Idina Menzel, My Latest Find February 24, 2008
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Wicked is a musical based on Gregory Maguire’s novel by the same name. The lead actress, Idina Menzel, plays the part of Elphaba, a green-skinned witch in the land of Oz.
If you want a sampling of the best track of the musical, I’d recommend these three:
1.) Popular
2.) Defying Gravity
3.) I’m Not That Girl.
The songs are full of witty lyrics and catchy tunes from Stephen Schwartz (composer and lyricist).
You’ll hear Kristin Chenowith (who plays Glinda, the blond-haired popular witch) yodel the song Popular in her high-pitched chipmunk voice. You’ll die laughing at these lines too:
“I’ll show you how to fix your hair, what shoes to wear…”
“Don’t be offended by my frank analysis, think of it as personality dialysis…”
“Pink goes good with green…”
I think the best song in the soundtrack is “Defying Gravity.” Idina sings this song at the moment when she is lifted up onstage to escape the angry mob who were after her blood. All eyes on her and all heads turn up to follow her as she slowly levitates, sheets of black robes flowing around her… it was a jaw-dropping spectacle.
I end this blog with two stanzas of a song that Idina Menzel wrote herself. “I Stand,” a song of affirmation she sang in Wake Up with Whoopi while sitting on a stool, with no shoes on, and one leg tucked under the other.
I stand for the power to change
I live for the perfect day
I love till it hurts like crazy
I hope for a hero to save me
I stand for the strange and lonely
I believe there is a better place
I don’t know if the sky is heaven
But I pray anyway.
