The Overture Center announced that the hit musical “Wicked” will be performing a run of three weeks from September 22 through October 10, 2010. The Biggest Blockbuster from Broadway is a performance for the whole family and a can’t miss show. In fact my tween daughter is practically defying gravity and over the moon at the thought.

Cast profiles of key members for the Wicked production in Madison, Wisconsin including Vicki Noon (Elphaba), Natalie Daradich (Glinda), Marilyn Caskey (Madame Morrible) and Don Amendolia (The Wizard).

Overture Center for the Arts, located in Madison Wisconsin, is an art gallery and performing arts center. The Overture is a replacement for the Civic Center. Jerome Frautschi commissioned the center. Cesar Pelli was the designer and J.H Findorff and Son was the builder. The cost for constructing the building was $205 million which was paid by Frautschi. It was the largest private donation for the arts for its kind. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is also housed there.

When Dorothy defeated the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz, the story was only told from one point of view. In “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” Gregory Maguire’s highly acclaimed novel from 1995, Oz was re-imagined and a parallel universe was created to L. Frank Baum’s classic story written in 1900 and published as “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”