Wicked Play Analysis

Today I am going to write a professional performance response about a musical play I watched called “Wicked”. The play is a musical based on the novel called “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” and is an alternate telling of the classic film known as “The Wizard of Oz” which takes place before Dorothy’s arrival to the Land of Oz and provides a prequel by explaining how Elphaba became the Wicked Witch we have come to know her as and told in her perspective along with the Good Witch of the North, Glinda. I am going to cover my experiences and thoughts before I went to the theater and what it was like going there and my experience watching the play by writing about what opinions did it leave me about certain scenes whether …show more content…
The idea that this is a prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" really interested me to know more about one of my favorite villains of all time who is playing the main character role in this play and the reason she is one of my favorite villains is because she possesses some traits a villain should have and what she had were theatrics and a maniacal nature. The Play also introduces a character named Fiyero who is a prince Elphaba falls in love with that would eventually be known as the Scarecrow which really confused me and made me question where exactly did they get the idea of the Scarecrow actually being involved with the Wicked Witch which made little sense to me since I do remember the original story yet the play added many confusing scenes that made little to no sense which makes it look as if the movie really destroyed what this play was telling on some occasions like how the Wicked Witch seems less heartless in this play than on the film which made me question how did she gain that maniacal nature I mentioned before to begin with especially with the ending the play left off as if it was a cliffhanger that does not seem to have a follow-up considering this is supposedly how the Wicked Witch was supposedly dead before Dorothy arrived to the Land of Oz. The scenes I mentioned may not have impressed me much like many others such as the scenes where both Elphaba and Glinda have this relationship toward one another and what saddens me is knowing that it would eventually end in such a tragedy by faking her death which separated them from one another to stop the fear of the residents of Oz which makes me feel as if the Wicked Witch was forcing her role in