Wicked.

First post for a while, I know.

I've finally been accepted into UQ exchange hooray! So I now need to fill in more forms (because they're too lazy to share information. Strange, I know...) and get that off to UQabroad by Monday. Lame.

Went and saw Wicked (again!) last night - in Brisbane! Woo! Hooray for the Brisbane arts scene, being able to host such a major musical (they weren't going to come originally, so this is awesome for us).

It was pretty good - particularly the lead roles, which were characterised amazingly and sung (well, with the exception of the lady who couldn't sing but had a lead role). Bert Newton was wonderful (haha, get it?) as the Wizard - he brought so much life into the role.

There were a lot of irritating things about the production, however. Of note were the moments where the orchestra was scored for strings, but of course, all you had were tremolo keyboards, which were being played by pianists who didn't really care about the way tremolo strings sounded. The orchestra sounded really thin - there were parts missing from the full score, particularly a lot of brass chorale writing. There were lots of issues with the sound production - the whole cast were EQ'd incorrectly - you couldn't hear the chorus properly and the two leads were creating destructive interference with each other. Someone's being paid to make sure that things like that don't happen! FIX IT

Also, the flautist couldn't rhythm and couldn't tune his/her piccolo, meaning a lot of the high stuff was laggy and out of tune. Ahh well, I love being a music student.

The orchestra weren't credited anywhere, which was interesting. You'd think that they'd be treated at the same level as the sound production team, but, no...

But still, it made for a very very enjoyable night.