{"id":4927,"date":"2023-10-25T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2023-10-09T15:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T19:57:47","slug":"arachnophonia-wicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2023\/10\/arachnophonia-wicked\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: Wicked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student assistant Isaac (class of 2025) and features the piano\/vocal selections score for the 2003 musical Wicked<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks, Isaac!<\/em><\/p>\n

Wicked<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Wicked\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I remember my mom waking me up to go watch my first musical in the downtown of my city, much to my chagrin. I never showed an interest in musicals\u2013\u2013really, ever\u2013\u2013so spending the first few hours of my weekend attending a show about a movie<\/a> I\u2019d seen a billion times was never on the top of my bucket list. <\/p>\n

Finding our seats in the dark and cramped theater after buying $8 bottles of water just added to my annoyance, especially after finding out that ushers would be watching vigilantly for phone users, so I couldn\u2019t even resort to that. And then the show started. Immediately, I knew this was definitely NOT The Wizard of Oz<\/a><\/em> I\u2019d grown up watching. The dynamic expressions, the mercurial lighting, and the most handsome of musical notes filled every corner of my surroundings: I smiled, I relented. <\/p>\n

The cast of Wicked<\/a><\/em>, from the verdant \u201cvillain\u201d of the story to the anthropomorphic bat-monkey-things that legitimately frightened me, were equal in energy to the score that is still stuck in my head. \u201cAre musicals my new thing?\u201d I thought to myself. Maybe not fully. Was I puerile to dismiss them in their entirety? Definitely. <\/p>\n

So if you haven\u2019t, I would highly recommend watching Wicked<\/a><\/em>, it remains one of my favorite Saturday 12:10 pm\u2019s ever; if you can\u2019t attend a full show (they can be pretty popular), check out the score<\/a> and imagine yourself on the indelible yellow brick road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15223],"tags":[61217,230860,93039,227203,92906,15312,15309,191244,191246,38013,38012,230907],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection","tag-arachnophonia","tag-arachnophonia-23-24","tag-broadway-musicals","tag-isaac","tag-musical","tag-musical-theater","tag-musicals","tag-piano-vocal-selections","tag-scores","tag-stephen-schwartz","tag-wicked","tag-winnie-holzman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-1ht","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}