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Wicked Title Page.......................................................... 13 ALVIN HOUGH JR. (Music Director/ Conductor).

Dreamgirls (National Tour); Wicked Cast...................................................................

15 Innocence—workshop (Manhattan Theatre Wicked Musical Numbers. . ............................................. 17 Club); Saving Aimee by Kathie Lee Gifford Wicked Who’s the Cast.......................................

19 (New 42ndWho St inStudios); One Night Only Benefit with Sheryl Lee Ralph (Memorial Wicked Staff.................................................................

37 Theatre); Say It Ain’t So (Kennedy Center); Des Moines Performing Arts in the Spotlight:.............. 50 Night at the Oak Room (Algonquin).

A New Season Begins for the Iowa High School Graduate of Harvard University, 2006.

Musical Theater Awards

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AUGUST ERIKSMOEN (Dance Arranger).

Long-Time Supporters Broadway: The Addams Family, Memphis, Million Dollar Quartet, Ring of Fire, All A Wicked Good Storyteller .. ...........................................

54 Shook Up, Rent. Off-B’way: Romantic Des Moines Performing Arts Board of Directors........... 58 Poetry, Walmartopia, Imperfect Chemistry.

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FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO

Dear friends, Welcome to the Des Moines Civic Center and to our Willis Broadway Series presentation of Wicked.

Wicked is based on the best-selling 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire. The show invites the audience to learn how two girls meet in Oz and become unlikely friends – and how one grows to become Glinda the Good Witch and the other the Wicked Witch of the West. Wicked also deals with many social issues, including tolerance of people who are not like us and the eternal struggle of good versus evil.

We are very pleased that the October 30th performance of this engagement of Wicked in Des Moines coincides exactly with the show’s 10th Anniversary on Broadway. In ten years, the North American and international companies of Wicked have cumulatively grossed more than $3.1 billion in ticket sales and have been seen by nearly 38 million people worldwide.

Des Moines Performing Arts operates the Des Moines Civic Center, the Temple Theater and the Stoner Theater. We also manage Cowles Commons, which is undergoing an $11 million renovation – scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2014. We are honored to present seven different live performance series, including the Willis Broadway Series. And, it’s theatergoers like you who make it possible to bring these entertainment options to Central Iowa. Thank you for your support, and please enjoy this performance of Wicked.

Jeff Chelesvig President & CEO Des Moines Performing Arts

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Dear friends, Welcome to the Des Moines Civic Center and to the Willis Broadway Series.

On behalf of the Board of Directors, please accept our sincere thanks to our loyal season ticket holders and to our donors whose generous gifts are the foundation for all we do. We truly appreciate your support.

In addition to the Willis Broadway Series, Des Moines Performing Arts presents The Dance Series, the Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Family Series, and three offerings within the Prairie Meadows Temple Theater Series – the Temple Comedy Series, Live at the Temple and Lunch Unplugged.

The staff and board take great pride in making our four venues performance homes for our entire community, including the Des Moines Symphony, StageWest Theatre Company and the SmartTalk Connected Conversations Series. To embrace our roots, we welcome local artists, dance studios, students and more onto our stages each year.

Des Moines Performing Arts is also a national leader in theater and arts education. More than 50,000 students attend curriculum-connected performances in our facilities each year. Teachers learn to incorporate the arts into traditional classroom topics. The new Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards are elevating and showcasing the work of high schools and their students.

As a non-profit organization, Des Moines Performing Arts requires your help to make all of this happen. We ask for your support as a donor and appreciate your help in creating a world-class performing arts center.

To learn more about attending any of our performances or about making a donation, please visit DesMoinesPerformingArts.org or call 515-246-2300.

Thank you for being here. Enjoy the show!

Thomas Brown Chair, Des Moines Performing Arts Board of Directors

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PREMIER PARTNERS for their support:

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Jonathan and Rosemary Parson Polk County Prairie Meadows Tom Press and Judge Donna Paulsen Principal Financial Group John Ruan Foundation Trust Mike Simonson Thomas E. Press and Donna L. Paulsen Jeffrey D. and Mary P. Stier UnityPoint Health - Des Moines Joe and Rhonda Watton Wells Fargo Douglas and Deborah West James and Ann Willer Angela M. Williams

welcome Once again the Willis Auto Campus is honored to provide title sponsorship to Des Moines Performing Arts’ main stage season in the form of the 2013 - 2014 Willis Broadway Series. We recognize the importance of this type of cultural enrichment and appreciate the vitality it brings to our community.

It is our privilege, through our partnership with Des Moines Performing Arts, to help bring world class productions like WICKED to Central Iowa.

ENJOY THE SHOW! — Rich Willis, President

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DES MOINES CIVIC CENTER A Des Moines Performing Arts Theater Jeff Chelesvig, President & CEO

Marc Platt Universal Pictures The Araca Group Jon B. Platt and

David Stone present

Music and Lyrics

Book

Stephen Schwartz

Winnie Holzman

Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire Starring

Jennifer DiNoia Hayley Podschun

Emily Behny John Hillner David Nathan Perlow Alex Wyse

Todd Anderson Kerry Blanchard Jane Brockman Lindsey Brett Carothers Bridie Carroll Lilli Cooper Hayley Ann Dorling Michael Drolet Peter C. Ermides Ryan Patrick Farrell Kelly D. Felthous Tess Ferrell Dominic Giudici Lauren Haughton Zach Hensler Joel Ingram Ryan Jackson Kevin Jordan Becca Kloha Kelly Lafarga Allison Leo Lauren Linville Dashi’ Mitchell Amy Quanbeck Jay Reynolds Jr. Wayne Schroder Jonathan Shew Justin Wirick and

