[What Is This Feeling?]

Ok fellow Ozians, when was your first time seeing Wicked?
Give the production, city, Elphie, Glinda, date, and time if ya can

Production: Broadway
City: New York
Elphaba: Shoshana Bean
G(a)linda: Megan Hilty
Date: December 23, 2005
Time: 2:00 pm

[London_Mungojerrie]

Production: London
City: London (obvoiusly)
Elphaba: Idina Menzel
Glinda: Helen Dallimore
Other Cast: Full OLC
Date: 29th September 2006
Time: 7:30

[Baker]

Let's make this a little more specific: live and legally. =P

Broadway
New York City
Eden Espinosa
Kristin Chenoweth
I don't remember the exact date, but it was June of 2004
2:00 pm

[star2ballie]

Broadway
NYC
Idina Menzel
Kristin Chenoweth
October, I don't remember, 2003
Don't remember

I've blocked out most of it.

[FlamingGiraffes]

Production: National Tour
City: Oklahoma City
Elphaba: Victoria Matlock
G(a)linda: Christina Decicco
Date: June 7, 2007
Time: 1:30 pm

[What Is This Feeling?]

oh Baker that must have been awesome! Those two I bet were phenomonal together. Was Idina just out that day?

[The Very Angry Woman]

[actor]

Production: West End
City: London
Elphaba: Idina Menzel (a-mazing)
Galinda: Helen Dallimore (eww)
Date: November 25, 2006
Time: 7:30 pm

[i'm_back]

Production: Broadway
City: New York
Elphaba: Eden Espinosa
Glinda: Megan Hilty
Date: Spring Break of 2006
Time: 8:00 pm

and it was so good

[noych]

Production: Chicago
City: Chicago
Elphaba: Dee Roscioli
Galinda: Cristin Boyle
Date: June 22, 2007 (probably the most recent on here)
Time: 8:00 pm

[Baker]

[What Is This Feeling?]

Yes indeed, Eden is a pearl! I saw her my second time.

[reedzee]

Production: Broadway
City: New York
Elphaba: Shoshana Bean
G(a)linda: Megan Hilty
Date: October, 2005 (Can't remember exact date, but it was sometime around Canadian Thanksgiving)
Time: 8:00 pm

[What Is This Feeling?]

Sweet! Weren't they such a wonderful pair?

[wicked_boy]

London
Idina and Annaleene and Oliver as Fiyero.
29th Dec, matinee, Idina's 3rd to last show.

I got a talk with Katie, Martin and some ensemble member at the end because it was a special stagecoach performance.

[Set_Buildin_Dad]

Took the whole family to see wicked on may 19th 2007 in LA

Elphaba: Eden Espinosa
Glinda: Megan Hilty

They were really great together!

Found this forum (MdN) trying to learn more about their careers so that we could see more of their performances.

[staticoranges]

Production: LA
City: LA
Elphaba: Eden Espinosa
G(a)linda: Megan Hilty
Date: Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Time: 8:00 pm

(to anybody who saw Shoshana and Megan, I am extremely jealous. I stayed after and got Megan, Eden, Jenna, and Kristoffer's autographs and pictures)

[BenjaminBarker]

Production/City: London
Elphaba: Idina Menzel
Galinda: Helen Dallimore
Date: 30/12/07
Time: 7.30pm

Since then I've seen it 4 more times, and I've got tickets for 3 more performances later this summer - I'm a Wicked junkie!

PS I got to meet Idina, Helen, Miriam Margolyse, Nigel Planer and Adam Garcia after the show the first time - brilliant evening!

[Elfie Lou]

Production:West End
City: London
Elphaba: Idina Menzel
Galinda: Helen Dallimore
Fiyero: Adam Garcia
Date: November 1, 2006( I think)
Time: 2:00pm (I think)

[London_Mungojerrie]

[wicked_boy]

[London_Mungojerrie]

[Sweeney Hyde]

[quote="What Is This Feeling?"]Ok fellow Ozians, when was your first time seeing Wicked?
Give the production, city, Elphie, Glinda, date, and time if ya can

Production: Broadway
City: New York City
Elphaba: Idina Menzel
G(a)linda: Jennifer Laura Thompson
WIZARD: George Hearn (MADE THE WHOLE THING SO MUCH MORE WORTH IT)
Date: August 18, 2004 (I only know this because I keep all my ticket stubs from every event I got too (minus films))
Time: 8:00PM

[*BroadwayLights*]

Production: Broadway
City: New York City
Elphaba: Lisa Brescia (Standby for Julia Murney- she was phenominal!))
G(a)linda: Kendra Kassebaum
Wizard: David Garrison
Date: April 11, 2007
Time: 2:00 pm

[*__ElphieTheWitch__*]

City: LA
Elphie: Eden Espinosa
Glinda: Megan Hilty
Date: April 18
Time: 8:00 p.m.

