Remember when musicals were made into movies and not the other way around? These days it’s getting harder and harder to tell The Orpheum’s Broadway series from its film series. Six of this years eight touring musicals started out on the silver screen. Seven if you cheat a bit and credit The Wizard of Oz as source material for Wicked.
WICKED
October 13-31, 2010
Love it or loathe it there can be no doubt Wicked, an effects-laden musical about the witches of Oz, brings the green to Main & Beale. It certainly cast a spell on Memphis theatergoers last season who turned out to see the show in big numbers. The Orpheum’s aggressive pre-sale strategy also worked like magic, making tickets disappear at an astonishing rate.