Kathy Fitzgerald

Settings

Costumes

Eugene Lee Elaine J. McCarthy

Music Arrangements

Associate Set Designer

Edward Pierce

Casting

Telsey + Company Craig Burns, CSA

Tony Meola

Production Supervisor

Technical Supervisor

Tom Watson

Alex Lacamoire & Stephen Oremus

Jake Bell

Dance Arrangements

Music Coordinator

Jason Sherbundy James Lynn Abbott Michael Keller

Special Effects

David O’Brien

Thom Widmann

Music Director

Chic Silber

Production Stage Manager

Sound

Kenneth Posner

Wigs & Hair

Lighting

Susan Hilferty

Projections

Walker Jones

Associate Choreographer

Associate Director

Corinne McFadden Herrera Lisa Leguillou Press

Phillip Aleman

General Management

321 Theatrical Management

Orchestrations

William David Brohn Music Supervisor

Stephen Oremus Musical Staging by

Wayne Cilento Directed by

Joe Mantello

Grammy Award-Winning Cast Recording on Decca Broadway

October 30 - November 10, 2013 PRESENTED BY DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS 13

Executive Producers

Marcia Goldberg & Nina Essman

CAST (in order of appearance) Glinda...................................................................................................................Hayley Podschun Witch’s Father........................................................................................................ Wayne Schroder Witch’s Mother................................................................................................... Kerry Blanchard Midwife.....................................................................................................................Jane Brockman Elphaba.....................................................................................................................Jennifer DiNoia Nessarose........................................................................................................................ Emily Behny Boq...................................................................................................................................... Alex Wyse Madame Morrible............................................................................................... Kathy Fitzgerald Doctor Dillamond.......................................................................................................... John Hillner Fiyero...........................................................................................................David Nathan Perlow Ozian Official......................................................................................................... Wayne Schroder The Wonderful Wizard of Oz........................................................................................Walker Jones Chistery.................................................................................................................... Dashi’ Mitchell Monkeys, Students, Denizens of the Emerald City, Palace Guards and Other Citizens of Oz............................................................ Kerry Blanchard, Jane Brockman, Lindsey Brett Carothers, Bridie Carroll, Lilli Cooper, Hayley Ann Dorling, Michael Drolet, Ryan Patrick Farrell, Kelly D. Felthous, Zach Hensler, Joel Ingram, LAUREN LINVILLE, Amy Quanbeck, Jay Reynolds Jr., Jonathan shew, Justin Wirick

STANDBy FOR ELPHABA Alyssa Fox UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.

Understudy for Elphaba—Lilli Cooper; for Glinda—Lindsey Brett Carothers, Kelly D. Felthous; for Fiyero—Joel Ingram, Jonathan Shew; for The Wizard and Dr. Dillamond—Peter C. Ermides, Wayne Schroder; for Madame Morrible—Jane Brockman, Bridie Carroll; for Boq—Michael Drolet, Jay Reynolds Jr.; for Nessarose—Kelly D. Felthous, Tess Ferrell, Lauren Haughton; for Chistery—Todd Anderson, Ryan Patrick Farrell, Dominic Giudici, Kevin Jordan, Ryan Jackson; for Witch’s Father and Ozian Official—Peter C. Ermides, Joel Ingram SWINGS Todd Anderson, Peter C. Ermides, Lauren Haughton, Tess Ferrell, Ryan Jackson, Kevin Jordan, Becca Kloha, Kelly Lafarga Dance Captains/Swings Dominic Giudici, Allison Leo There will be one 15-minute Intermission.

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MUSICAL NUMBERS Act I “No One Mourns the Wicked”................................................................ Glinda and Citizens of Oz “Dear Old Shiz”.................................................................................................................. Students “The Wizard and I”..............................................................................................Morrible, Elphaba “What Is This Feeling?”...................................................................Galinda, Elphaba and Students “Something Bad”.................................................................................. Dr. Dillamond and Elphaba “Dancing Through Life”.............................. Fiyero, Galinda, Boq, Nessarose, Elphaba and Students “Popular”...............................................................................................................................Galinda “I’m Not That Girl”............................................................................................................. Elphaba “One Short Day”..............................................Elphaba, Glinda and Denizens of the Emerald City “A Sentimental Man”..................................................................................................... The Wizard “Defying Gravity”.......................................................Elphaba, Glinda, Guards and Citizens of Oz Act II “No One Mourns the Wicked” (reprise).................................................................... Citizens of Oz “Thank Goodness”.................................................................. Glinda, Morrible and Citizens of Oz “The Wicked Witch of the East”........................................................ Elphaba, Nessarose and Boq “Wonderful”.............................................................................................. The Wizard and Elphaba “I’m Not That Girl” (reprise)................................................................................................. Glinda “As Long As You’re Mine”...............................................................................Elphaba and Fiyero “No Good Deed”.................................................................................................................. Elphaba “March of the Witch Hunters”.....................................................................Boq and Citizens of Oz “For Good”........................................................................................................ Glinda and Elphaba “Finale”........................................................................................................................................ All Traveling ORCHESTRA Conductor—Jason Sherbundy Associate Conductor/Keyboard 2—Flint Hawes Keyboard 1—Phillip Kirchman Keyboard 3—Jay Atwood Guitars—Dave Boguslaw Drums—Romano DiNillo The Wicked touring musicians welcome nine local musicians who will be playing at all performances in Des Moines.

Local Orchestra Contractor, Des Moines Performing Arts—Harold Jansen Musicians: Reed 1—Sonia Giles French Horn—Bret Seebeck Keyboard 4—Sonya Siebert Reed 2—Jillian Camwell Trumpet 1—Andy Classen Bass—Gary Palmer Reed 3—Clarence Padilla Trombone—Grady McGrannahan Keyboard Sub—Jason Danielson Percussion—Mark Dorr

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Walker Jones (The Wizard) is delighted to join this amazing phenomenon of Wicked.

NYC: Scapin with Stanley Tucci (CSC), Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Daniel Sullivan, Merchant of Venice, Henry VI (NYSF).

Regional: ACT (Dramalogue Award), Portland Stage, Yale Rep, NJ Shakespeare Theatre and Tony Award-winning Shakespeare Theatre of D.C. Original cast album (with Stephanie J. Block): Broadway by the Year 1925 at NYC’s famed Town Hall. As a musician, featured on over 20 albums. Film: The Imposters. Training: Boston University, Yale School of Drama.

