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Broadway Musicals Wicked

Date: May 21-13 - 7:15 pm

Venue: Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center

Price: 180-1,280 yuan

An international company of over 70 cast, crew and musicians will travel to China, with an additional 20 local crew and 7 musicians hired in Shanghai. This "eye-poppingly lavish show" includes 300 award-winning costumes, spectacular scenery, lighting and projections and a dazzling array of technical wizardry. Based on the international best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire that ingeniously re-imagines the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two sorcery students.