Wicked Musical Analysis

Wicked: A “Wonderful” Musical! On March 17th, 2017 I saw a phenomenal musical called Wicked. The theatre it was playing in was the insert theatre in London name here in London, England. The musical was extremely touching and brought the audience to tears because of the magnificent acting and beautiful voices. The actors hooked the audience from the first line of the show and kept them in their grasp until the final bows.

Wicked is set in the land of Oz and is about two girls in university who despise each other at first, but soon learn from each other and become best friends. Elphaba is a social outcast because she was born with an unusual trait that terrifies everyone she comes across, green skin. Glinda is extremely preppy and popular, but she doesn’t know how to react calmly when she doesn’t get her way. Throughout the musical, Elphaba gets a chance to prove herself to the Wizard of Oz, but after seeing him for who he truly is she rejects him and becomes an enemy to the entire land. At the end, Elphaba fakes her death and runs off with her love interest, Fiyero. However, Glinda does not know she is still alive and remains to be a public figure to Oz.

The lead of the musical is named Willemijn Verkaik and portrayed Elphaba perfectly to the point where it was almost
In the university scene the costumes were dull and plain, but in the Emerald City scenes the costumes were glistening with green and made the audiences eyes pop. Each costume had an individual personality. Since Elphaba is the Wicked Witch of the West, her costume was black and dull at first. However, as the story progressed it was still black, but there was a bit of green and purple fabric added to it to enhance her character. To match her bubbly personality, Glinda was always wearing a bright blue or pink dress with some sequins attached to it. Glinda was the only character that didn’t have over 3 layers for a