[wicked_boy]

Ignore me, I'm chatting poop.

[Mistress]

Date: Dec. 10, 2006

Where: Toronto, Canon Theatre, 7th row from the front

Who: Elphaba: Shoshana Bean
Glinda/Galinda: Megan Hilty

It was totally awsome!

[What Is This Feeling?]

The girls who I saw, I love them so so so so much! Weren't they just a wonderful pair?

[reedzee]

The both times I've seen Wicked, Shoshana Bean and Megan Hilty were the leads. They really were excellent, and had a great chemistry onstage.

[What Is This Feeling?]

Lol, Shoshana is the goofiest / most histarical Elphie. I think her performance is more human. The first act sh is so goofy and really very oral and facial. I adore her facial expressions. Although her change from act 1 to act to 2, really wasnt that different.
My fave Sho bean moment:

if I defrenify youuuuuuu

*turns around*

Sho: And ofcourse thats not important to me!

*Turns around*
Sho: Alright , why not?

*snorts*

Sho: I'll replyyyyyyyyyy oh wat a pair will be..

hhaaha full on snort. So beautiful and very human. Voice is great and isn't vocally allo over.

Hilty was a delight too.

[Luc]

Whoever started this is making it sound like Phantom... "Remember your first time."

CITY: New York
ELPHABA: Eden Espinosa <3
GLINDA: Kate Reinders <3 <3
DATE: Friday, September 22nd, 2006
TIME: 8:00 pm (well, it was 8:04:43, but... yeah. I remember it very clearly.... I had been staring at my watch since 8:00. Not even kidding. So I remember the exact time when the lights went down.... ooh, I'm getting goosebumps.)

[Quique]

Haven't seen it yet, but will on the evening of July 5th in L.A. I believe I'm sitting 4th row orchestra.

[musicalmaniac396]

To staticoranges, I am extremely jealous that you got Kristoffer Cusick's autograph! He is amazing! I saw him my first time and Derrick Williams the second and I thought Kristoffer was waaaaaaaaaay better!

The First time I saw Wicked:

City: Chicago
Elphaba:Kristy Cates (amazing)
G(a)linda: Stacie Morgain Lewis (awesome)
Fiyero: Kristoffer Cusick (He is soooooooo amazing!!!!!)
Wizard:Gene Weygandt (He was sooo good!)
Dr.Dillamond: Timothy Britten Parker (He is so awesome!)
Date:Sunday May 7,2006
Time: 2:00 P.M.
Seating: Dead center in first row! (Won the lottery!!!)
(Got all this info from the playbill and my ticket!)

I have more than 2 playbills because my friend gave me one from when she went! She got to see Ana Gasteyer!

[wickedboy]

Production: Chicago
City: Chicago (obviously)
Elphaba: Ana Gayster
G(a)linda: Kate Reinders
Date: 6 January, 2006
Time: 7:30pm

Honestly the first time I saw the show was anticlimactic, Ana capped out during Defying Gravity and didn't really seem to go for it!
I had Kristopher as Fiyero though, and he was just amazing!

[TR_Wolf]

Production: London West End
City: London
Elphaba: Shona White
Glinda: Helen Dallimore
Date: February 21st 2007
Time: 2:30pm

[shakalakababy]

Production/City:San Francisco
Elphaba: Either Stephanie J. Block or Eden Espinosa, i don't really know.
Galinda: Kendra Kassebaum
Date: summer 05
Time: 8pm

[wicked_boy]

[EarlCarpenterFan]

Production: West End
City: London
Elphaba: Kerry Ellis (even though I'd heard she was on holiday )
G(a)linda: Helen Dallimore
Date: Wednesday 11th April 2007
Time: 2.30pm

[DisneyFanKL]

Chicago
September 29, 2007
7:30 PM
Kristy Cates
Stacie Morgan Lewis

[ClaraNaccarelli]

Production: Broadway
City: New York
Elphaba: Idina Menzel
G(a)linda: Laura Bell Bundy
Date: February 18, 2004
Time: 8:00 pm

It was the full OBC except for Laura as Glinda.