Thanks to Robin and Lisa. Love to family and friends. Ongoing gratitude and dedications to Dot and SC. www.walkerjones.us.com.

Jennifer DiNoia (Elphaba) is thrilled and honored to join her fifth company of Wicked! She was most recently seen as Elphaba on Broadway and also in the Chicago, Australia and Seoul, Korea companies.

Credits include: We Will Rock You—original Las Vegas cast (u/s Scaramouche) and Mamma Mia!—First national tour (u/s Ali).

Jennifer is also an aspiring voiceover artist.

Credits: Wisemom and the upcoming Fox animated film Epic. Thanks to all for helping make this dream come true! HUGE thanks to Richard Fisher at Abrams Artists, Craig Burns and Telsey + Co., Lisa Leguillou and the entire Wicked creative team, David Stone, MB and the incredibly wonderful Wicked fans. Special thanks to Mom, Dad, Lisa, Kelly, Rion and Eva!

EMILY BEHNY (Nessarose) is thrilled to be joining the cast of Wicked! National tours: Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Helen Hayes Nomination). Regional: Goodspeed’s Something’s Afoot (Hope u/s). B.A. Musical Theatre, Ball State University, 2010. Many thanks to Mom and Dad, Henderson Hogan Agency, Craig Burns/Telsey + Co. and her love Adam. Jeremiah 29:11.

Hayley Podschun (Glinda), originally from Kansas, is beyond thrilled to be touring with Wicked by bubble. She was recently seen on Broadway in the new musical, Chaplin, where she played Charlie’s first wife, Mildred Harris. Previous Broadway credits include: Anything Goes, Pal Joey, Sunday in the Park with George, Hairspray (as well as the first national tour) and The Sound of Music. OffBroadway: Julianne Moore’s Freckleface Strawberry (original Strawberry). TV/film: “Louie,” Hairspray (Tammy). Massive thanks to the entire Wicked team, Telsey + Co., her DBA ladies, Jane Seaman, the Chaplin family, and Miller-Marley. Mom and Dad…I did it! www.hayleypodschun.com @haypod22.

JOHN HILLNER (Dr. Dillamond) starred on Broadway as Georges in the Tony Awardwinning revival of La Cages aux Folles. Other Broadway: Mamma Mia!, Footloose, The Graduate, Company, Crazy For You. TV: “Seinfeld,” “Law and Order,” “Cold Case,” “Num3ers,” “Person of Interest.” Wife Wendy Waring: “The Wino Crossing” (HBO TV pilot). Daughter Amy: Priscilla, Queen of The Desert (national tour). Son Nick, 20: UConn artist, Florence. Son Jack, 14: Ultimate Frisbee athlete. John’s other passion: www. jmhwoodcraft.com.

KATHY FITZGERALD (Madame Morrible) is thrilled to be back in Wicked after being on Broadway as Madame Morrible for a year and a half. Other Broadway: Roz in 9 to 5 (Outer Critics nom.), Swingin’ on a Star (Drama Desk nom.), The Producers (Shirley Markowitz). Off Broadway: Doris in Damn Yankees (Encores), Disaster! (Triad), Donnybrook (Irish Rep.). Regional: Ruth in Pirates! (MUNY), Ma in Emmet Otter (Goodspeed), The Tempest, Twelfth Night, School for Wives, Search for Signs… TV/ film: “Smash,” “Mercy,” “One Life to Live,” The Producers, Our Idiot Brother, Next Three Days, “The Gregory Brothers.” Love to Roger and Hope.

David Nathan Perlow (Fiyero).

Broadway: La Cage Aux Folles. David is thrilled to return to the second national tour of Wicked. David, since completing his 2011 run as Fiyero, has devoted much of his time to directing plays and teaching acting and audition workshops in New York and around the country. To contact David about a workshop or individual coaching opportunity, please email davidperlowactingcoach@gmail.com. To say hi, visit David’s Fan Page on Facebook!

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST BRIDIE CARROLL (Ensemble, u/s Madame Morrible) is happy to rejoin the Wicked family. Last seen in Off-Broadway’s new musical Fat Camp. National tours: Grease (Jan). Regional: Grease, The Little Mermaid, High School Musical and Hairspray. Original Cast Recording: Thirteen Stories Down. B.F.A.: Boston Conservatory.

Thanks to Telsey + Co., Peter Strain & Assoc., family and friends.

ALEX WYSE (Boq) is thrilled to be a part of Wicked! NYC: Lysistrata Jones (Broadway, Transport Group), Bare (New World Stages), Triassic Parq (SoHo Playhouse), Mrs. Sharp (Playwrights Horizons), NYMF. Regional: Lost in Yonkers (Paper Mill), Academy (South Korea, Maltz Jupiter), Speech & Debate (Lyric Stage Co. of Boston). Film: X/Y (upcoming). TV: “Bored to Death,” “Nikki & Sara Live!” Thanks to Craig, Dustin and David! Follow @alexwyse.

Alyssa Fox (Standby for Elphaba) was previously in the San Francisco company as ensemble/Elphaba u/s, and is so happy to be joining the Wicked family again! Thanks to God, Telsey + Co., Professional Artists, family, friends, loves, and Kamiya dog for keeping me sane. For my Mamaw.

LILLI COOPER (Ensemble, u/s Elphaba).

Born and bred New Yorker, thrilled to be joining the Wicked family! Broadway: Spring Awakening. Most recently seen in NY Times’ Critic’s Pick: Independents (FringeNYC Encores). Thanks to Dominick, DBA and everyone at Telsey + Co! Twitter. com/LilliCooper.

TODD ANDERSON (Swing, u/s Chistery).

Broadway: A Chorus Line (u/s Zach, Mike, Al, Greg, Bobby), Sweet Charity, Boy From Oz. Off-Broadway: The Wild Party, Garden of Earthly Delights. Tours: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (u/s Freddy Benson), Tap Dogs.

HAYLEY ANN DORLING (Ensemble) grew up in Chino Hills, CA and began dancing at the age of 8. She later trained and performed with Mt. SAC and Entity Dance Company. She’s ecstatic to tour with Wicked and thanks everyone for believing in her.

