My San Diego STAYcation: Wicked the Musical at the San Diego Civic Theatre
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I crossed another item off my list of new things to do on my San Diego STAYcation!
On August 28th I went to see the musical Wicked at the San Diego Civic Theater.
We kicked off our night with drinks at the Gaslamp Strip Club (just a steak restaurant with a cute name) and then had dinner at Blue Point Coastal Cuisine.
Wicked was fantastic! Since it’s debut in 2003, Wicked has broken box office records around the world. The music is great and the story is captivating.
My favorite Wicked song was “Popular” because “It’s all about popular“.
I also LOVED the uber-sparkly dress Glinda (the Good Witch) wears in the final scenes. You can check out her sparkly dress and other costumes in this YouTube video interview with Dianne Pilkington. My inside sources tell me that the dress the sparkly dress is covered in crystals and costs more than $15,000!
A fun fact — Chandra Lee Schwartz (who played the lead role of Glinda in Wicked) is the daughter of Eileen Schwartz, the Director of Education at Exclusive Properties.
Another STAYcation activity complete, and another postcard in the collection.
You can check out my past postcards from other San Diego STAYcations on Flickr.
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A bit about the play from Wikipedia:
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of L. Frank Baum‘s classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz. Wicked tells the story of Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.
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
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Some of NEW activities I tried this summer are: Attending Opening Day at the Del Mar races and going to my first country music concert (Toby Keith and Trace Adkins) and Beach Yoga.
We saw it on the 29th…wonderful show!!
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