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Music : Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
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Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast) by: Stephen Schwartz, Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel List Price: $18.98 CD-Charts Price: $9.99 You Save: $8.99 (47%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD Brand: WICKED EAN: 0602498613436 Format: Cast Recording Label: Decca Broadway Manufacturer: Decca Broadway Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Decca Broadway Release Date: December 16, 2003 Studio: Decca Broadway Sales Rank: 57 MPN: 602498613436 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: WICKED Title: ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING Street Release Date: 12/16/2003 Genre: CAST RECORDINGS Amazon.com: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Amazing amazing amazing!!!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! Rating:  - Oohs and ahhsJust 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 ... Read More: Rating: - Something Wicked This Way ComesAbsolutely loved this and wish I could have seen the production with the original cast. Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth's voices mesh so well together. Their voices just evoke such emotion. This story of how the Elphaba became the Wicked Witch of the West is interesting. It reminds me of a noir story. Every action has a consequence. The music and songs are successful in conveying the complexity of the story. Rating: - EXCELLENT!!!!!!!Great cd - Great music - Great show! I love this album! Fast shipping from Amazon - excellent product! Rating: - Fantastic!Absolutely wonderful! I love the music and the CD came in the condition I expected. Thank you! |
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