Idina Menzel | | • | I'm Not That Girl (Reprise) - Kristin Chenoweth | | • | As Long as You're Mine - Norbert Leo Butz | | • | No Good Deed - Idina Menzel | | • | March of the Witch Hunters | | • | For Good - Kristin Chenoweth | | • | Finale - Kristin Chenoweth |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: WICKED
Title: ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING
Street Release Date: 12/16/2003
Domestic
Genre: CAST RECORDINGS
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One of the most common complaints about musicals is that the books are flimsy pretexts from which to hang numbers. Wicked runs into the opposite problem: it has a great plot, but too often the songs just get in the way. Based on Gregory Maguire's novel of the same name, Wicked tells us what happened between Glinda the Good and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, before Dorothy showed up in Oz. And the show is lucky to boast a pair of ace leading women in the main roles. As Glinda, Kristin Chenoweth delivers a sensational star turn, displaying a crystal-pure voice and sharp comic timing; Idina Menzel lends her powerful pipes to the tricky role of Elphaba. Unfortunately, you wish they had better material to work with. Stephen Schwartz's pop score is often dragged down by overly synthetic orchestrations and sentimental lyrics (think Chicken Soup for the Witch). Still, at its best Wicked is a seductive slice of popular entertainment that could well give a younger audience a lasting taste for musical theater. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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| Customer Reviews: Read 872 more reviews...
 Wonderful show!! November 25, 2008
This is an excellent CD and would be great for the family. Chosen music gives clear picture of the show.
Great music October 24, 2008
Item arrived as promised and in excellent condition. For lovers of musicals, it is a great CD that would enhance any collection.
Wicked October 24, 2008
I loved this CD and not only ordered one for myself, but ordered some for gifts. The music was wonderful and we are all looking forward now to seeing the play. What a great deal I got from Amazon.com. Why would I shop any where else.
Amazing amazing amazing!!! October 15, 2008
This has to be the best broadway cast recording i have heard in a long time. Idina and Kristin's voices are amazing. Even though they are totally different they mesh together so well. The orchestration is amazing as well. I love that almost whenever Elphie does a song its percussion and brass driven [almost like a lurking shadow effect] and when Glinda does a song its mostly strings and woodwinds. This CD is just genius. And the show is amazing defintaly go see it!
 Oohs and ahhs October 14, 2008
Just as the original Gregory Maguire novel on which this tremendously successful musical made hay by playing with the elements of Frank Baum's original WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, so too does this Winnie Holtzman-Stephen Schwartz work play with the conventions of musical theatre. There are power ballads and love duets, and a stirring recurring theme that recalls the early rock opera works of the Seventies (as well as Orff's "Carmina Burana"), and probably the most satisfying part of both the original cast album and the show itself are when its heroines go to see a show-within-a-show in the "One Short Day" number where the music of Jule Styne seems to be directly evoked. WICKED is by far the best musical that Schwartz ever wrote, and he was lucky enough to have a book that hit all the right notes with his audience and two stunning leads in Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth (as, respectively, Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, who in this story are old college roommates who become best friends--and then square uneasily when against one another during a complex political power struggle over the future of Oz). Unfortunately Joel Grey, as the Wizard, gives an unforgivably schmaltzy take on his big solo, "Wonderful" (which other actors have done much better with); but how could you find better singers in the lead roles than Menzel and Chenoweth? You have only to listen to the score to see why it's been such a success, and why so many younger theater-lovers know all the words to songs like "Popular" and "Defying Gravity."
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