Blog Posts For Tag: Wicked

Wicked the Musical has done more than simply wow audiences; it has been a huge break for many of its principle actors and actresses, especially those who originated the roles. Norbert Leo Butz is one of those actors. He portrayed Fiyero in the original production.

The wonderful world of entertainment continues to cross pollinate. Ideas and stories flow freely from one form to another, from the printed word to stage or the screen, from a stage to television, from any place where an audience can be found to another. This almost incestuous process has its critics, but it cannot be denied. Recently one of the rarest paths of this creative transference has been announced.

When I was a child it seemed like kids were only allowed to venture as far in comedy and conflict as wobbly shopping carts and being grounded without television. Today these are still realities in children’s lives, but their worlds have expanded far beyond and conflicts that were once abstract thoughts covered in dressed up parables have become a issues discussed directly without cutzy-ing it up so parents feel safe.

Perhaps the most popular musical of the times is story not about a far away made up place like Oz or a biography of a pop group from the ‘60s, but of the theater of war in the Pacific in World War II.