WICKED!!!

This was the status of my daughter on Facebook for the whole day yesterday. She left at noon with a few lower classmen, tons of upper classmen and a few teachers. They spent the afternoon in Des Moines and saw the theatrical production of Wicked.

In case you've been living in, let's say, Equador, Wicked is the story of the poor little green skinned girl who later becomes the wicked witch of the West in Wizard of Oz.

I stopped by the high school to drop her off supper right after the bus brought them back. I asked one boy who got off the bus if this was the Wicked group. He agreed... Not sure what he thought I meant...

She only had 30 minutes between getting to the school and play practice starting, so her time was tight. Maddy met us at the car finally and just GUSHED about the play. "It was SO AWESOME!!!!"

At my American Sewers Guild meeting last weekend, some of the ladies had spent their summer vacations in New York and had seen the play on Broadway. Instead of paying attention to the play, which they'd already seen, they spent the time analyzing the costumes. A couple of them had backstage passes so they got to see the costumes up close. "Oh!!! They cut it on the bias!" and "Look at that edging detail!" The story line and acting didn't impress them, but how they cut the fabric did. They brought back a photo album of just the costumes.

Apparently the lead witch wore a costume with yards and yards of beautiful fabric that cost $500 per yard. All the costumes in the Broadway production together cost over $1 million! Wow... And to think our high school Gilbert & Sullivan productions were done with whatever you could bring for yourself from home...