KERRY BLANCHARD (Ensemble) is so happy to be a part of Wicked. Thanks to everyone at Wicked, Telsey and MSA. All my love to my wonderful family and amazing friends for their never ending support, love and laughter.

MICHAEL DROLET (Ensemble, u/s Boq). Broadway: Wicked. National Tours: Wicked—LA Cast (Boq), Saturday Night Fever (Vinnie). Regional: Peter Pan—Dorset Theatre Festival (Peter Pan), Of Mice and Men—Palace Theatre (Curley), Cyrano— Fulton Opera House. TV: “The Tonight Show.” BFA: University of the Arts.

Jane Brockman (Midwife, u/s Madame Morrible) is thrilled to join the Wicked family! Broadway: A Christmas Carol.

Tours: The Light in the Piazza, The Sound of Music. Off B’way and NY: The Kid, Kismet (Encores!), Kristina (Carnegie Hall/Royal Albert Hall), Camelot (Lincoln Center). Film/ TV: The Producers, “L&O: SVU,” “All My Children.” Love to my “Pair of Shews.”

PETER C. ERMIDES (Swing, u/s The Wizard, Doctor Dillamond, Witch’s Father, Ozian Official). Original Chicago company of Wicked. Broadway: The Who’s Tommy (Tommy), King David (King David cover).

Regional: Assassins (Zangara), A Chorus Line (Greg). He is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory of Music. Love to his family and friends for their support.

LINDSEY BRETT CAROTHERS (Ensemble, u/s Glinda) is thrilled to be joining this Wicked family! Broadway: Bring It On. Thanks to Craig, Andrew, Telsey + Co. and the Wicked team for this incredible opportunity! Love to family and friends for endless support. Pace MT’ 13. Twitter: @ the_real_lbc.

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TESS FERRELL (Swing, u/s Nessarose) is thrilled to join the Wicked family! National Tour: Jesus Christ Superstar. Regional credits: Annie (Star-to-Be) at TUTS & Theatre Aspen, Sound of Music (Liesl) and Les Misérables (Cosette u/s) at Tuacahn.

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Dominic Giudici (Dance Captain, Swing, u/s Chistery). Credits: Wicked 1st National Tour (Chistery), Radio City Christmas Spectacular and Disney World.

“Many thanks to my family, Grandma, Grandpa, The Harts, Linda, Telsey + Co., and Nicole.” Twitter: @DomJuice.

LAUREN HAUGHTON (Swing, u/s Nessarose). Broadway: Wicked. Off-Broadway: Fools In Love. Regional Favorites: Sammy with Leslie Bricusse (Old Globe Theatre), Turn of the Century with Tommy Tune (Goodman Theatre). B.F.A.: Musical Theatre, Syracuse University. Thanks to Mom, Dad, the Gillis family and The Mine. Je t’aime Michael.

ZACH HENSLER (Ensemble) is so grateful and thankful to be back in Wicked! “The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.”— J. H. Holmes Joel Ingram (Ensemble, u/s Fiyero, Witch’s Father, Ozian Official) is thrilled to be a

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST part of Wicked! Tour: Legally Blonde. Regional: Legally Blonde, Sweet Charity, Sunset Blvd, Tommy, Bye Bye Birdie. Much love and thanks to my family, friends and Telsey + Co.

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Tours: Cats, Dr. Dolittle, West Side Story.

Theater: Goodspeed, Walnut St., Portland Center Stage, Ford’s Theater, Paper Mill, T.U.T.S, K.C. Starlight, Sacramento Music Circus, Radio City, Westchester B’way, City Center Encores. B.F.A. MMC. Lovification: Telsey+Co., Wicked team, my A-list.

KELLY LAFARGA (Swing) feels honored to join Wicked. Film: Step Up 2: The Streets, Step Up 3D. TV: “Glee,” “Bones,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “DWTS.” Tours: Eve, Donnie Klang. Marymount Manhattan College. Thanks Mom, Nina, and Sasha for their endless love and support. Dad, I love and miss you always.

KEVIN JORDAN (Swing, u/s Chistery) is proud to be part of the Wicked family. Other credits include Altar Boyz (Mark); Cats (Skimbleshanks); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Schroeder); A Chorus Line (Swing).

B.F.A. from BYU. Love to family and friends.

ALLISON LEO (Dance Captain, Swing).

Wicked Broadway, first national tour, SF, Chicago; Aida Broadway, first national tour (Dance Captain); Rent (world tour). TV/film highlights: Winter’s Tale (Warner Bros.), A Christmas Carol (Disney), “Scrubs,” “Six Feet Under,” “AMAs,” Rent, Charlie’s Angels. Asst. Choreographer: “State of the Union” (Showtime), Aida (Japan), Lennon (Broadway) and “Ugly Betty” (ABC).

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST LAUREN LINVILLE (Ensemble) is overjoyed to be back on the Wicked stage. An OCU graduate, Lauren made her professional debut on the Civic Center Stage with Lyric Theatre. Other shows include: Radio City Christmas Spectacular (NYC), 42nd St. (Asia Tour) and Zelda: An American Love Story.

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STEPHEN SCHWARTZ (Music and Lyrics) has contributed music and/or lyrics to Godspell, Bernstein’s Mass, Pippin, The Magic Show, The Baker’s Wife, Working (which he also adapted and directed), Rags and Children of Eden. For films, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the scores for Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Enchanted and wrote the songs for the DreamWorks animated feature The Prince of Egypt. His first opera, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, was presented by New York City Opera in April, 2011. Defying Gravity, a book about his professional career, was recently published by Applause Books. Mr. Schwartz is the artistic director of the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshops and president of the Dramatists Guild. Awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a tiny handful of tennis trophies. He was recently inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. www.stephenschwartz.com.

DASHI’ MITCHELL (Chistery) was raised in Sacramento, CA and started professional dancing at the age of 8. He later trained at NCDC and Edges scholarship program.

Dashi’ is excited to return to Wicked after working on the show previously in Germany.

