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Contact: David Barry
Broadway's Biggest Blockbuster Comes To Birmingham - On Sale January 16th
Date: January 08, 2009
BIRMINGHAM, AL – WICKED, the most anticipated musical production of the 2008 – 2009 season will go on sale to the public on Friday, January 16, at 7:00 AM; tickets will be exclusively available at the Central Ticket Office at the BJCC located at 1101 19th Street North in Birmingham. Beginning at 10 a.m. tickets will be available for purchase online at www.ticketmaster.com, charge by phone at (800) 982-2787, at Ticketmaster ticket centers locate in select Publix Supermarkets and f.y.e record stores and Central Ticket Office at the BJCC. There is an 8-ticket limit per patron.
Ticket buyers are invited to a special box office event on Friday, January 16 at the Central Ticket Office located at the BJCC. Ticket will go on sale at the Central ticket Office at 7:00 AM for an exclusive pre-sale event. The first 100 people in line to make a purchase at the Central Ticket Office will receive a WICKED Cap. WWMM Live 100.5 will be live on location in front of the BJCC for three hours, playing music and providing entertainment for those in line, drawings for merchandise as well as providing breakfast from McDonalds.
WICKED will play April 3 – 19 at the BJCC Concert Hall for a limited engagement of 21 performances only.
WICKED is a new musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Disney’s Enchanted, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman (“My So Called Life,” “Once And Again” and “thirtysomething”) based on the best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire. WICKED is set to make its Birmingham premiere starting April 3, 2009.
The musical is directed by 2003 and 2004 Tony® Award winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Assassins, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Vagina Monologues, Glengarry Glenn Ross) and features musical staging by Tony® Award winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who’s Tommy, How To Succeed…). WICKED, winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy® Award and 3 Tony® Awards, is the untold story of the witches of Oz. It is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.
Long before Dorothy drops 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. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.
WICKED features set design by Tony® Award winning Eugene Lee (Ragtime, Show Boat, Candide, Sweeney Todd), costume design by Tony® winner Susan Hilferty (Into the Woods, Assassins), lighting design by Tony nominee® Kenneth Posner (Hairspray) and sound design by Tony Meola (The Lion King and the recent Man of La Mancha). Stephen Oremus is the show’s music director. Orchestrations are by William David Brohn, with dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott.
The national tour of WICKED has “cast quite a spell” (Washington Post) throughout North America. It opened at Toronto’s Canon Theatre on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 and sold out a seven-week run. WICKED has continued to break box office records and sell out multiple-week engagements in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Boston to name a few.
WICKED, “Broadway’s biggest blockbuster” (The New York Times) began performances in New York on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 at The Gershwin Theatre and continues to be the top-grossing show on Broadway. WICKED is “good enough to run for a decade or two,” proclaims The Wall Street Journal. It’s “a cultural phenomenon,” exclaims Variety. “If every musical had the brain, the heart and the courage of WICKED, Broadway really would be a magical place,” states Time Magazine.
The Chicago company of WICKED took the stage on Friday, June 24, 2005 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, and the Los Angeles production of WICKED started performances at the Pantages Theatre on February 10, 2007.
There are currently four international productions of WICKED: a London production, which opened in September 2006 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre; a Japanese-language production, which opened on June 17, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan; a German-language production, which opened in Stuttgart on November 15, 2007; and an Australian production, which opened in Melbourne, Australia on July 12, 2008.
Grammy Award-Winning Cast recording available on Decca Broadway. For more information about WICKED log on to www.wickedthemusical.com.
WICKED will be performed at the BJCC CONCERT HALL APRIL 3-19 for twenty-one performances. Tickets start at $28, plus applicable service charge and facility usage fee. Discounts are available for some performances for groups of 20 by calling (866) 747-7469.
Recommended for ages 8 and up and no children under the age of 4 will be admitted into the theater.The Birmingham engagement of WICKED is presented by arrangement with Broadway Across America and is a subscription offering of the 2008-2009 Broadway Across America-Birmingham season.
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Broadway Across America presents first-rate touring Broadway shows, family productions and other live theatrical events throughout a network of 42 North American cities. A leader in subscription series programs and group ticketing, Broadway Across America is dedicated to creating memorable and accessible experiences for all guests, selling over 5 million tickets to over 3,000 performances each year. As a producer, current and recent Broadway productions include: Hairspray, Chicago, Monty Python’s Spamalot and The Producers. It also manages, operates or consults in the operation of 8 theatres across North America. For more information or to purchase tickets through an authorized agent go to BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com
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