Oz: The Great And Powerful Versus Wicked

This past weekend I was fortunate enough to get a chance to enjoy the musical show Wicked in Boston, and from the moment it began to the moment it closed, I was once again revisiting a familiar and welcome sensation.  Watching a story be presented live before you, seeing how the actors become stagehands and watching drama and comedy be connected to the audience so it can be properly paced gives an experience few movies have ever been able to capture on their own.

Now, I know that the show Wicked is very different from the book.  It has a more bittersweet ending, many characters and plot threads are dropped, and the fates of certain characters completely changed.  The stage show strips out a lot of the sex and politics (seriously, the book could be the next Game of Thrones series on HBO), However, when the person who wrote the book has attended the show dozens of times in the first four years it opened, I think it's safe to say that the edits aren't really all that bad.

There was another prequel to The Wizard Of Oz that came out not too long ago, so I guess the question is which one did a better job telling a good story?  Let's break the two down and see where each one went right and where each one went wrong.

Theater

It's not always easy to find a topic to talk about in this blog.  I want there to be enough variety so that people can look one day and, if the subject doesn't interest them, come back the next day and go "Oh, that looks interesting."  However, while some things are easy to map out ahead of time (Ask Eriks and episode reviews, for instance), other things tend to be a spur of the moment deal.

This appears to be one of those days, so I'm just going to grab something from a huge stack of stuff I have to sort and ramble about it for a while let's see here.  A gift card to Ricetta's...I should use that.  A World Wildlife Fund sticker...need to find a home for that.  Okay, just grab something, let's see what we've got.

You know, I don't know if I still have anything that could play this.  I had a Walkman somewhere but I might have got rid of it.