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WICKED ANNOUNCES LOTTERY FOR $25 SEATS - 9/8/2008


Each day, 2½ hours prior to show time, people who present themselves at the Box Office at Theater Square [655 Penn Avenue] will have their names placed in a lottery drum and then thirty minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of seats at $25 each, cash only. This lottery is available only in-person at the box office, with a limit of two tickets per person.

In addition to $25 lottery seats, a limited amount of tickets are still available throughout the engagement, but they are flying out the door! Complete performance schedule and information on how to purchase tickets is listed below. Best seats available for the 1 p.m. performance on Thursday, September 4.

WICKED is a new musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Disney’s Enchanted, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman (“My So Called Life,” “Once And Again” and “thirtysomething”) based on the 1995 best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire. The musical is directed by 2003 and 2004 Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Glengarry Glen Ross) and features musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who’s Tommy, How To Succeed…). WICKED, the untold story of the witches of Oz, is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.

Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One – born with emerald green skin – is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.

WICKED features set design by Tony Award winning Eugene Lee (Ragtime, Show Boat, Candide, Sweeney Todd), costume design by Tony winner Susan Hilferty (Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins), lighting design by Tony nominee Kenneth Posner (Tony Award winner for The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray) and sound design by Tony Meola (The Lion King, Man of La Mancha). Stephen Oremus is the show’s music director. Orchestrations are by William David Brohn, with dance arrangements by James Lynn Abbott.

The national tour of WICKED has “cast quite a spell” (Washington Post) throughout North America, breaking box office records in every city that it has played, including Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Boston to name a few.

WICKED, “Broadway’s biggest blockbuster” (The New York Times), began performances in New York on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 at The Gershwin Theatre and continues to be the top-grossing show on Broadway. WICKED is “good enough to run for a decade or two,” proclaims The Wall Street Journal. It’s “a cultural phenomenon,” exclaims Variety. “If every musical had the brain, the heart and the courage of WICKED, Broadway really would be a magical place,” states Time Magazine.

The Chicago company of WICKED took the stage on Friday, June 24, 2005 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, and the Los Angeles production of WICKED started performances at the Pantages Theatre on February 10, 2007.

There are currently four international productions of WICKED: a London production, which opened in September 2006 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre; a Japanese-language production, which opened on June 17, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan; a German-language production, which opened in Stuttgart on November 15, 2007; and an Australian production, which recently opened in Melbourne, Australia this July.

In Pittsburgh, WICKED will play Tuesday – Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday at 1:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. A 1 p.m. matinee will also be presented on Thursday, September 4. Ticket prices begin at $29.50. Premium tickets are also available. Tickets are available at The Box Office at Theater Square [655 Penn Avenue], through the Benedum Center phone room and online at www.pgharts.org. To charge tickets, call the Benedum Center phone room at 412-456-4800 (9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday). Orders for groups of twenty (20) or more may be placed by calling 412-471-6930.

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