[outdamnwench]

[shakalakababy]

[wicked_boy]

[Elphie777]

Production: Tour (I guess:))
City: Lansing
Elphie:Coleen Sexten
G(a)linda: Christina DeCicco
Date: July 21st, 2007
Time: 2:00 pm

I was supposed to see Victoria Matlock, but the Standby played instead....Coleen was OK, but not what I was expecting to see.

[theg8whiteway]

Tour - August 28, 2007

[shakalakababy]

[The_Megster]

[Witches of Oz]

Production: National Tour
City: Philadelphia
Elphaba: Victoria Matlock (Loved her! she gave me goosebumps when she sang Defying Gravity!)
G(a)linda: Christina Decicco
Date: August 5, 2007
Time: 6:30 pm

IT was so exciting! When we came out of the Academy of Music, we came out the side entrance but me and my friend, who saw it with me, wanted to get souvenirs, so we went around to the front. We both got shirts that said I heart Oz on them! Then we went around to the side where the stage door was and Cliffton Hall (Fiyero) and his wife Deedee Magno Hall (Nessarose) were signing autographs. We got their autographs and waited for a lillte bit and ended up getting Victoria Matlock's autograph! Christina walked by, but she didn't stop. I was so excited!

[Elphie777]

[wicked_boy]

[DefyingGravityThroughLife]

Production: Los Angeles
City: Los Angeles
Elphaba: Julie Reiber (s/b)
G(a)linda: Emily Rozek (s/b)
Date: June 27th, 2007
Time 8:00 pm

[lt.shaw]

Production: National Tour
City: Philadelphia
Elphaba: Victoria Matlock
G(a)linda: Christina Decicco
Date: August 7, 2007
Time: 7:30 pm

[^Defying_Gravity^]

[Lennie]

Production: Broadway
City: New York
Elphaba: Julia Murney
G(a)linda: Kendra Kassebaum
Date: June 9, 2007
Time: 7:30 pm

Twice that week lol

[jelliclesongs]

Production: London
City: London
Elphaba: Idina Menzel
G(a)linda: Helen Dallimore
Date: December 18, 2006
Time: 7:30pm

[Catherine]

Production: West End
City: London
Elphaba: Kerry Ellis
G(a)linda: Dianne Pilkington
Date: August 18, 2007
Time: 2.30 pm
And I'm going to add this because I feel like bragging:
Seats: Row B, seat 26 (right in the middle).

The performance was amazing... true I did have to look up a little but it was stunning, Kerry Ellis is a powehouse. I thougherly enjoyed it. =]

[wicked_boy]

Has anyone saw Sarah Earnshaw as Glinda? What did you think of her?

Also, I saw Annalene as Glinda, I thought she had an amazing voice, but was lacking the "ditzy blonde" side of Glinda. Although she played Glinda amazingly in act 2.

[bwayfan07]

I first saw it in LA
on May 19th, 2007
Elphaba-Eden Espinosa
Galinda-Megan Hilty

it was phenomically unbelievable!
im actually going again this december!

[~Jenn H~]

Production: National Tour
City: DFW, TX
Elphaba - Stephanie J. Block
G(a)linda – Kendra Kassebaum
Fiyero - Derrick Williams
Nessarose - Jenna Leigh Green
Morrible - Carol Kane
The Wizard - David Garrison
Boq – Logan Lipton
Doctor Dillamond - Timothy Britten Parker
Date: October '05

[ActingDude17]

Production: Broadway
City: New York City
Elphaba: Stephanie J. Block
G(a)linda: Annaleigh Ashford
Date: January 20th, 2008
Time: 3:00 PM

One thing that was special about this show was that it was Carole Shelley's last.

SJB was absolutely amazing.

