“Wicked” is above all, an experience, and most that have it want to repeat it: often multiple times. Like “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” which laid the premillennial seeds for what, in 2000 became Broadway in Chicago, with a fourteen-month 1993-94 run, “Wicked” moved in for what became a record-breaking multi-year 2005-09 run with scattered holiday-season encores. Meanwhile, young girls were sitting motionless and mesmerized, their eyes as wide as saucers as they took it all in for a first time. Adult women with hankies in one hand and cocktails in the other were audibly and emotionally reliving the empowerment that they felt when they first experienced the show. Need proof that “Wicked” is almost twenty years old? That nearly a full generation has passed since the Great White Way went Emerald Green? Look no further than the seats on opening night at the Nederlander Theatre. Jennafer Newberry as Glinda and Lissa deGuzman as Elphaba in the national tour of “Wicked”/Photo: Joan Marcus
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