{"id":353,"date":"2017-06-07T17:57:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T22:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/?p=353"},"modified":"2017-06-07T17:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T22:57:39","slug":"i-have-been-changed-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/2017\/06\/07\/i-have-been-changed-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Been Changed For Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight’s excursion was a field trip to the Apollo Victoria for a showing of Stephen Schwartz’s\u00a0Wicked.<\/em> I saw the show in Boston 7 years ago and decided to tag along tonight to experience it again.<\/p>\n

What an amazing, beautiful, wonderful decision.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

This show was far superior to Boston Opera House, where the sets are temporary and portable. No, this was the real deal.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen Phantom of the Opera on Broadway in a theatre that was built specifically for the show. I remember absolutely loving it, being amazed at the complexity of the set, props, and mechanics of the stage.<\/p>\n

In terms of that amazement, tonight was no different.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The stage, theatre, sets, etc. were all built specifically for Wicked. The vocals were beyond comparison — I daresay Willemijn Verkaik was better than Idina Menzel. Everything moved, the set had rhythm, the lighting was beyond spectacular. I wanted to belt out Defying Gravity, and sobbed during For Good. This show was definitely worth it.<\/p>\n

Might I say, it was wicked awesome?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight’s excursion was a field trip to the Apollo Victoria for a showing of Stephen Schwartz’s\u00a0Wicked. I saw the show in Boston 7 years ago and decided to tag along tonight to experience it again. What an amazing, beautiful, wonderful … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}