Wicked (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (23,647)
See it if You love an incredible story, powerful vocals, gorgeous staging and everything Oz.
Don't see it if You know ABSOLUTELY nothing about The Wizard of Oz.
See it if You want to see a safe and classic Broadway show with incredible singing and sets.
Don't see it if You want to see something with a bit more substance.
See it if you like the story of wicked and want to hear some magnificent vocals
Don't see it if I personally just couldn't engage in it, some of the lyrics felt clunky
See it if If you enjoy fantasy, magic, catchy showtunes, romance, and the wonderful word of Oz!
Don't see it if you don't like classic musicals
See it if Amazing singing
Don't see it if In my view Nothing.joyful time.
See it if You want to see one of the greats. It’s as good as ever with wonderful leads and magical staging.
Don't see it if IDK, you’re waiting for the movie I guess?
See it if You love musicals! It is AMAZING, I’ve seen the show many times in different places around the world now and that was so far the best yet!
Don't see it if I loved it all so
See it if You like witty characters and dramatic so songs
Don't see it if You don’t like musicals
Critic Reviews (24)
"In retrospect, Wicked seems an early sign of the cultural clout which is to say buying power of a generation of girls (and now women) whose desire to see, read, and sing along with stories about female empowerment has become a snowballing trend."
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"A musical prequel to The Wizard of Oz, that explained how the Wicked Witch of the West got that way, and explored her true relationship to Glinda the Good Witch. A combination of outstanding elements."
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"Two of the producers of the musical Wicked bear the name Platt, which (in German) means flat, and one the name Stone, which (in English) means heavy. Why not also one called Long, although it is too much to ask for one called Boring, all of which apply to the show."
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"The best moments in 'Wicked' come when the stage is least crowded. I'm done niggling. 'Wicked' is funny and touching and full of beans (not to mention child-friendly). It'll make a great movie one of these days, and it's going to make Kristin Chenoweth a star right this minute. Go."
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"Nothing in Oz, you see, happened the way Judy Garland thought it did. In 'Wicked', the ruby slippers aren’t even red. So, all ye who enter here, check your cynicism at the door and get in touch with the little kid inside you who’s been begging to get out. Neither of you will want to leave 'Wicked.'"
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"What is spectacular about the show is the spectacle. That old Emerald City has never had it so good, with flying monkeys and giant Munchkins with extendable necks. Kids will love it, even if they don’t quite understand it. But this yellow brick road is also paved with oppressive music and banal, if sometimes pretentiously amusing, lyrics and a complex, if foolish, book."
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"'Wicked's' at its cleverest with the girl stuff; the streamlining of Maguire’s story – reducing a totalitarian allegory to an animal-rights flap – weakens the narrative logic. Catchy Stephen Schwartz songs compensate for a dreary opening number, but it’s the 'Wicked' witches who really make magic."
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"It's an ambitious musical...There are so many wonderful things in Wicked that to dismiss it as so many critics have done strikes us as perverse...It has a heart, a brain, and the nerve to have opened on Broadway."
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