Amy Quanbeck (Ensemble) grew up in Plymouth, MN and graduated from University of California, Irvine with her B.F.A. in Dance Performance. She’s excited to join the Wicked family and make her professional musical theater debut! She thanks everyone for the support.

JAY REYNOLDS JR. (Ensemble, u/s Boq) is so excited to finally be in Oz. Regional: Avenue Q (Princeton), Bat Boy (Bat Boy) and A Chorus Line (Paul), directed by the “T&A” girl herself, Mitzi Hamilton. Very thankful for this opportunity! Graduate of Northwestern’s Theatre program.

WINNIE HOLZMAN (Book) received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award for Wicked. She created the memorable television drama “My So-Called Life” which starred Claire Danes. Holzman got her start writing for the acclaimed drama “thirtysomething” and later executive produced (again with Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick) “Once and Again.”

Other theatre work includes the musical Birds of Paradise (with composer David Evans) and a ten-minute play called Post-its: Notes on a Marriage which she wrote with her husband, actor Paul Dooley. Features include: ’Til There Was You. Also an actress, Ms. Holzman appeared in Jerry Maguire and as Larry’s wife’s therapist on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Most recently she teamed with her daughter, Savannah Dooley, to write and produce the new ABC Family series, “Huge.” She is a graduate of Princeton

WAYNE SCHRODER (Witch’s Father, Ozian Official, u/s The Wizard, Doctor Dillamond). Broadway: 9 to 5, A Christmas Carol. Tours: 9 to 5. Off-Broadway: Prince and the Pauper, Mimi le Duck. Film: The Producers the Musical, Brando, Welcome Home. Television: “Guiding Light,” “All My Children.” Concert: Kristina at Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London.

JONATHAN SHEW (Ensemble, u/s Fiyero) is thrilled to be a part of Wicked!

Off-Broadway: Voca People. Regional: Next To Normal (Gabe), All Shook Up (Chad).

Thanks to Telsey + Co. for this amazing opportunity! Love to my family across the U.S. and Brazil.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, an M.F.A. from Yale Drama School and three honorary Ph.Ds. Mr. Lee has won three Tony Awards for Bernstein’s Candide, Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and Wicked.

He is the production designer for NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Other New York theatre work includes The Pirate Queen, Alice in Wonderland, The Normal Heart, Agnes of God, Ragtime, Uncle Vanya, Ruby Sunrise and A Number. Film credits include Coppola’s Hammett, Huston’s Mr. North and Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street. Mr. Lee is an adjunct professor at Brown University and lives with his wife Brooke in Providence, where they raised their two sons.

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JOE MANTELLO (Director). Directing credits include I’ll Eat You Last with Bette Midler, Other Desert Cities, The Pride, Pal Joey, 9 to 5 the Musical, November, The Receptionist, The Ritz, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, Laugh Whore, Assassins (Tony Award), Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Design for Living, The Vagina Monologues, bash, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Proposals, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi, Mizlansky/ Zilinsky, Blue Window, God’s Heart, The Santaland Diaries, Snakebit, Three Hotels, Imagining Brad. Film: Love! Valour!

Compassion! As an actor: The Normal Heart (Tony nom.), Angels in America (Tony nom.) and The Baltimore Waltz. Recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout.

SUSAN HILFERTY (Costume Designer) has designed more than 300 productions for theatres across America and internationally.

Her directorial collaborators include Athol Fugard (set, costumes, co-director), Michael Mayer, James Lapine, Robert Falls, Robert Woodruff, Joe Mantello, JoAnne Akalaitis, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Des McAnuff, Sharon Ott, David Petrarca, Richard Nelson, Christopher Ashley, Kenny Leon, Laurie Anderson, Tony Kushner, Carole Rothman, Garry Hynes and Emily Mann. Recent work: Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera 2012/2013, Taylor Swift “Speak Now” World Tour 2011/2012.

Broadway: Wonderland, Sondheim on Sondheim, Spring Awakening (Tony nom.), Lestat (Tony nom.), Assassins, Into the Woods (Hewes Award, Tony nom.), Dirty BLONDE. She designs for opera, dance, film and TV and chairs Design at NYU/Tisch.

Her numerous awards include the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Wicked.

WAYNE CILENTO (Musical Staging).

Broadway: Sweet Charity (Tony nom.), Aida, The Who’s Tommy (Tony, Drama Desk, Astaire awards), How to Succeed…

(Tony nom.), Dream: The Johnny Mercer Musical (director/choreographer; Tony nom., Best Choreography), Jerry’s Girls, Baby (Tony nom.). West End: The Who’s Tommy (Olivier nom.). Other credits: Off-Broadway’s A Hot Minute and Angry Housewives, national tour of Spirit, …

Forum at La Jolla (San Diego Drama Critics and Drama-Logue awards). Performer credits: A Chorus Line (Mike, original cast), The Act, Seesaw, Perfectly Frank, Irene, Big Deal, Rachel Lily Rosenblum and Dancin’ (Tony nom.). He has done musical staging for Liza Minnelli, Barry Manilow, Chita Rivera, Billy Joel, Donna Summer and Pete Townshend.

KENNETH POSNER (Lighting Designer) has more than 40 Broadway play and musical theatre credits. He designs extensively off-Broadway and for resident theatres throughout the United States as well as internationally. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards. Broadway: Cinderella, Kinky Boots, Pippin, The Merchant of Venice, The Royal Family, The Coast of

EUGENE LEE (Scenic Designer) has been resident designer at Trinity Rep since 1967.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Utopia—Shipwrecked, Wicked, Hairspray, 9 to 5, Catch Me If You Can, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Homecoming, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, Charlie Brown, The Frogs, Little Women, The Goat, Uncle Vanya, The Little Foxes and The Rose Tattoo. Opera credits include designs for the New York City Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Kenneth was the recipient of the 2003 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design.

TONY MEOLA (Sound Designer).

