Watching the Rain Fall

This really is quite sad, but I have become obsessed with Wicked. It all started Spring Break. But I’ll go further back. The summer after my senior year of High School, my then best friend and I went to New York City. Her grandparents live in Brooklyn and we stayed with them for a week and took the subway into Manhattan nearly everyday. We decided that we wanted to try to see Wicked, but lacking  a time machine or a butt-load of money we were left attempting to get tickets through the lottery, they were $50 tickets at the front. We never did get them. But bought the book, and read it on the plane. The next summer I was getting ready to go to England and Wicked came to Portland. I was going to be out of town during the performances (If I remember correctly we went to the Farm that week. And as I wouldn’t see any of my family for 9 months I needed to go). So I didn’t see it. But the following week was the Beaverton City Parade, and some woman by the name of Shoshana Bean was in it. We found out she had just played Elphaba in Wicked, and was from Beaverton.

Anyways jump to spring break. I had been hearing some of the songs from the musical and I had tried to fit together what I knew from the books with the songs and it wasn’t working so Kristin told me that she had downloaded a video of one of the performances of Wicked at the Gershwin. I watched. Then I listened to the music, and watched it again… you get the idea. It was Wicked Week! I friggin love that show. And I heard a rumor that it is coming back to Portland next March. Mommy is taking me, and Kristin will probably come. But I wish it ended there. If it ended there I might be considered sane. God help me.

No, as a few of you may have figured from my earlier entries, I get a little obsessed, a little singular. Anywho… I search on the internet for stuff… So I find out not only is Shoshana Bean from Portland she graduated from my High School. Her and Megan Hilty (From Bellevue, WA) were co-stars for about a year at the Gershwin, and actually requested that they get to perform the Pacific NW shows for the traveling show. And not only are they co-stars, they are friends, watching interviews or other performances they did, it is clear that they like each other and have a ton of fun together.  I find lots of videos… I’m obsessed its bad. I am going cold turkey on the internet crud (Great, now Kristin is going to hold me to it…). But I still want a copy of the soundtrack from Kristin (*Cough*).