“Son of a Witch” by Gregory Maguire Read by the author Produced by Harper Audio (2005) Approx 14.5 hours I still haven’t had the chance to see “Wicked” the musical, but I couldn’t just stop after reading the book. I found Gregory Maguire had written two sequels to the book so I thought I would […]
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The sedated condition of contemporary pop music needs something to resuscitate it before it flatlines. Anyone for a dose of steampunk-flavored vaudeville performance art? Steam Powered Giraffe is damnably difficult to pigeonhole. Which does much to explain why this trio of robots are performing daily at the San Diego Zoo while Katy Perry sells out […]
Broadway’s Wicked is an amazing, colorful yet dark, and spectacular musical that will have you mesmerized for two hours and thirty minutes. Wicked is a Broadway style adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s best selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. For all of you out there who never tired […]
Wicked: The True Story of the Wicked West has taken its place comfortably among my favorite three stories of all time before Elphaba, the wicked witch, even reached adulthood. In fact, Injustice is my all-time number two favorite novel, after A Fellowship of the Dukes. As the title suggests, he wants to tell an alternative […]
Gregory Maguire’s Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West L. Frank Baum turns the novel into children in a new, multi-faceted and much darker meditation on both natures. evil and has the effect of propagation in the ideological perspectives that are emphasized. Oz Baum was trying to impose a utopia; Maguire […]