The hit musical wicked, at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre, has dominated the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’Choice Awards 2007, winning 4 awards: Best New Musical, Best Set Design (Eugene Lee), Best Supporting Actress in a Musical (Miriam Margolyes) and Best Actress in a Musical (Idina Menzel) Over 12,000 members of the theatregoing public cast their online votes with the musical wicked winning all of its nominated categories. The musical averaged over 51% of the total votes cast in its nominated categories and also won more awards than any other production. "On behalf of my colleagues Marc Platt and David Stone and everyone at Universal, I'd like to thank all the theatregoers who voted for Wicked and to offer my personal congratulations to Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Holzman and our superbly talented London cast...." Michael McCabe, Executive Producer. Whatsonstage.com is the UK's biggest performing arts website and this year celebrates its 10th birthday. The Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’Choice Awards are now in their fifth year. "Wicked" has been playing long enough for it’s first- (and second-) string stars to have moved on, but not long enough for audiences to have forgotten them. The current stars, Megan Hilty and Shoshana Bean, seem tentative onstage, devoid of idiosyncrasies. Ms. Hilty adds a bit of a goofy charm to the perfect Glinda, but she can't seem to locate the jokes in her lines or find the lift in the bouncy tune "Popular." Ms. Bean, who has a precise and impressive singing voice, is more believable as an outcast than Idina Menzel, but her characterization is generic, which also could be said of David Ayers, who plays the love interest of both witches, Fiyero. Rue McClanahan is doing maaahvelous things with vowel sounds as Madam Morrible; Ben Vereen makes a convincingly broken-down Wizard. (Read Ben Brantley's review of the original Broadway cast.)
Please Rate this Article 5 out of 54 out of 53 out of 52 out of 51 out of 5
Not yet Rated
