can someone summarize the musical WICKED ??

Answer 1

Wicked is about how the two witches of Oz know each other. The musical is entirely different, and lighter, than the book. In the musical, the two witches are forced to be roommates at school. They initially hate each other, but grow to become best friends. They go to meet the Wizard, but they find out he's not who they thought he was. Elphaba (the Wicked Witch) turns against the wizard because of what he's doing to Animals.

The second act is about what the girls become - Galinda becomes Glinda the good and Elphie the "Wicked" witch. There's a sub plot about them liking the same guy and about who he ends up choosing, but I won't give that away. AND you find out why Elphaba is so powerful.

The plot kinda sounds dumb just reading it (I thought so, too at first), but it is really a magical experience. I would recommed it for anyone! The story is about these two women growing up and the real depths of their friendship.

Answer 2

Information from Playbill.
Wicked takes a revisionist look at an American icon of evil and discovers how the young Elphaba, a passionate, committed young woman from Oz, becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. Her character is contrasted with that of her school roommate Glinda, who grows up to be the Good Witch.


Here is the link: http://www.playbill.com/events/event_detail/2236.html

Answer 3

At Shiz University, Elphaba Thropp (who is at the school with her handicapped sister Nessarose), a smart green-skinned girl meets the beautiful and ambitious Galinda Upland (who changes her name to Glinda and then to Glinda the Good). The two become room mates but don’t hit it off two well. Everyone hates Elphaba, they make fun of her because she is green and call her wicked. While in school, Elphaba soon learns that things in Oz aren’t always as they seem. Galinda and Elphaba’s lives start to intertwine and throughout the show their friendship struggles to endure extreme personality differences, opposing viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, and Elphaba's eventual fall from grace.

Answer 4

i did not like the musical in any respect, and that i will grant you with a track by potential of track breakdown of why, yet you'll change into bored, and that i might want to offer away the ending. even as others have in reality summarized the plot, i does no longer propose spending $25 even for lottery tickets to pass see it. i might want to pass again if someone paid me, yet this is it.

Answer 5

The story is written as a prelude to L. Frank Baum's classic book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It is more heavily influenced by the book than the iconic 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz, which differs from the book in a number of ways. Set in the days prior to Dorothy's arrival from Kansas, Wicked explores the idea that the infamous antagonist we call the Wicked Witch of the West was a misconstrued, victimized person. Her alleged wickedness was merely retaliation against a charlatan wizard's corrupt government.

At Shiz University, the intelligent green-skinned teenager, Elphaba Thropp, meets beautiful and ambitious Galinda Upland (who changes her name to Glinda during the course of the play and later becomes Glinda the Good) when the two become roommates. Their lives intertwine, and throughout the show their friendship struggles to endure extreme personality differences, opposing viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, and of course Elphaba's eventual tragic fall from grace.
ACT I - Wicked Synopsis and Song Commentary
1. NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED - Glinda and Citizens of Oz

Combining celebrative feeling with the show's edgy irony, this somewhat melancholy and dramatic song introduces the frame for the storyline. Wicked begins with the celebration of the death of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, as we would have seen towards the end of The Wizard of Oz movie, just after Dorothy melted her by accidentally throwing a bucket of water in her direction. Here we first meet Glinda and learn the "official" story of the Wicked Witch's demise. At the end of the song and scene, the timeline shifts to Elphaba's birth, and then jumps to her college days.

With its tone, this song introduces the "Things are not what they seem" theme which the audience will appreciate by the finale.

2. DEAR OLD SHIZ - Galinda and Students

The jump in the story timeline from Elphaba's birth to her college days creates a need for some transitional material. This song provides stage time for the students to enter little by little, culminating in Galinda's grand arrival, dressed in a creamy white suit and riding a luggage cart pushed in by someone else. It suggests the superficial togetherness of the student body. The students are in fact quite unaccepting of a certain green-skinned freshman.

3. THE WIZARD AND I - Morrible, Elphaba

This is Elphaba's "I Want" number. It introduces what she wants on the surface. It also hints at her subconscious desire to be accepted by a fatherly figure that the Wizard represents, as made more poignant by her being snubbed by Frex, the father she grew up with who favors the other daughter, Nessarose. For details on the development of this song, subscribe to The Schwartz Scene, and ask for Issue 13.

4. WHAT IS THIS FEELING? - Galinda, Elphaba, and Students (Read article about the writing of "What is This Feeling")

There has to be a moment when we see the future friends as enemies. This is the beginning of their journey to friendship-the initial loathing that shifts to a deep bond later on.

