Wicked

Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years. Get your Wicked tickets today.

WICKED is the untold story of the witches of Oz. It features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman ("My So Called Life," "Once And Again" and "thirtysomething") Wicked is based on the best selling novel by Gregory Maguire. With musical staging by Wayne Cilento (Tony Award winner from Aida, The Who's Tommy, How To Succeed...), WICKED tickets directed by 2003 and 2004 Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Assassins, Take Me Out, Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune).

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ (Music and Lyrics) has contributed music and/or lyrics to Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show, The Baker's Wife, Working (which he also adapted and directed), Personals, Rags and Children of Eden. For films, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the scores for the Disney animated features Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame and wrote the songs for the DreamWorks animated feature The Prince of Egypt. He has released two CDs of new songs entitled Reluctant Pilgrim and Uncharted Territory available at www.stephenschwartz.com. Order Wicked tickets securely online. Mr. Schwartz is also the artistic director of the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshops and a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. Awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and a tiny handful of tennis trophies.


WINNIE HOLZMAN (Book). For television: created “My So-Called Life” (Emmy nomination). Also wrote for “thirtysomething” (WGA Award nomination) and executive produced (again with Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick) “Once and Again” starring Sela Ward. For theatre: Birds of Paradise (with composer David Evans). For features: ‘Til There Was You. Ms. Holzman can be seen in Jerry Maguire (if you look really close.) She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Paul Dooley.

JOE MANTELLO (Director). Directing credits include Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living, Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera, The Vagina Monologues, bash, Another American: Asking and Telling, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Proposals, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi, Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks, Blue Window, God’s Heart, The Santaland Diaries, Lillian, Snakebit, Three Hotels, Imagining Brad and Fat Men in Skirts. Mr. Mantello also directed the film Love! Valour! Compassion!. As an actor he appeared in Angels in America (Tony nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz. Mr. Mantello is the recipient of the Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout.

WAYNE CILENTO (Musical Staging). Broadway: Aida; The Who’s Tommy (Tony, Drama Desk, Astaire awards); How to Succeed…(Tony nom.); Dream: The Johnny Mercer Musical (director and choreographer - Tony nom., Best Choreography); Jerry’s Girls; Baby (Tony nom.). West End: The Who’s Tommy (Olivier nom.). Wicked Other credits: Off-Broadway’s A Hot Minute and Angry Housewives; the national tour of Spirit (director and choreographer); …Forum at La Jolla (San Diego Drama Critics and Drama-Logue awards). Wicked tickets on sale now. Order online. Mr. Cilento’s credits as a performer include A Chorus Line (Mike, original cast), The Act, Seesaw, Perfectly Frank, Irene, Big Deal, Rachel Lily Rosenblum and his Tony-nominated performance in Bob Fosse’s Dancin’. His career as a choreographer was launched by his Wicked theater tickets work in over 100 national commercials. Mr. Cilento has done musical staging for Liza Minnelli, Barry Manilow, Chita Rivera, Billy Joel, Donna Summer and Pete Townshend.

EUGENE LEE (Scenic Designer) has been Resident Designer at Trinity Rep since 1967. He has a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Wicked Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Yale Drama School, and an honorary Ph.D from both DePaul University and Rhode Island College. Mr. Lee has won three Tony Awards, for Leonard Bernstein's Candide, Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Wicked tickets. He was also nominated for a Tony for his work on Ragtime. Wicked He is the production designer for "Saturday Night Live" on NBC. Other New York theater includes: Slaveship, Alice in Wonderland, The Normal Heart, Agnes of God, Grandchild of Kings and Uncle Vanya. Film credits include Easy Money, Francis Ford Coppola's Hammett, John Huston's Mr. North, and Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street. Recent projects include Wicked ticket Stephen Sondheim's Bounce at the Kennedy Center. An adjunct professor at Brown University, he lives in Providence with his wife Brooke and son Teddy.

SUSAN HILFERTY (Costume Designer) has designed over 200 productions for theaters across America from Broadway to the Bay Area, and internationally from London to South Africa. She has worked with such directors as Athol Fugard, Robert Falls, Robert Woodruff, JoAnne Akalaitis, the late Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Des McAnuff, Sharon Ott, David Petrarca, Richard Nelson, Chris Ashley, David Warren, Marion McClinton, Laurie Anderson, Tony Kushner, Carole Rothman, Mark Linn-Baker, Garry Hynes, David Jones and Emily Mann. Recent Wicked ticket work includes: Assassins, Into the Woods, Wicked James Lapine's Fran's Bed, Kander and Ebb's The Visit, Jitney, Dirty Blonde, In the Penal Colony, Helen, My Life With Albertine, Franny's Way, and Sorrows and Rejoicings. She designs for opera, film, TV, dance and is chair of the Department of Design for Stage and Film at NYU Tisch. Her many awards include 2002 Tony and Drama Desk nominations and a Hewes Award for Into the Woods, and 2004 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Wicked tickets.

