WICKED Comes to Winnipeg, On Sale 5/14

WICKED, the most anticipated musical production of the 2011 season will go
on sale to the public on Saturday, May 14. 

From 7am - 10am, tickets will be exclusively .
available at the Manitoba Centennial Concert Hall Box Office, 555 Main Street. Beginning at
10 a.m., any remaining tickets will be available for purchase through all Ticketmaster outlets,
online at www.ticketmaster.ca or by calling 1.855.985.5000. There is an 8-ticket limit per patron.
Ticket buyers are invited to special box office opening festivities on SATURDAY, MAY 14 AT
THE MANITOBA CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL, FROM 7:00AM until 10:00AM.
Beat the rush for tickets and enjoy special perks including:
• Access to the best seats in the house for each performance prior to the public on sale and
save on the Ticketmaster Service Fee;
• Multiple Ticketmaster agents available to assist in selecting seats and processing orders;
• A special gift from WICKED for the first 100 ticket purchasers;
• Group sales representatives on site to process orders of more than 20 tickets;
• Games and special activities for the entire family.
WICKED will play August 24 - September 4 at the Manitoba Centennial Concert Hall. Week 1
performances run, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm, Sunday evening
at 7:30pm with Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 2pm matinees. Week 2 performances run
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm, with Thursday and
Saturday matinees at 2pm and a Sunday matinee at 1pm. Ticket prices begin at $64.00.
Groups of 20 or more are currently on sale now by calling 800-889-8457.
WICKED, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Disney's Enchanted,
Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie
Holzman ("My So Called Life," "Once And Again" and "thirtysomething"), is based on the best-selling 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire. WICKED is set to make its Winnipeg premiere
starting August 24.
The musical is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Love!
Valour! Compassion!, The Vagina Monologues) and features musical staging by Tony® Award
winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who's Tommy, How To Succeed...). WICKED, winner of 35
major awards, including a Grammy® Award and 3 Tony® Awards, is the untold story of the
witches of Oz. It is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt
and David Stone.
Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One - born with emerald
green skin - is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very
popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends
grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.
WICKED features set design by Tony® Award winning Eugene Lee (Ragtime, Show Boat,
Candide, Sweeney Todd), costume design by Tony® winner Susan Hilferty (Spring Awakening,
Into the Woods, Assassins), lighting design by Tony nominee® Kenneth Posner (Tony® Award
winner for The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray) and sound design by Tony Meola (The Lion King).
Stephen Oremus is the show's music director. Orchestrations are by William David Brohn,
with dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott.
WICKED has "cast quite a spell" (Washington Post) throughout North America, breaking box
office records in every city that it has played, including Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Boston to name a few.
Called "a cultural phenomenon" by Variety and named "the defining musical of the decade" by
The New York Times, WICKED continues to thrill audiences around the world. There are
currently seven productions of WICKED worldwide, including two North American tours, a
Broadway production, London production, a Japanese-language production, a German language
production and Australian production. A Dutch-language production of WICKED will open in
2011.
Grammy Award-Winning Cast recording available on Decca Broadway. For more information
about WICKED log on to www.wickedthemusical.com.

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