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June 05, 2006
Feeling WICKED!
I saw Wicked at the Masonic Temple Theater in Detroit last week. Wickedly entertaining! If you don't have tickets yet you're pretty much out of luck this round. It will probably tour for years though. Read Gregory Maguire's Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West: a novel, followed by his sequel Son of a Witch: a novel, and eagerly anticipate its return. [Aside: Someone apparently really liked the books excessively--the Thompson Library no longer has copies. There are copies in the Hatcher Graduate and Shapiro libraries in Ann Arbor that can be requested using the "Get This" feature in the Mirlyn online catalog. I'd reorder tham, but there won't be any money until about November, budget craziness.]
The first book tells the familiar story of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the point of view of Elphaba, a young woman afflicted with green skin, who becomes a political radical and eventually the Wicked Witch of the West.
Son of a Witch, set after Dorothy has clicked her heels back to Kansas and the Wizard has flown off in his balloon darker and not as strong, but if you like Wicked, you won't want to miss it.
Posted by Dorothy Gae Davis.
Incidentally, I identify with the Wicked Witch, not with Dorothy.
Posted by dgdavis at June 5, 2006 09:08 AM