NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED!!

Last Thursday, April 23rd, I finally got to get away from being a mommy and go downtown SLC to see the wonderful musical WICKED!! All I can say is OH. MY. WORD! I absolutely loved it! It was SO good!!

Some of the songs that I really liked were: The Wizard and I, What Is This Feeling?, Popular, Defying Gravity, For Good, and the finale of No One Mourns the Wicked!

And... I have something to confess...

I found out more passionately than before... I totally IDOLIZE ELPHABA!!!!! My one true dream of mine is to sing the song Defying Gravity just like her. And when I say her... I mean like the girl who I saw singing it which is Donna Vivino. She is SOOOO good!!!!!

I really did enjoy Katie Rose Clarke who played Glinda. She was very animated and she played the part very well! She kept the audience laughing.

There was something else that was pretty cool at the play. I saw President Monson there! I saw him getting out of his car and going into a side entrance. He was shaking hands with some people and then started to walk away. I, of course, yelled after him. I called him and said, "President Monson, we love you!" Yeah... it gets worse. I actually startled the poor prophet! As Lindsey puts it, "Great Bethany! Give him a heart attack!" You know, after I did that, it got me thinking. That poor man. He can't go anywhere without calling attention to himself. I feel bad now. I should probably call the church office building and tell them to apologize to him for me. Do you think they would really do that for me? Yeah... I didn't think so. Now I get to live with that guilt for the rest of my life. Well, when I catch up with him in the after life, I can apologize and say to him, "Remember that one time where that crazy annoying little girl scared you when you went to go see Wicked? Yeah... that was ME. Sorry about that!"

ANYWAY! BACK TO WICKED!

So, I have the soundtrack and I'm starting to listen to it more and I'm sure I'll have it memorized by next week. We'll see!