Others say...

"Wicked"
I loved this CD and not only ordered one for myself, but ordered some for gifts. The music was wonderful and we are all looking forward now to seeing the play. What a great deal I got from Amazon.com. Why would I shop any where else.

"Amazing amazing amazing!!!"
This has to be the best broadway cast recording i have heard in a long time. Idina and Kristin's voices are amazing. Even though they are totally different they mesh together so well. The orchestration is amazing as well. I love that almost whenever Elphie does a song its percussion and brass driven [almost like a lurking shadow effect] and when Glinda does a song its mostly strings and woodwinds. This CD is just genius. And the show is amazing defintaly go see it!

"Oohs and ahhs"
Just as the original Gregory Maguire novel on which this tremendously successful musical made hay by playing with the elements of Frank Baum's original WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, so too does this Winnie Holtzman-Stephen Schwartz work play with the conventions of musical theatre. There are power ballads and love duets, and a stirring recurring theme that recalls the early rock opera works of the Seventies (as well as Orff's "Carmina Burana"), and probably the most satisfying part of both the original cast album and the show itself are when its heroines go to see a show-within-a-show in the "One Short Day" number where the music of Jule Styne seems to be directly evoked. WICKED is by far the best musical that Schwartz ever wrote, and he was lucky enough to have a book that hit all the right notes with his audience and two stunning leads in Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth (as, respectively, Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, who in this story are old college roommates who become best friends--and then square uneasily when against one another during a complex political power struggle over the future of Oz). Unfortunately Joel Grey, as the Wizard, gives an unforgivably schmaltzy take on his big solo, "Wonderful" (which other actors have done much better with); but how could you find better singers in the lead roles than Menzel and Chenoweth? You have only to listen to the score to see why it's been such a success, and why so many younger theater-lovers know all the words to songs like "Popular" and "Defying Gravity."

"Something Wicked This Way Comes"
Absolutely loved this and wish I could have seen the production with the original cast. Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth's voices mesh so well together. Their voices just evoke such emotion.

This story of how the Elphaba became the Wicked Witch of the West is interesting. It reminds me of a noir story. Every action has a consequence. The music and songs are successful in conveying the complexity of the story.

"EXCELLENT!!!!!!!"
Great cd - Great music - Great show! I love this album! Fast shipping from Amazon - excellent product!