Broadway: Lysistrata Jones (associate producer as well as sound design); Pal Joey; The Ritz; Laugh Whore; Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Footloose; The Lion King (Drama Desk Award); The Sound of Music; A Christmas Carol (MSG), Steel Pier; Forum; The King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She

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London: Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; and Anything Goes.

National and international: The Lion King, Les Misérables, Mozart, Der Gloeckner von Notre Dame. Tony is a graduate of Ithaca College’s Department of Theatre Arts.

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and The Thing About Men. Regional designs include Distracted (set and projection), Limonade tous les Jours, Fran’s Bed, Once in a Lifetime, Cobb, and Hair. She received an Eddy Award in 2003.

TOM WATSON (Hair and Wig Design) is head of the wig and makeup department at the Me t r o p o l i t a n O p era . H e h as designed wigs for more than 50 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs include On a Clear Day…; How to Succeed…; Wonderland; House of Blue Leaves; Born Yesterday; The Addams Family; Million Dollar Quartet; Rock of Ages; Promises, Promises; Elling; South Pacific; Sondheim on Sondheim; A View from the Bridge; and Sunday in the Park with George.

WILLIAM DAVID BROHN (Orchestra­ tions) received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Ragtime. Other credits include Mary Poppins, Curtains, Miss Saigon, The Secret Garden, Show Boat, Crazy for You, Carousel, Sweet Smell of Success, Oklahoma! (B’way); Mary Poppins, Oliver!, My Fair Lady, South Pacific (London) and Betty Blue Eyes. He has provided arrangements for Marilyn Horne, James Galway, Placido Domingo and Joshua Bell’s recording on Sony Classical of Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra.

JOE DULUDE II (Makeup Designer).

Makeup Designer for Wicked productions worldwide. Broadway: Follies, The Normal Heart, Catch Me If You Can, Elf, Lend Me A Tenor, Grease, The Wedding Singer, Assassins, Into the Woods (key makeup Vanessa Williams). Film and Television: E!, Style, Lifetime, PBS, “Access Hollywood.”

Print: Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Vibe, Rolling Stone.

T hom W idmann ( P r o d u c t i o n Supervisor). Ten productions for Lincoln Center Theater including The Light in the Piazza, The Frogs and Contact. Other credits: The Sound of Music, The King and I, Amy’s View, Skylight and the nat’l tour of An Inspector Calls. Graduate of SUNY Purchase. Adjunct faculty, Fordham University.

ALEX LACAMOIRE (Music Arrange­ ments) is the Music Supervisor for In the Heights, which won him the 2008 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and a 2008 Grammy Award for producing the cast album. Other Broadway credits as Music Director, Arranger, and/or Orchestrator: 9 To 5, High Fidelity and Legally Blonde.

Other favorite projects: Bat Boy: The Musical (off-B’way), the 2001 national tour of Godspell, Captain Louie and The Wiz (City Center Encores!). Love to Mom, Dad, Little Sis and Ileana.

JAKE BELL (Technical Supervisor) has been a stage manager and technical production manager on Broadway for more than 25 years. Broadway, national and international credits include The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Miss Saigon, Swan Lake, Dreamgirls, Cats, Chess.

JASON SHERBUNDY (Music Director/ Conductor). Broadway: Catch Me (Cast Recording), Porgy and Bess, Chicago, Anything Goes. National tours: Lion King, 101 Dalmatians. SF: Spelling Bee; Caroline, or Change, A Chorus Line. TV: “Smash.”

STEPHEN OREMUS (Music Supervisor/ Arranger). Broadway: Received the 28

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MICHAEL KELLER (Music Coordinator).

Music Coordination for The Book of Mormon, The Addams Family, Memphis, Billy Elliot, Wicked, Mamma Mia, The Lion King, Barbra Streisand Concerts (1994/2001/2006/2007). Life is complete with wife Pamela Sousa, son Zachary and daughter Alexis.

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LISA LEGUILLOU (Associate Director) worked with Joe Mantello on Frankie and Johnny…, Take Me Out and The Vagina Monologues. She appeared in eight Broadway shows; on TV in “Sex and the City,” “NYPD Blue” and “NY Undercover;” and in the films Changing Lanes, Center Stage, Everyone Says I Love You and HBO’s “Angels in America.”

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As director: Shrek (national tour). As associate director: How to Succeed in Business…; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Promises, Promises; Dogfight. Graduate of The University of Michigan (Directing Program).

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EDWARD PIERCE (Associate Scenic Designer) operates a NYC-based design studio specializing in the production design of Broadway, touring and international stage productions. With his team of artists,

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CHIC SILBER (Special Effects). Broadway: Sherlock Holmes; Edward Gorey’s Dracula; The Elephant Man; Amadeus; Nicholas Nickleby; Tintypes; Working; The Dresser; Alice in Wonderland; Grand Hotel; Piaf; Orpheus Descending; Moon Over Buffalo; Footloose; The Civil War; Aida; Kiss Me, Kate; Annie Get Your Gun; Dance of Death; Brooklyn; La Cage aux Folles; Godspell.

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COLLEEN DANAHER (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be on her first tour with her dear friend and colleague David O’Brien.

Broadway: Godspell, Wonderland, South Pacific, Lend Me a Tenor, Grease, Grey Gardens. Regional: Many productions over several years at the Vineyard Playhouse in beautiful Martha’s Vineyard, MA. <3 to LBB. MATT SCHREIBER (Assistant Stage Manager) is elated to be joining the Wicked family. Broadway: The Performers, Godspell, In the Heights, Avenue Q. National tours: In the Heights (first national), Mamma Mia! (North American tour), Memphis (first national).

GREGORY MAGUIRE ( Author of Original Novel) published a dozen novels for children before writing his first adult novel, Wicked. A devotee of children’s fantasy, Maguire’s subsequent novels for adults are variations-on-a-theme: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister considers Cinderella as a 17th-century maid from Harlem; Lost evokes

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321 THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT ( General Management) is currently represented by Peter and the Starcatcher.

Nina Essman, Nancy Nagel Gibbs, and Marcia Goldberg’s past Broadway, OffBroadway, and national tour management credits include Bring It On: The Musical; Sister Act; Traces; Next To Normal; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; and Bat Boy: The Musical. Additional individual productions include The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Café; The Vagina Monologues; The Santaland Diaries; and The Diary of Anne Frank.

