Wicked

Like omg guess what I saw last night?
WICKED.
We drove for like an hour up to San Fran, went to dinner across the street from the theater, and then went and saw it and it was the single most amazing thing I think I have ever seen in my entire life oh my god I loved it so much. I cried SIX TIMES. Two or three of which were during the song 'Defying Gravity', which is actually a happy song, but it was so beautiful I cried. Teal Wicks was amazing as Elphaba and I was sososososoooo glad it was her and not the Standby... Who probably would have been great but she just blew me away. And on top of it all we were in row freaking B. Which is like the second row. And we were in the middle. Lenny got the best seat, even though she'd seen it before, but we had the three middle-est seats on the right side of the second row and it was amazing. We were so close I could see the mics on the actors' foreheads, almost got hit by a bubble from one of the bubble blowers on Glinda's magic bubble thing. :]

And now a little mini-rant on each of the reasons I cried. The following may contain spoilers, but I'd appreciate it if you'd read it anyways... not that anybody does :/

So the first time I got teary was during this song called 'I'm Not That Girl'... So basically, Fiyero (who was HOT, but not my type :P) and Glinda were like all lovey (this is like in college beeteedoubleyoo) and Fiyero's popular and like a prince and everybody likes him and same with Glinda and they're both pretty and seem kinda shallow. So Fiyero's all really nice to Elphaba, this other girl (who later becomes the wicked witch of the west) at this one point and they obviously like each other a lot and they're kinda awkward and it's like awwwwww but then Fiyero goes off to save this cub he and Elphaba rescued and so Elphie's kinda left there alone thinking about omg I like this guy but he's wonderful and I'm green (like literally) and why the heck would he ever love me when he's got Glinda the amazingly beautiful and loved and she things this song that almost made me cry... Explaination after lyrics:

Hands touch, eyes meet
Sudden silence, sudden heat
Hearts leap in a giddy whirl
He could be that boy
But I'm not that girl:

Don't dream too far
Don't lose sight of who you are
Don't remember that rush of joy
He could be that boy
I'm not that girl

Ev'ry so often we long to steal
To the land of what-might-have-been
But that doesn't soften the ache we feel
When reality sets back in

Blithe smile, lithe limb
She who's winsome, she wins him
Gold hair with a gentle curl
That's the girl he chose
And Heaven knows
I'm not that girl:

Don't wish, don't start
Wishing only wounds the heart
I wasn't born for the rose and the pearl
There's a girl I know
He loves her so
I'm not that girl

The middle-endish part especially affected me where it describes this perfect girl and is like 'thats the girl he chose, and heaven knows, I'm not that girl'. Because that's kinda how I feel about life and stuff. CS is like Fiyero, hot and popular, and so is the person he likes (I'm pretty sure of it) , so she's like Glinda... And then I feel like Elphaba a lot of the time. I'm just kind of there at first... We haven't gotten to the later part where it's like omfg i lub joo more than the shallowish popular girl. :/ I hope that happens one day... So when Elphaba sang this song, I could barely see from the welling tears, because it reminded me so much of my life... so when Glinda sang a reprise of it when suddenly she wasn't that girl and Elphie got the hottie, I was definitely smiling. :]

And then of course defying gravity. I thought she was going to die in the part right before it, so that had me a little sniffly, but then that dried by about halfway through. And then there's an incredibly epic part where guards storm in looking to capture Elphie but grab Glinda instead cause elhpie was hiding in the shadows (secretly getting on a platform/harness thing for hte next part) and then she sing something like 'it's not her you want, it's me... it's meeeee!' and then my favorite part ever came and I had tears streaming down like rain... I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it!

So if you care to find me
Look to the western sky!
As someone told me lately:
"Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!"
And if I'm flying solo,
At least I'm flying free.
To those who'd ground me,
Take a message back from me:
Tell them how I am
Defying gravity!
I'm flying high,
Defying gravity!
And soon I'll match them in renown.
And nobody in, all of Oz.
No Wizard that there is or was.
Is ever gonna bring me down!

I FREAKING LOVE THAT PART. And Elphaba rises up on a platform or something and she's got this huge cape thingy and the lighting and the background music and everything is SO FREAKING EPIC describing it's giving me wave after wave of goosebumps.... And then it was intermission.

I honestly don't quite remember the crying times after that... I think I got teary when Elphie and Fiyero were all lovey cause it was so sweet and then he 'died' and I definitely cried as soon as the first word of 'For Good' was sung, cause that's just the most beautiful song I think I've ever heard... and the saddest. :( But still amazing! And maybe I teared up when they melted ElphabaAnd then at the end... HUGE MEGA SPOILER ALERT BTW I'D STOP READING NOW UNLESS YOU'VE SEEN IT OR DON'T CARE. When Elphie and Fiyero were actually alive and not dead and ahhhh ran off together to be all <3>

And I just read something online that said that last night was the first night since Februrary that there hadn't been ANY understudies or stand-ins for any of the parts. :] Teal Wicks was definitely amazing and I would have thrown a fit if it wasn't her as Elphie. And then I would have come to see it again anyways in hopes of seeing her. :D Maybe it was because last night was LGBT night... At least, that's what some guy Swabby works with told him at the restaurant... Swabby came back and told us and was like 'and they're in row y or something' and we asked if he told them where we were and he was like 'yeah. They're jealous.' and we were like :P YAY.

Wow I think I'm all Wickeded out as far as retelling the story... :3 Weeeeelll until next time, I guess.

Defy gravity.

-Izzy