The Emerald City

gelphaba · Moderator

How did you hear of Wicked? The novel or musical

one_short_day · Moderator

I was in my chorus class and the teacher played the music of wicked! I loved the song popular and defying gravity so when I got home I started to find out more about it

gelphaba · Moderator

Yeah, I listen to it daily now...it's my fav. soundtrack...lol.

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

My drama teacher in middle school would always talk to us about what new musicals were coming out and whatnot and played some songs from them and stuff. So when she played wicked I automatically loved it and bought the cd and have been obsessed ever since!

gelphaba · Moderator

Cool!

Broadwayprincess19 · Veteran Member

I actually read the book when i was ten, and then when I was in 8th grade i heard it was becoming a musical and I've been Following it ever Since

one_short_day · Moderator

Yeah I think thats how most people hear about it, They listen to the CD or read the book... and then they find out that it is becoming a musical and then they think that they will give it a try... Thats how I found out! lol!

gelphaba · Moderator

Let's see...I heard of the CD first...lol

one_short_day · Moderator

lol! I think pretty much everone has heard the CD before anything else

SoConfuzifying · Galindas Popular Friends

Well i actually heard of the Musical and then our Band went and seen it in Canada and the obsession began! I absolutly fell in LOVE!

one_short_day · Moderator

Oh thats cool you got to go with your WHOLE band to go see wicked

SoConfuzifying · Galindas Popular Friends

yeah it was amazing becuase all my friends got to see it also!

greenie · Newbie

Cool! I've been trying to force my firends int going for ages! A friend of mine told me about it, I htought it sounded ok, I'm really into witches and stuff. I saw it and loved it! I got the book one christmas and thus an obession was born.

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

I first heard the soundtrack as I was flying back to Germany for the holidays (I love Emirates!) After that chance encounter with Idina's voice, I searched the every book&music-store I saw after that, until I found the novel in one of them (Bless you, MPH!), which brings me to another thing;

Does anyone have the German lyrics of "For Good" and "The Wizard and I"?

I'm not sure if I just can't find them anywhere, or if I'm just stupid.....

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

have you listened to the german recording yet? I really like it.
I don't have the lyrics though, and i don't speak a word of german so i can't even guess at them. lol

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

I haven't heard all the sounds in German, but I love the ones I've heard so far. I love both, but somehow I feel the German version sounds better....

Anyway, if you find the lyrics somewhere, please let me know...

Why don't you learn German? If you can get into it, it's really easy..... But since German is my mother-tongue, I guess it's easier for me......

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

lol well i'm already trilingual (english, spanish, and french). It'd be very cool to quadrilingal, lol. but i definitely don't have the time now.

I do really like wicked in german, it's so different then anything else. I'd love to hear the japanese version too.

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

Haha, I'm already quadrilingual (english, german, malay, chinese), only Wicked hasn't been translated into malay and chinese.......

Yes, the german version is quite unique...... Is it in french or spanish yet? I'd like to hear those too....

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

wow that's so cool! To bad we don't speak any of the same languages (besides english of course). What was your first language? I was born in Spain so Spanish was my first.

i don't think they have wicked in spanish or french yet. there have been rumors of it but nothing finalized. I would love if they did though, that'd be amazing.

Nogooddeed · Newbie

Mari introduced it to me actually smile

then i saw it with choir and i was hooked

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

lol, yup. i introduced a lot of people. just doing my wicked duties

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

Because of where I was born and to whom, my first language was German, so I can pronounce the lyrics (mainly Elphaba's) quite well, although now I mainly speak english, because I'm currently studying in Malaysia.

It's wierd though, even though we only have english in common, our languages are still linked- my mother is learning french, and my cousin is learning spanish! Only I'm the only one here that speaks chinese and malay.......

It would be great if they translate Wicked into more languages..... I would really love to hear it in French, or perhaps Italian! I would love to hear the various Elphabas......

-- Edited by WitchoftheWest at 14:57, 2008-06-01

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

ooh that is really cool!

yeah i'd love to hear wicked in a bunch of different languages, i'm sure it'll happen eventually. Shows like Les Miserables and Phantom have been translated into dozens of languages

WitchoftheWest · Veteran Member

I know!!! It's awesome! But is it just me, or are they taking their time in translating Wicked more than with the other musicals? I wish they'd hurry up!

Mariphaba · Madame Maribel

i know! well shows like phantom have been around for 20 some years so i guess it does take awhile