[BroadwayObssessed]

Production: Chicago
City:...Chicago
Elphaba:Dee Roscioli
Glinda: Erin Mackey
Date: January 20, 2008 ^_^
Time: 2:00

[doggybubbles]

Date: March 31st, 2007
Production: Broadway
City: New York
Elphaba: Julia
Glinda: Kendra
Time: 2:00
Seats: Front row center (lottery)

[Mistress]

[lckysvn777]

Production: Broadway
City: New York
Elphaba: Stephanie J. Block
G(a)linda: Annaleigh Ashford
Date: January 5, 2008
Time: 8:00 pm

[Felix Felicis]

Production: West End
City: London
Elphaba: Shona White
G(a)linda: Helen Dallimore
Date: July 14th, 2007
Time: 2:30 pm

[MiLeZ]

[erinmylungs]

City: New York City
Year: 2006
Date: I can't remember. It was a few days before Christmas
Elphaba: Eden Espinosa, I think
Galinda: not sure.
Time: It was an evening show.

[ElphabaThroppp]

Production: National Tour
City: Boston
Elphaba: Victoria Matlock
G(a)linda: Christina DeCicco
Date: October 30th
Time: 7:00 PM

=)

[Not Dead Yet]

I would have liked to forget this ever happened, but...

Production: National Tour
City: Miami
Elphaba: Victoria Matlock (blech)
G(a)linda: Christina DeCicco (fab)
Date: March 25? or 15? who cares... 2007
Time: 8:00 pm

[Kerry_ROCKS!]

First Night of the previews in London!! (having watched it countless times by uh.........other somewhat illegal methods.adn listened to it)
Idina was awesome!!
and i still get the same rush everytime i see it!

[lynettew84]

Production: Los Angeles
City: Hollywood
Elphaba: Teal Wicks
G(a)linda: Megan Hilty
Date: February 2, 2008
Time: 2:00 pm

[jarrod001]

Production: Broadway
City: New York
Elphaba: Idina Menzel
Glinda: Jennifer Laura Thompson
Date: September 22, 2004
Time: 2:00 p.m.

Production: Broadway
City: New York
Elphaba: Eden Espinosa
Glinda: Kate Reinders (oh jesus)
Date: September 23, 2006
Time: 2:00 p.m.

Production: Tour
City: Baltimore
Elphaba: Victoria Matlock
Glinda: Christina DeCicco
Date: February 8, 2007
Time: 8:00 p.m.

Production: Tour
City: Baltimore
Elphaba: Victoria Matlock
Glinda: Christina DeCicco
Date: February 9th, 2007
Time: 8:00 p.m.

Production: Tour
City: Baltimore
Elphaba: Victoria Matlock
Glinda: Christina DeCicco
Date: February 18, 2007
Time: 1:00 p.m.

I got bored and put them all...

[Theaterfan101]

this title make me think
"thats what she said"

[ChorusKidx3]

The very first time I saw Wicked was with the Original Broadway cast. Carole Shelley was not preforming and her understudy filled in. Idina and Kristen...I fell in love with. <333

[WickedWhatAShow]

Production: London
City: London
Elphaba: The wonderful Kerry Ellis!
Glinda: The not so wonderful Helen Dallimore!
Date: 20th June 2007
Time: 7:30
I Loved Every Minute! x

[musicalsequallove]

Production: Tour
City: Toronto
Elphaba: Shoshana Bean
Glinda: Megan Hilty
Date: October 13, 2006
Time: 8:00

It was amazing.

[actor]

[Felix Felicis]

[WickedElphie5808]

I saw Wicked for the first time in St.Louis. This was the touring cast.

Elphaba: CARMEN CUSACK
Glinda: Katie Clarke
Fiyero: Cliffton Hall

[actor]

[Felix Felicis]

[actor]

Dianne Pilkington is the best Glinda to date.

[mastachen]

[ActingDude17]

[Felix Felicis]

[DaddyDiesel]

OrI am sure it woule signal somthing crazy like dogs and cats getting married or paula abdul managing not to look drugged up on an episode of AI.

My first and only time I went was when I surprised my little sister with 3rd row center tickets before she moved to alaska for a year..

Cast:
Kendra kassebaum
Victoria Matlock
Sebastian arcelus

Those are the main three I can think of.

[bare24601!]

Production: Broadway
City: New York City
Elphaba: Idina Menzel
Glinda: Kirsten Chenoweth
Other Cast: Full OBC
Date: I don't remember
Time: I don't remember

My mother drove my whole family and our next door neighbors (in the same car) out to see it. The trip there was hell, never again will I drive to New York City with my restless family and my neighbors. I remember very clearly that on the way there, I was listening to the Wicked recording and I was convinced that there was something going on between Glinda and Elphaba (romantic tension-wise). After we saw the show, my neighbor's mom got mad at me for whatever reason and made me take off my shoes and walk through the New York City Subway barefoot. I probably contracted all kinds of lovely diseases thanks to that. And thus concludes my one and only Wicked experience. -shrug-

[wicked_boy]

Why did you have to take your shoes off?

