Wicked is the new Good

On the 22nd of September, Wednesday, it was my first time watching a musical. I've been to threatre plays and all, but never a musical. I'm glad I did, even though it was $86.70 (including handling fees) because it was definitely worth.

What was the musical, you might ask? it was 'Wicked.' What can I say, it's the epitome of anything that defines wicked - no! It's beyond any definition because there are no words that can describe the awesomeness of the musical =D. It's a shame that it's over now, but they will be showing at Brisbane at the beginning of next year. As much as I loved it, I'm not sure if I'm willing to travel all the way to Brisbane to watch it again. 

Out of the two Elphabas, we got Jemma Rix who, I thought, did a great job in portraying her character. To be honest, I thought Glinda (played by Lucy Durack) was an annoying character but I love her lines because they're hilarious =D. I admit that her voice was quite good, but I still like Rix's voice better. Also, compared to the original Elphaba from San Francisco, Idina Menzel, I still prefer the Sydney's Elphaba, but I do like the voice of Kristin Chenoweth (Glinda) better than Sydney's Glinda. To be honest, initially I thought that if they actors were to sing, they would just focus solely on singing however; they actually included their acting into their singing. I was quite surprised and amazed by their talent. No wonder 'Wicked' was rated 5 stars. To be honest, I think the voice of James Smith (Boq) was much better than Tim Campbell (Fiyero), but who am I to comment about the casting. AH! What surprised me was to see Bert Newton (Wizard) perform because although I knew he did a lot of acting on television, I never expected him to be singing on stage =S. How shocking. Anyways, I was going to do some research and write about it on my blog, but I'm not bothered, because there's always wikipedia.org =3 just search up 'Wicked (musical)' and you'll find it.

The story itself was such a great plot with a very sad twist. It really did open my eyes to fairy tales - never take things at face value; don't judge a book by it's cover; etc. It was just like a movie I watched about Jack and the beanstalk. It was live action movie with a twist to the story. I thought it was pretty interesting. Man, Kinokuniya was selling two books in one (Wicked and Son of a Witch [sequel]) for $25. I should've bought one for myself =.=! Anyways, back to the musical, I cried when they were singing 'For Good.' It was such a great and sad song! Now, almost every time I listen to it I cry >.<

The architecture of Capitol Theatre is commendable; the interior design looked a lot like Old England if you ask me. I especially liked the lamp posts. Why there are lamp posts inside buildings, I have no idea. I guess they replaced indoor lights =S. The toilet's quite clean too. Why I mentioned that, I have no idea. Moving on, Kelly and I gave our belated presents to Susan as an apology for not going to her birthday dinner. I gave her a Korean drama called 'You're Beautiful' and Kelly gave her a box full of paint samples from Bunnings. When I said 'a box full', I seriously mean 'a box full.' I mean, there were barely any gaps. According to Kelly, there were ~300 samples of them. Why did Kelly get Susan that? Simple. It's what Susan wanted =). Anyways, I had a great night watching a musical with Linh, Kelly and Susan. Thank you Susan, for giving us drinks and the photos, and Linh, for driving us home. Well,  for driving me there as well =3. Oh, we actually met a high school friend that night. Apparently, it was his second time watching it =D and he was generous enough to let us take a photo with his colouful martini glass =). Later on, on Facebook, I found out that a couple more friends also watched it on the same night as us , but we weren't lucky enough to bump into each other. Oh wells =P.

 I told you there was a lamp post inside the building =P. The background looked like a sunset/sunrise =D.

 The green martini glass we borrowed from our friend =D.