KENNETH POSNER (Lighting Designer). Broadway: Hairspray (Tony nomination); Imaginary Friends; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle noms.); Swing!; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; The Goat; Uncle Vanya; Side Man (Lortel Award); The Lion in Winter; Little Me; A View From the Bridge (Drama Desk nom.); The Last Night of Ballyhoo; The Little Foxes and The Rose Tattoo. Off-Broadway: The Wild Party (Lortel Award, Drama Desk and Outer Circle Critics noms.); Buy Wicked tickets The Play About the Baby; tick, tick... BOOM!; The Waverly Gallery; Pride's Crossing (Lortel Award); As Bees In Honey Drown; Cowgirls; The Food Chain; subUrbia; and numerous productions for Playwrights Horizons, the Public, MTC, Second Stage, the Vineyard and Classic Stage Company. Opera credits include designs for the New York City Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Recipent of the OBIE for sustained excellence in lighting design.

TONY MEOLA (Sound Designer). Broadway shows include Man of La Mancha, Sweet Smell of Success, The Wild Party, Copenhagen, Kiss Me, Kate, Footloose, High Society, The Lion King (Drama Desk Award), The Sound of Music, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Juan Darien, A Christmas Carol (MSG), Steel Pier, Forum, Wicked The King and I, Company, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Moon Over Buffalo, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Face Value, Guys and Dolls, A Month in the Country, Picnic, Five Guys Named Moe, She Loves Me, Whorehouse Goes Public, The Red Shoes, Anything Goes, A Grand Night for Singing Wicked. London’s West End: Kiss Me, Kate, The Lion King, Smokey Joe’s Café and Anything Goes. International work includes: Driving Miss Daisy, Les Misérables, Mozart!, Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame. Wicked Off Broadway includes Love, Janis, A New Brain, Violet, Durang, Durang and One Man Band. Tony is a graduate of Ithaca College’s Department of Theatre Arts.

ELAINE J. McCARTHY (Projection Designer). Recent designs include: Broadway: Urban Cowboy (consultant), Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods, Judgement at Nuremberg, The Green Bird. Off-Broadway: The Thing About Men, Speaking In Tongues, Underneath the Lintel, Red Frogs: a slapstick mirror for the summer purgatorio, The It Girl, Boys Don’t Wear Lipstick, Goodbye My Friduchita. Regional: Cobb, Songs From the Tall Grass, Eleanor, Blue Man Group: Tubes (Chicago). National Wicked tours: Forgiveness (Chen Shi Zheng), Spirit (Back Row). Opera: Dead Man Walking, War and Peace (Kirov and Metropolitan Opera), Tan Dun’s The Gate, Peter Sellar’s The Peony Pavilion. Dance: Remote (White Oak), Philip Glass and Susan Marshall’s Les Enfants Terribles.

TOM WATSON (Wig and Hair Designer) is head of the wig department at the Metropolitan Opera. He designs Wicked hair and wigs for many theatres including Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre St. Louis, New York Theatre Workshop and the Goodman in Chicago. Wicked tickets he has also designed wigs for the Broadway productions of Dirty Blonde, Jane Eyre, Into the Woods and Amour. This season, his work can be seen in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Violet Hour and Anna in the Tropics.

STEPHEN OREMUS (Music Supervisor) music directed/arranged/orchestrated Avenue Q on Broadway and Jonathan Larson's tick.tick.BOOM! (Assoc. Producer, Original Cast Recording) Off-Broadway, the national tour, and in Seoul, Korea. He was vocal arranger and music supervisor for Signed, Sealed, Delivered - The Music of Stevie Wonder (w/ Chaka Khan, Melissa Manchester, and Peabo Bryson) at the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas. He served as music director for Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party at Manhattan Theatre Club (original cast recording) and was music director of the national tour of Rent. Order Wicked tickets for all shows. Regionally: Into the Woods (Ordway); Dorian (World Premiere, Goodspeed); A Little Night Music; Jesus Christ Superstar (w/ Billy Porter and Emily Skinner); Nite Club Confidential (w/ Barbara Eden); The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular in Myrtle Beach and Nashville.Wicked tickets are on sale now. Order online. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston.