5. SOMETHING BAD (happening in oz) - Dr. Dillamond and Elphaba

The mistreatment of talking Animals provides a storytelling vehicle for the political element of the tale. Something "Baaaaad" (as bleated by the talking Goat professor Dr. Dillamond who may be losing his voice) introduces the conflict between the Wizard, Madame Morrible, and the Animals without giving away the whole story. This song hints at the nature of the Animal oppression. It also provides a context for the interaction between the goat and Elphaba, and on stage it's clear that these two at the fringe of Oz society are beginning to care about each other's welfare. Read more about Animals in Wicked - and lyrics to "Something Bad"

6. DANCING THROUGH LIFE-Fiyero, Galinda, Boq, Nessarose, Elphaba, and Students

A flunk-out from various other colleges, Prince Fiyero struts his stuff when he shows up at Shiz and introduces his philosophy "Dancing Through Life." In this song sequence, we are introduced to parts of the love triangles in the story: Nessarose longs for the attention of the munchkin Boq, who himself has been stricken with the charm of the unreachable Galinda from the moment he laid eyes on her. Events that occur in the course of this sequence change Elphaba's and Galinda's relationship, beginning its ascent to friendship.

7. POPULAR-Galinda

"Popular" is a "list song" in which Galinda enumerates her suggestions for what it takes to be popular. She also demonstrates the self-absorbed, prideful side of her character. (Kristin says her models for Galinda included the pageant girls she met earlier in her life.) It sets up what Elphaba is expected to want and therefore provides a contrast for her decision to reject popularity for the sake of principles.

8. I'M NOT THAT GIRL - Elphaba

Boy meets girl Number 1 (Elphaba). Boy goes off with girl Number 2 (Galinda). Girl Number 1 is sad and needs to sing about it.

Galinda changes her name to Glinda before her Emerald City trip


9. ONE SHORT DAY - Glinda, Elphaba, and Denizens of the Emerald City

It's gonna be a short day, though joyous at first. Elphaba is surrounded by green and is on her way to meet the Wizard who she may be able to work with in order to make Oz a better place and become accepted herself. The Wizomania section of the song is actually performed as a mini-musical that Elphaba and Glinda are attending as tourist in the Emerald City.

10. A SENTIMENTAL MAN-The Wizard

The Wizard has many layers. Here we see his tender side that gains Elphaba's trust-but not for long.

11. DEFYING GRAVITY - Elphaba, Glinda, Guards and Citizens of Oz

Glinda would like to see Elphaba conform and also realize her dream as expressed in "The Wizard and I." But when Elphaba discovers that the Wizard is behind the mistreatment of animals (as in Maguire's novel), she must change her dream. She takes a stand. This is her moment when she resolves to follow her new conviction based on her inner moral sense and care for Dr. Dillamond, even though it means social rejection.

ACT II Wicked Synopsis and Song Commentary
12. THANK GOODNESS --Glinda, Morrible, and Citizens of Oz

In this song we feel Fiyero's pull towards the missing green girl and his cavalier attitude towards Glinda, who has more or less foisted herself upon him. "Thank Goodness," while offering a word play with Glinda the Good who has created a festivity for the Oz citizens, is all about the irony of the situation. It's also about those experiences in everyone's life when what was anticipated turns out not to be so desirable as we once thought.

13. WONDERFUL - The Wizard, Elphaba

Here again, we see the Wizard's softer side, and learn that he got swept up (like Glinda) in the glamour of attention. He holds out the promise to Elphaba that, with him, she can fulfill her subconscious longing to be accepted by a fatherly figure.

14. I'M NOT THAT GIRL (reprise) - Glinda

In Act I, Boy went off with Girl Number 2 (Glinda). Now Girl Number 2 gets rejected when Boy goes off with Girl Number 1 (Elphaba). Glinda needs to sing about it. It helps us appreciate Girl Number 2's hurt that will motivate some of her later actions.

15. AS LONG AS YOU'RE MINE - Elphaba and Fiyero

It's been an almost impossible journey to romance. These two need to sing about it, make up for lost time, and comment on their future, which is completely insecure except for their mutual affection.

16. NO GOOD DEED - Elphaba

This song moment harkens back to the novel. When something negative happens to Fiyero, Elphaba becomes discouraged and begins in a sense to own the reputation that has been thrust upon her.

17. MARCH OF THE WITCH HUNTERS - Boq and Citizens of Oz

Affected by the smear campaign conducted by Madame Morrible and the Wizard, the Ozians set out to find the supposedly wicked Witch. They are ignorant of Elphaba's attempts to save the Animals.

18. FOR GOOD - Glinda and Elphaba
Glinda and Elphaba, whose friendship has been tested by circumstances and by the challenges of their relationship with Fiyero, find a way to see beyond their issues and feel their mutual love. They sing to each knowing "it well may be/that we will never meet again/in this lifetime..."

19. FINALE - All

We have come full circle to the melting scene and beyond, but things are not what they seemed when we started. Now we can appreciate the complete shifts that all the characters have gone through except Madame Morrible. It becomes clear why the music takes a slightly mournful tone. It's sad that no one mourns the supposedly "wicked" outcasts who may actually be the most worthy of our praise. It underscores the social message: don't jump too quickly to judge by what you see happening on the surface.