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"I'd rather see The Wizard of Oz 20 times more than ersatz show once," said the Times. "I enjoyed that very few ... the performance is generally terrible," was the verdict of the Independent. "More like a piece of industrial product than something that really touches the heart or mind," he told the Guardian.

When it opened in London in 2006, judging by the critics, the bad music seems to have been cursed. But five years later - which is celebrating its birthday on Tuesday - fills one of the largest theaters in London and took more than $ 145 million at the box office in the UK. Survived all the other musicals that opened the same year, during the next two months its four millionth visitor enters the lobby of the Apollo Theater greenish.

"I can only assume that Americans have played in all its nostalgic memories of The Wizard of Oz - [see] is clearly a rite of passage in the same way that income was from his predecessors' said Michael Billington, theater critic of The Guardian. "But that still does not explain the popularity in Britain mysterious."

The musical based on Gregory Maguire novel 1995 and opened on Broadway in 2003, invented at the origin of the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz L Frank Baum. One reason for its success is "the untold story point of view, which seemed to focus on the population," said Michael McCabe, executive producer of the British production. "It's massive love The Wizard of Oz, but the idea that everything I have heard a bit of imagination is not fired."

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In revisionist take, the wicked witch began life as a good, green-skinned evil spirit that was later explained, among other things, the terrible suffering injury and become a dissident of the regime of Oz. The objective of this production is the friendship between Elphaba female and poor, shallow Glinda, who later became the good witch in the stories of Baum.

On a weekday evening in the crowded theater, it is surprising the number of members of the public are young women. Wicked amateur teen - and there are many -. They are known for camping outside the theater of inputs and is dressed in witches (but not tonight)

has elements that could not be more perfect for many adolescents who had been combined approach: a proof of friendship, insecurity on the look and feel of an image foreign exchange, the half of the teachers and the anguish of love - and songs delivered with a style of X Factor shoutiness defined. Not that there are more vital issues - racism, freedom of speech, evil dictatorships -. Subsurface huge

is the first time that Gabriela Mendelsohn, 19, was seen, but he was taken by a friend who had been before. "I love the story about friendship," he said. "The effects and costumes are incredible."

Linda Fuentes, the feast day of San Antonio, Texas, has seen the production three times in the United States. "It's funny, I love the songs, the emotion of it."

There are more than 600,000 members of the site of production of Broadway Facebook, fans regularly talk about the series of forums and Twitter sites dedicated to the performance of cast members and Clips of the illicit trade engravings. There are fans of evil in the world who have seen the show hundreds of times.

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