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UNIVERSAL STAGE PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is the live-theatre division of the world-famous motion picture studio, currently represented by the record-breaking phenomenon Wicked, which has been the #1 show on Broadway for nine consecutive years, and the critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, which won ten Tony Awards including Best Musical.

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JON B. PLATT (Producer). Tony Awards: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Pulitzer Prize), Perestroika, Clybourne Park (Pulitzer Prize), Copenhagen, God of Carnage, The Book of Mormon, Death of a Salesman. Tony Award nominations: Wicked; Peter Pan; The Diary of Anne Frank; Hello, Dolly!; The Lonesome West; You’re Welcome America; Man of La Mancha; A View From the Bridge; The Motherf**cker With the Hat; Jerusalem; Venus in Fur; Nice Work If You Can Get It. Off-Broadway: C*ck. Tours: Wicked, The Book of Mormon. 2012 Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing.

DAVID STONE (Producer) is currently represented around the world by Wicked.

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Interschool medley at the 2012-2013 Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards Showcase.

For Nevada High School theater director Karen Niblock, the impact on her students of the inaugural Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards last season was three-fold.

The Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards recently kicked off its second season by accepting applications from high schools within a 90-mile radius of Des Moines Performing Arts. As of this writing, 16 high schools have applied to the program. In

“First, my students recognized their abilities

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and desired to move forward in their journeys toward mastery in musical theater. Second, there was an immediate bonding between students of various schools and the sense of camaraderie they experienced was powerful in helping them develop as performers. Third, my students had this amazing experience of being able to work with Broadway professionals who could help them finely tune their performances and challenge them to think outside the box and grow both personally and professionally.”

“It’s incredible to see the growth of the program in such a short amount of time,” said Des Moines Performing Arts Education Manager Karoline Myers. “Our goal is to create visibility and support for high school musical theater programs, as well as emphasize the importance of arts education. We’re excited for the new season and the positive impact it will have on young musical theater artists in our state.”

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Bridget Johnston and Kellen Schrimper stand in front of the Minskoff Theater, home of The Lion King on Broadway. There, they spent a week working with Broadway professionals at the National High School Musical Theater Awards.

Roosevelt High School Students perform an excerpt from Chicago.

An Experience They’ll Never Forget

of adjudicators will review each participating

Bridget Johnston and Kellen Schrimper, both from Waukee High School, had a blast on Broadway last summer. As the first-ever Triple Threat Award winners, they represented Iowa at the National High School Musical Theater Awards in New York City, June 26 – July 2, 2013.

high school’s production and provide valuable feedback to the students and theater directors. Based on the adjudicators’ feedback, schools will receive honors for their achievements in categories ranging

“Going to New York City for the National High School Musical Theater Awards absolutely changed my life. I learned so many things that I may never have gotten to otherwise, and I can say I performed on a Broadway stage. That’s unbelievable!”

– Bridget Johnston

from choreography, design, supporting performer, lead performer and overall musical production. The recognition is given at the end of the year with a celebratory event, the Awards Showcase.

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“The Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards program was an incredible start to what I hope will be a long career as a performer.

The experience working with industry professionals and performing on Broadway for the Jimmy Awards was an eye-opener that helped confirm my unequalled passion for singing and performing. I am exceedingly grateful for the opportunity provided by the IHSMTA program.”

– Kellen Schrimper

2014 at the Des Moines Civic Center, will be a professionally produced event where students will perform excerpts from their musical productions, as well as interschool medleys.

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Niblock is excited for the new season ahead. “Nevada High School will be a part of the program again and every year from here on out.”

For more information about the Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards, visit DesMoinesPerformingArts.org.

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across the street from the Des Moines Civic

continuous corporate sponsor of the arts.

Center. Their legacy continues with the

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Nollen Lobby.

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Prairie Meadows touches almost every facet of Des Moines Performing Arts as a long-time supporter of the Applause Series for school audiences. Additionally, they are a lead donor to multiple capital campaigns and the title sponsor of our Temple Theater programs.

Des Moines Performing Arts looks forward to many years of friends and families meeting in the Nollen Lobby and the Prairie Meadows Lobby.

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Susan Hilferty employs the artistry of costume design to illuminate the unknown yet somehow familiar world of Wicked

(l–r) Hayley Podschun as Glinda and Jennifer DiNoia as Elphaba in a scene from the national tour of Wicked. Photo by Joan Marcus.

A Wicked Good

usan Hilferty, the Tony Award– friendship in a perilous Oz filled with winning costume designer political corruption and intolerance – a for the blockbuster musical place strikingly familiar on this side of Wicked, describes herself as a the rainbow. storyteller. “I make the world Except, as another legendary real,” she says. character once said, we’re not in Kansas The best costume designers anymore – or anywhere on earth, for assist in reflecting and revealing that matter. So it was up to Hilferty character and emotions, creating a to create what she calls a “parallel sense of time and place, and enhancing universe,” with costumes that are at and illuminating the script. Hilferty is once familiar but unlike anything we one of the best, and her 200 costumes know. “This is a show in which I was for Wicked, together with Eugene Lee’s Susan Hilferty able to invent everything, including the ingenious set and Kenneth Posner’s animals,” says Hilferty. “If you’re going striking lighting, bring to life the world envisioned to invent a world, you have to create rules for the

by Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics), Winnie world. I chose to look back to the time that the Holzman (book) and director Joe Mantello. book was written, and then reflect our own time.

