January 2nd, 2010

stay true to the book!

A few years back I went and saw Wicked with my mom and sister in NYC. The music, the costumes, etc., were incredible, but I found the musical-version of the story irritating. They literally stripped the book, taking out pertinent information and completely rewriting an entire story line (Elphaba and Glinda fighting over a non-blue Fiyero? SERIOUSLY?). Now don’t get me wrong, I realize that they can’t incorporate everything, but completely changing the end to the opposite of what was in the book? Not cool.

Wicked is touring now and the Chop and I went to see it tonight… once again, I am left irritated. This time the music/sound system wasn’t as good as NYC and having just re-read the book, the inconsistencies were far more stark than I remembered. I’m slightly bummed.

Then again, we played frisbee in the snow with the dog and we’re pretty sure we found Snooki’s twin working at a bar downtown, so the night was not a total loss. 🙂

In other news.. today is a palindrome and the JFK presidential library is going to run a Twitter feed of JFK’s 1960 campaign. I love technology.