Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Wicked, Avenue Q, A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, Memphis, Road Show, Zanna, Don't!, 3 Musketiers, The Musical of Musicals, Little Fish, Camille Claudel, Stand by the River, Boobs! The Musical, Urban Cowboy, Never Gonna Dance, SILENCE! The Musical, Route 66, De 3 Biggetjes, Tonight's the Night, The Thing About Men, Zipp!, The Rat Pack: Live From Las Vegas, Rockquiem. Excerpt: Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of the 1939 film of L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It is told from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz. The show celebrated its seventh anniversary on October 30, 2010. It is currently the 17th longest-running Broadway show in history, having played 3,094 performances as of March 27, 2011. In the week ending January 2, 2011, the London, Broadway, and both national touring productions all broke the record for the highest weekly gross. Wicked tells the story of Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her relationship with Galinda, later Glinda, the Good Witch of the North (in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz novel, Glinda is the Good Witch of the South). Their friendship struggles through their opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, their reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's public fall from grace. The plot begins before and continues after Dorothy's arrival from Kansas, and includes several references to the events depicted in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz as a backstory. After tryouts at the Curran Theatre in May 2003 as part of SHN (Theatres) Broadway series in San Francisco, Wicked...