Last night after work, I met up with my younger sister (not the cat-dumping one) and my former voice teacher to go downtown for the opening night of “Wicked” at the Fox. I decided weeks and weeks ago, for no particular reason, that I wanted to see it…which still kind of strikes me as funny considering that a) I have neither read the book nor seen the show previously, and knew nothing of the plotline, and b) I am not one to follow musicals very closely.
But, having been shamelessly music-obsessed to an unhealthy degree for as long as I can remember (as in, I still remember entire songs from movies I watched when I was, like, five) and being someone who occasionally gets the weird itch to immerse herself in the energy of the city’s nightlife, it seemed like a promising night out.
And it was. Oh my God, it was. The set, the cast, the voices…For once, I actually had that stupid, clichéd feeling of losing all sense of time and place (outside of dissociation, ha), which is no small achievement. I’m usually too busy overanalyzing things to be able to get outside of my head long enough to get lost in a storyline. But last night, other than an ambulance siren bleeding through once at a quieter moment (yeah, you gotta love Atlanta), the warm-fuzzy side of my little mind very firmly took over and carted me off to Oz. And there I remained for the duration of the evening.
So it was a nice night. I don’t even mind the slightly bleary-brained feeling that comes from crawling into bed at one-thirty in the morning and getting back up at six for work.
My sister had told me earlier on that she is seeing the production again later in the month with a couple of her friends, and truthfully, I thought it was rather tending toward overkill. Granted, she is the most theatrically-inclined of the family and really does have a particular liking for “Wicked”…but still.
Yeah, well. Now I get it.
And not only that but…shuffle, shuffle…I’m doing it too, and going again – this time with my best friend – for my birthday.
And yes, I’m totally looking forward to it already.
