The very first time Andy met my parents he was wearing a t-shirt that said ‘GET WICKED TONIGHT!‘ on it, in bold yellow letter across a blue background. In his defense, he didn’t anticipate meeting my parents that day. In my defense, I didn’t anticipate he would be wearing such a shirt ever. We both learned something that day. Tomorrow night, we are literally getting ‘Wicked’ again, as we take in an early showing of the eagerly-anticipated ‘Wicked’ movie.
It will be a proper date night for us, one that rekindles the very first time we saw the show in New York. It was November, about a week or two after it opened on Broadway, and its original stars Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel were both on. It was a magical moment, and in the ensuing years we’ve returned to the stage production several times.
Tomorrow night, the movie version directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande flies into theaters, and we’ll be there defying gravity with all the other fans.
