CANCELED: Wicked

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Joan Marcus

Mariand Torres and Erin Mackey in the touring production of "Wicked."

The hit Broadway musical turns the world of The Wizard of Oz upside down. This magical version of the classic movie provides a backstory that explains how misunderstood the Wicked Witch of the West (the bookish and brave Elphaba) has been all this time, and the real reason she was desperate to get those ruby slippers back. Visit Munchkinland and meet Glinda the Good Witch when she was just a beautiful blonde sharing a dorm room with the weird new girl with green skin, her unlikely best friend. The tuneful score includes “Defying Gravity,” “Popular” and “For Good.” Through March 29.

press release: Public Health Madison & Dane County issued a countywide directive “to stop mass gatherings of 250 or more people to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, effective at 5:00 pm on Friday, March 13. This order will continue until further notice, or until it is rescinded, superseded, or amended in writing by the Public Health Office.”

 Complying with that directive, Overture Center is closing its doors and canceling all performances and events effective immediately. 

All remaining performances of WICKED occurring March 13 -29, 2020 are canceled. Existing ticket holders will have priority access to purchase tickets to WICKED when we reschedule this engagement.

All other performances and events at Overture Center are canceled through Monday, April 13.

Our team will automatically refund your WICKED ticket purchase(s) in full. Expect the refund to post to your account by the end of March.

For WICKED and all performances through April 13, guests who paid for their tickets with cash or check will receive a refund check via mail. Guests who paid with a gift certificate will receive a new gift certificate, via mail. If you have questions, or want to apply the refund to a different debit or credit card than the one used for the original purchase,  please email tickets@overture.org.

Refunds are only available for tickets purchased directly through Overture Center. We are not responsible for the refund practices of secondary ticket brokers (e.g., StubHub, Vivid Seats, etc.) If the tickets were transferred or forwarded to you, the refund will be applied to the credit or debit card used for the original purchase.

If you have a ticket for one of Overture’s resident organizations for an upcoming affected event, you will be contacted directly by the organization regarding your options. Our resident organizations are Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Children’s Theater of Madison, Forward Theater Company, Kanopy Dance Company, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Madison Ballet, Madison Opera, Madison Symphony Orchestra, James Watrous Gallery and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra.

We will continue to monitor the situation as it evolves to ensure the health and well-being of our guests, artists and staff before anything else. We will work to reschedule events and keep ticket holders posted on specific shows. We appreciate your patience as we navigate this process.

Our building doors will be locked, and most of our employees will be working from home.

We look forward to welcoming you back soon to this treasured community gathering space where you can safely enjoy extraordinary experiences for all.

Thank you for your patience and continued support.

WICKED, Madison’s most popular musical, returns to Overture Center for the Arts on Wednesday, March 11 through Sunday, March 29.

The Broadway sensation WICKED looks at what happened in the Land of Oz… but from a different angle. Long before Dorothy arrives, there is another young woman, born with emerald-green skin, who is smart, fiery, misunderstood and possessing an extraordinary talent. When she meets a bubbly blonde who is exceptionally popular, their initial rivalry turns into the unlikeliest of friendships… until the world decides to call one “good” and the other one “wicked.” 

With a thrilling score that includes the hits “Defying Gravity,” “Popular” and “For Good,” WICKED has been hailed by The New York Times as “the defining musical of the decade” and by Time Magazine as “a magical Broadway musical with brains, heart and courage.”

Having recently celebrated its 16^th anniversary on Broadway, WICKED is the winner of more than 100 international awards, including the Grammy Award and three Tony Awards. WICKED has been performed in over 100 cities in 16 countries around the world (U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, Germany, Holland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, the Philippines, Mexico, Brazil, Switzerland and China) and has thus far been translated into six languages: Japanese, German, Dutch, Spanish, Korean and Portuguese. WICKED has amassed nearly $5 billion in global sales and has been seen by over 60 million people worldwide.

Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, WICKED has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and a book by Winnie Holzman.  The production is directed by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello with musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento. WICKED is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Stage Productions, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.

Meet the Artists: Ticketholders are invited to Meet the Artists, included with the ticket price, on Thursday, March 12. Stay after the show for a brief, informal Q&A session in the theater with the artists.

For more information about WICKED, please visit www.WickedTheMusical.com.

Follow WICKED on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Tickets for WICKED’s return engagement are available here.

Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wis., features seven state-of-the-art performance spaces and five galleries where national and international touring artists, 10 resident companies and hundreds of local artists engage people in nearly 700,000 educational and artistic experience each year. With the vision to provide “Extraordinary Experiences for All,” Overture’s mission is to support and elevate our community’s creative culture, economy and quality of life through the arts. overture.org