[bare24601!]

Because I was rude to my neighbor's daughter and I guess she figured that was the best punishment. Haha, I don't know, but in any case it was a disgusting experience that I still think of to this day when I walk through New York's subway.

[wicked_boy]

And your parent's let her make you walk around without any shoes????

That really doesn't make sense to me...

[bare24601!]

Our chaperones for the city were my mother and my neighbor's mother. So basically, while my mother was picking up my little sister from our uncle's house (she was too young to see Wicked), my neighbor's mother was taking us somewhere or other that required us going to the subway. Hence her making me take off my shoes and go barefoot.
:-&
'Twas gross.

[flyingsoloandfree]

Date: January 4th, 2008
Place: St. Louis Missouri

Elphaba: Carmen Cusack
Glinda: Katie Rose Clarke
Fiyero: Cliffton Hall
Madame Morrible: Alma Cuervo
Wizard: Lee Wilkof
Nessa: Deedee Magno Hall
Boq: Brad Weinstock

[nabla]

Is on the 29th! Exciting for me! (It's only a preview performance but i'm sure i'll still enjoy it)

[dancing_through_life]

I will let you know on Monday or Tuesday for the cast, but this will be my first time seeing Wicked! The date is June 22nd at 2:00 P.M. in Buffalo

[striped_mark_scarf]

Toronto 2006 at the Canon Theatre.
I loved every minute, but was completely mesmerized by the amazing set so the singing didn't get as much attention as it should have until I bought the cd

[dancing_through_life]

Production: National Tour
City: Buffalo NY
Elphaba: Carmen Cusack, but we had the understudy she was Donna Vivino
Glinda: Katie Rose Clarke, but we had the understudy she was Melissa Bohon
Fiyero: Tom Flynn, but we had a understudy he was Blake Whyte
Boq: Brad Weinstock
Date: June 22nd 2008
Time: 2:00 P.M.

[littlemisstheatregirl]

Production: National Tour
City: Baltimore, MD at the Hippodrome
Elphaba: Victoria Matlock
G(a)linda: Christina Decicco
Date: January 2007
Time: 8 pm

I loved every second of it.

[Echo]

Production: West End
City: London
Elphaba: Kerry Ellis
Glinda: Dianne Pilkington
Date: Late April, 2008
Time: Evening

I'm going to be honest here, the first time heard the Wicked cast recording, I hated it. I'd read and loved the novel, and I was expecting something dark and brooding (if a little all over the place thematically,) and by contrast, the musical seemed so light and happy and perky. It didn't fit the vision in my head, and I was disappointed.

It started to grow on me, though. For all its lack of technical sophistication, it gradually began appealing more and more to me once I accepted that it was different from the novel and let go of my preconceived ideas about what it should have been.

I was planning a trip to London to visit family, and one of my friends came along. When I'm there I usually see a couple of shows (may as well, right?) and since my friend is a big Wicked fan and I liked it by that point, we decided to go see it with my folks.

I wasn't expecting anything amazing, just a fun evening out. As we were getting ready, my friend asked me if I had any tissues with me. I kind of laughed at her and said, "It's Wicked. I'm not going to cry!"

I ended up eating my words on that, and in fact I really enjoyed the production. Somehow seeing it on stage I got sucked into the world of the show in a way I never had just listening to the music, and it held me spellbound (har har.) I have to admit that in spite of my assurance I wouldn't cry, I got misty-eyed twice: when Elphaba and Fiyero are reunited after her "death," and of all the weird places to get teary, the softer "No one mourns the wicked" after the "But because I knew you..." in the Finale. (My friend kindly provided me with a tissue and did not say "I told you so" a single time even though I deserved it.)

I absolutely loved this show-- I was actually surprised by how much I did, as I didn't expect to more than like it. I'd definitely see it again someday given the opportunity.

[nabla]

AGGG, i just got home from my first time, I'm on such a theatre high! lol
(Australia 2008 production)

[maggiedefyinggravity]

Production: Chicago
in Chicago
Date: May 5 (?), 2008
Elphaba: Dee Roscoli
G(a)linda: Kate Farhner
Time: evening