Last night, April & I went to see Wicked the musical. It has been in Tulsa for the summer and April has been waiting to see it for a very long time. I found the production to be very good. The sets were intricate, the costumes elaborate, and the voices were impressive.

However, what I thought was seriously lacking was the writing. The lyrics were lame as well as the story. The musical is based on the book, which I haven’t read. So I don’t know if the bad writing is transposed by the musical or if the source of it all is the book.

The overall success of this musical for me was because it piggy-backs on a larger, better story. The musical was a kind of parallel story of the original to which it tips it’s hat at different places in the story. And it is this that keeps people coming in droves. Including myself and my beautiful wife.

Continuing on the same ‘theatre’ theme, we’ve also seen a movie recently called, Synedoche, New York. For those of you who liked the movie Adaptation, this is the same sort of whackyness. I hate to tell very much about this film, but it is definitely worth picking up and seeing!