WILLIAM DAVID BROHN (Orchestrations) received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Ragtime. He’s been heard globally for his work on Miss Saigon, The Secret Garden, Show Boat, Crazy For You and Carousel; in London’s West End with Oliver!, The Witches of Eastwick, My Fair Lady and South Pacific; and recently in New York with Sweet Smell of Success, A Man of No Importance and Oklahoma!. Wicked Musical Tickets has provided arrangements for Marilyn Horne, James Galway, Placido Domingo and for Joshua Bell’s recent recording on Sony Classical of Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra.

ALEX LACAMOIRE (Music Director/Music Arrangements) has served as music director and arranger/orchestrator for Bat Boy: The Musical (Off-Broadway) and the 2001 tour of Godspell (DRG Records). After working with Stephen Schwartz on regional productions of Working (Long Wharf) and Pippin (Paper Mill), Alex is proud to be collaborating with him on Broadway. As always, love to Mom, Dad and little Sis.

JAMES LYNN ABBOTT (Dance Arrangements). Broadway: Aida, Rent, Footloose, Joseph..., Cats, Sunset Boulevard, and Miss Saigon. National tours include Starlight Express, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, The Who's Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar, among others. He has performed with Aretha Franklin, Dennis DeYoung of Styx, Shirley Bassey, Bob Hope, Vanessa Williams and with Elton John in “Greatest Hits Live” at Madison Square Garden. Clients include Dr. Pepper, Frito Lay, American Airlines and General Electric.

GREGORY MAGUIRE (Author of Original Novel) had written a dozen novels for children before launching his first adult novel, Wicked. A lifelong devotee of children's fantasy (he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the subject), Maguire's subsequent novels for adults are variations-on-a-theme: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (made into an ABC movie starring Stockard Channing) considers Cinderella as a seventeenth century maid from Haarlem; Lost evokes the ghost of Charles Dickens's Scrooge; and Mirror Mirror concerns a High Renaissance Snow White trapped in a household governed by the scheming Borgias. Originally from Albany, NY, Maguire lives outside Boston with his partner, the painter Andy Newman, and their three children. For more information on Gregory and his work, visit www.gregorymaguire.com. And order Wicked theater tickets from Stage Front Tickets, Inc.

MARC PLATT (Producer) has served as president of production for three movie studios (Orion, TriStar and Universal), developing and guiding the production of such films as Silence of the Lambs; Sleepless In Seattle; Philadelphia; As Good As It Gets; My Best Friend's Wedding and Jerry Maguire. Wicked He now heads Marc Platt Productions and among the films he has produced are the smash hits Legally Blonde and its sequel Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, The Perfect Man, Honey, and Josie and the Pussycats. For television, Mr. Platt has produced an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Empire Falls (HBO) starring Ed Harris, Helen Hunt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; and Once Upon A Mattress (ABC) starring Carol Burnett and Tracey Ullman. Additionally, Marc has co-produced five children with his wife Julie.

DAVID STONE (Producer) is currently represented by The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. He has produced Man of La Mancha directed by Jonathan Kent; Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues directed by Joe Mantello; Becky Mode's Fully Committed directed by Nicholas Martin; Lifegame by the Improbable Theatre; Wendy Kesselman's new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank directed by James Lapine; Mary Louise Wilson's Full Gallop directed by Nicholas Martin; David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries directed by Joe Mantello; and Sherry Glaser's Family Secrets. David has lectured on Wicked theatre at the Juilliard School, NYU, Yale, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

JON B. PLATT (Producer). Tony Awards: Copenhagen; Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Pulitzer Prize for Drama); Perestroika. Tony Award nominations: Damn Yankees; Peter Pan; Hello, Dolly!; The Diary of Anne Frank; Lonesome West; Man of La Mancha; Wicked. National: The Sound of Music; Sunset Boulevard; Hair; Jesus Christ Superstar; Fiddler On The Roof; Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; A Chorus Line; The Graduate; Blue Man Group "Tubes." Off Broadway: Forbidden Broadway: SVU Special Victims Unit.

STEVEN BECKLER (Production Supervisor). Original production stage manager for Hairspray; Six Degrees of Separation; Guys and Dolls; Laughter on the 23rd Floor; The House of Blue Leaves; Lend Me a Tenor; 45 Seconds From Broadway; Footloose; Moon Over Buffalo; Wicked Once Upon a Mattress; The Scarlet Pimpernel; The Dresser; Smokey Joe's Cafe; Tintypes; Rose; Face Value; 'night, Mother; Precious Sons; The Octette Bridge Club. Other Broadway credits include Wicked Grease; Irene; The Ritz. Tours: Anything Goes; On Your Toes; The Tap Dance Kid.