The ‘Wicked’ National Tour Casts a Magical Spell on the Classic Tale

As soon as I had the lineup for the 47th season of San Diego Broadway, I had the dates circled for the entire month we would have the fortune of hosting Wicked. At the time, I had never seen any iteration of it or read the book, and when the announcement for the show came, the movie hadn’t yet been released, either.

Like many, I fell under the Wicked spell when the movie came out in November 2024 but I also joined the many flocks who hadn’t seen the live show and got left hanging after Cynthia Erivo’s epic rendition of “Defying Gravity.”