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Wicked: The Musical

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Wicked was the musical I attended for this assignment. It is a beautiful show about learning and friendship, it is a story from the viewpoint of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. This musical was presented by the traveling broadway performers in Milwaukee; the musical started with Elphaba living life as a social outcast and ends up being able to fly and be who she really is. Elphaba then meets her roommate, Glinda the Good, and she is self-absorbed, gets whatever she wants. With this, becomes a friendly rival that turns into a long lasting friendship. Ultimately, much of this musical's greatness is about the joys and sorrows of friendship and how these relationships change us for the better. The dancing in this over two hour musical is …show more content…

This brings me to my next point, once they were paired up as roommates they write a letter to their families to explain their situation. This song is more of an angry or upset song, they are discussing their loathing for each other. This dance starts off with Glinda on the left side in front of the stage and Elphaba on the right side in the front of the stage, this shows right away that because they are so drastically apart from each other on the stage that they do not like each other. Starting off far away from each other was part of the great choreography for this song, if they were friendly with each other it would make sense for them to start closer together. They then run angrily to each other aggressively making the point of loathing. It carries on by a chorus of extra dancers joining them on the stage, since they agree with Glinda's way of thinking they stay with her throughout the whole song, following her across the stage. The stage is used well in this performance, the main characters normally stick to the front while the extras march around the back, still remain on Glinda’s side of the stage. This was well done because it emphasized the point that Glinda was trying to make, even if it was not the correct one. In this everyone dances with more angular motions, they march around a lot and the use their facial expressions also showed anger, …show more content…

It starts off at a slower tempo and gains speed later on. In this piece there is not much dancing, but the amount of dancing correlated well with the storyline at the time and the song. It is a freeing song, while Elphaba sings this song her arms are wide open and there are major level changes from her being on the ground to being in the air on a broomstick, she is finally becoming free. On the sage in the beginning of the song, are the two main characters: Glinda and Elphaba. Later in the song more dancers join them on the stage to capture Glinda while Elphaba is in the air. The costumes are emphasized in this piece and help with the overall message of it. Elphaba feels trapped, she is in a long black dress while Glinda's is short and bright. These costumes help the setting of this scene because it's about

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