Based on Gregory Maguire’s acclaimed novel, So I rooted the design in the Edwardian era, but I let Wicked upends expectations as it reveals the Oz go off on a different tangent. Animals talk. We heretofore-untold story of the two legendary recognize things, but it’s still a very strange place.” witches in the Land of Oz. The musical tells the tale Hilferty drew inspiration from three sources: the of an intelligent, passionate, misunderstood young original illustrations by W.W. Denslow for L. Frank girl with emerald-green skin named Elphaba, and Baum’s Oz books, Maguire’s novel and the show’s how she becomes the notorious Wicked Witch of score and libretto. She speaks often of “riffs” when the West. Intricately entwined with her journey is discussing the costumes for the denizens of Oz and that of her college roommate, the beautiful, blonde, Emerald City. For the chase scene that opens the popular and profoundly self-absorbed Glinda. show, she played with the idea of a 1930s mob, all Their instant animosity evolves into an unlikely in trench coats. “But everything is deconstructed.

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Some of Hifferty’s dazzling costume designs for Wicked.

None of the sleeves are alike, sometimes there are three sleeves, or a coat is made of all collars,” she says. “They’re all deformed and misshaped.” The dazzling costumes in Emerald City began with the idea of dressy clothes. “A lot of times, I designed the costume twice. First I’d design it as if it was an Edwardian costume, and then I’d twist it on an axis.

There are all these spirals and big shoulders and more bustles than you can imagine. But the bustle might be on the side or the shoulder. I don’t think there’s anything that has an even hem.”

The costumes for Glinda and Elphaba reflect who they are and who they become. When we first meet Glinda, she’s all high-fashion style and little substance. Elphaba, by contrast, has one outfit: a bland jumper, turtleneck sweater and oversized blazer, topped off by a cap and glasses. “The costume makes her look like a scholar, but she is also hiding her greenness,” says Hilferty. “She’s as covered as she can be. She wears boots, because I wanted her to be weighted. I knew that when she became her most iconic, she should be connected to the earth. There’s a sense of solidity to her.

Glinda ultimately needed to reflect the sky: light, air, stars, clouds. All the surfaces of her clothes are iridescent. Her tiara has starbursts.

Her skirt looks like a cloud. She sparkles.

The dress represents her evolution. She becomes good, and in the end, she earns the clothes she’s wearing.”

Glinda’s “good witch” white dress may be the most memorable, but Hilferty is partial to Elphaba’s “bad witch” black dress. “I’m not a sparkly girl myself, and I actually think Elphaba’s dress is more beautiful. It accentuates her outer and inner beauty in a non self-conscious way. It also reflects power. The bodice is cut like a corselet and is made of small strips of velvets and _______________________________________________

laces that are quilted together. There are about 15 or 20 different fabrics in the skirt alone.”

Perhaps the character whose evolution is most noticeably mirrored in her clothes is Madame Morrible. At the outset, she appears benign, and she’s first seen wearing a rust dress that makes her seem a bit like a nutty professor. But as her ambition grows, her look changes radically. “You see her being revealed for her wickedness,” says Hilferty. “For Morrible, I looked at pictures of Queen Elizabeth I, whose clothes made her look like something from another planet. Her hair was pushed way back on her forehead. That’s how Morrible appears at the end. Her forehead is tight and hard. The front of her bodice has so much beading on it that it’s like a plate of armor. She has high collars that cut off her head, so that her face seems to be pushed forward on a plate.”

The costumes for Wicked look nothing like Adrian’s designs for MGM’s The Wizard of Oz, and that is very deliberate.

But there is one costume in the show that is a kind of gesture to the movie.

“It’s my own little joke,” says Hilferty.

“Everything’s in color, but the wizard is in black and white.”

John Hillner in a scene from the national tour of Wicked.

Photo by Joan Marcus.

Reprinted from Playbill® Magazine, July 2008. PLAYBILL® is a registered trademark of Playbill Incorporated, N.Y.C. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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House Managers: Kerry George Shirley Kleywegt * Doug Kouba Evonne Kouba Sharon Montgomery Cynde Pool * Shirley Ramirez Sandra Sapp Marion Singleton *Temple Theater House Managers

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Late seating will be accommodated by House Staff at the earliest appropriate time. Pay attention to lobby chimes, which are sounded five minutes before the show begins, as well as after intermission.

LISTENING DEVICES

Listening devices are available for use at no charge at the Nollen and Prairie Meadows Lobby Guest Services Counters.

ATM

An ATM is located in the Ticket Office Lobby.

AUDIO DESCRIPTION

The Iowa Radio Reading Information Service for the Blind and Print Handicapped, Inc. (IRIS) offers audio description services for select performances.

Call (515) 246-2300 to reserve a listening device.

LOST ITEMS

Lost items may be reported or claimed at the Nollen Lobby Guest Services Counter during an event. After an event, please contact our Ticket Office at (515) 2462300 or stop by Monday through Friday, 9 am. to 5 p.m.

Items are kept for 30 days.

BINOCULARS

Binoculars are available for rent at the Nollen and Prairie Meadows Lobby Guest Services Counters for $5.

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

If you have a medical need, please notify the House Staff.

Medical services are provided by UnityPoint Health Des Moines in the Prairie Meadows Lobby.

BRAILLE AND LARGE PRINT

Playbills for most Broadway productions are available in Braille at the Nollen and Prairie Meadows Lobby Guest Services Counters, compliments of the lowa Department of the Blind. Large print playbills are also generally available.

PRE-ORDERING DRINKS

Avoid the line at intermission by ordering your drink ahead of time. Order and pay at any open bar before the performance. Pick your drink up at the Nollen or Prairie Meadows Lobby Guest Services Counter during intermission.

CAMERAS

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SPECIAL SEATING NEEDS

Please turn your cell phone off or set it to the silent mode. Please also refrain from text messaging and using your phone as a light source during the performance.

Seating is available for all performances for a variety of accessibility requirements (including wheelchair, motorized cart, difficulty with stairs and sight impairment).

Please call the Ticket Office at (515) 246-2300.

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Everyone must have a ticket, regardless of age. A limited number of booster seats are available at the Nollen and Prairie Meadows Lobby Guest Services Counters.

The use of tobacco products is not allowed in the Des Moines Civic Center or within 15 feet of any entrance.

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COAT/ITEM CHECK

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Bottled water is permitted in the Main Hall during all performances. Souvenir cups with lids are allowed in the Main Hall during designated performances. No other food or drink is allowed in the theater.

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