Wicked (musical album)

Wicked
Cast recording by Wicked Cast
Released December 16, 2003
Recorded November 10, 2003
Genre Showtunes
Length 71:17
Label Decca Broadway
Producer Stephen Schwartz
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Entertainment Weekly(C+)[2]

Wicked is a cast recording containing the majority of the songs from the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Wicked, with music and lyrics by composer Stephen Schwartz and a book by writer Winnie Holzman. Released on December 16, 2003 by Decca Broadway both in physical and digital releases. The former contains a foreword and a short synopsis, provided by Gregory Maguire, who wrote the 1995 novel on which the musical is based, in addition to lyrics to those songs included.

Composer and lyricist of Wicked, Stephen Schwartz, produced the album aided by Frank Filipetti, Jill Dell'Abate, Jason Spears, Justin Shturtz, Jason Stasium and Ted Jensen. The original cast album of Wicked was recorded on November 10, 2003, with the full cast and orchestra, at then-Right Track Studios and mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City.

The cast recording has received positive reviews and has received substantial commercial success. It received the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2005 and although initially peaking at number 125 on the Billboard 200 in 2003,[3] has since reached the new peak of 77 in 2011. The album was certified platinum on November 30, 2006 by the RIAA, but has since been certified double platinum, four years later, on November 8, 2010.[4] It has sold 2,670,000 copies in the U.S. as of January 2017.[5][6]

Track listing

All tracks written by Stephen Schwartz.

No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
1."Overture / No One Mourns the Wicked"Kristin Chenoweth, Sean McCourt, Cristy Candler, Jan Neuberger, Ensemble6:40
2."Dear Old Shiz"Kristin Chenoweth, Ensemble1:26
3."The Wizard and I"Idina Menzel, Carole Shelley5:09
4."What Is This Feeling?"Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Ensemble3:32
5."Something Bad"William Youmans, Idina Menzel1:39
6."Dancing Through Life"Norbert Leo Butz, Kristin Chenoweth, Christopher Fitzgerald, Michelle Federer, Idina Menzel, Ensemble7:37
7."Popular"Kristin Chenoweth3:44
8."I'm Not That Girl"Idina Menzel2:58
9."One Short Day"Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Ensemble3:03
10."A Sentimental Man"Joel Grey1:15
11."Defying Gravity"Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Ensemble5:53
12."No One Mourns the Wicked (Reprise) / Thank Goodness"Kristin Chenoweth, Carole Shelley, Ensemble6:22
13."Wonderful"Joel Grey, Idina Menzel4:57
14."I'm Not That Girl (Reprise)"Kristin Chenoweth0:49
15."As Long as You're Mine"Idina Menzel, Norbert Leo Butz3:45
16."No Good Deed"Idina Menzel3:31
17."March of the Witch Hunters"Christopher Fitzgerald, Ensemble1:30
18."For Good"Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel5:06
19."Finale: For Good (Reprise)"Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Ensemble1:41

Notes

  • The reprise of "No One Mourns the Wicked" is attached to the beginning of "Thank Goodness".
  • "The Wicked Witch of the East", sung by Nessarose, Elphaba, and Boq, is missing from the album. Producers deemed it too difficult to arrange for the album and thought the song would give too much of the plot away to an audience who had never seen Wicked before.
  • Short reprises of "The Wizard and I" and "A Sentimental Man", that appear in Act I and II respectively, are not included. This is mainly because they are not technically considered full musical numbers.

Fifth anniversary special edition

Wicked: 5th Anniversary Special Edition
Cast recording
Released October 28, 2008
Genre Show tune

A fifth anniversary special edition of the original Broadway cast recording was released on October 28, 2008,[7] with a bonus CD including tracks "Dancing Through Life", "Popular", "As Long as You're Mine" and "No Good Deed" from the Japanese and German cast recordings of Wicked, "I'm Not that Girl" by Kerry Ellis, "Making Good" – a song that never made the final show – by Stephanie J. Block, Menzel's dance mix of "Defying Gravity" and "For Good" sung by LeAnn Rimes and Delta Goodrem.[8]

Track listing

No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
1."For Good"LeAnn Rimes & Delta Goodrem4:15
2."I'm Not that Girl"Kerry Ellis3:49
3."Making Good"Stephanie J. Block & Stephen Schwartz4:00
4."Solang Ich Dich Hab" (German: "As Long as You're Mine")Willemijn Verkaik & Mark Seibert3:47
5."Gutes Tun" (German: "No Good Deed")Willemijn Verkaik3:33
6."Jinnsei Wo Odori-Akase" (Japanese: "Dancing Through Life")Li Tao & Company7:37
7."Popyuraa" (Japanese: "Popular")Miyuki Numao3:45
8."Defying Gravity" (Dance Mix - Tracy Young Flying Monkey Radio Mix)Idina Menzel3:44

Deluxe edition

Wicked: Deluxe Edition
Cast recording
Genre Show tune

The set of two CDs included new deluxe packaging featuring the show's tenth anniversary artwork, and a booklet with new essays by composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, and Gregory Maguire, the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the novel on which the musical is based.

Track listing

No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
1."For Good"LeAnn Rimes & Delta Goodrem4:15
2."I'm Not that Girl"Kerry Ellis3:49
3."Making Good"Stephanie J. Block & Stephen Schwartz4:00
4."Solang Ich Dich Hab" (German: "As Long as You're Mine")Willemijn Verkaik & Mark Seibert3:47
5."Gutes Tun" (German: "No Good Deed")Willemijn Verkaik3:33
6."Jinnsei Wo Odori-Akase" (Japanese: "Dancing Through Life")Li Tao & Company7:37
7."Popyuraa" (Japanese: "Popular")Miyuki Numao3:45
8."Defying Gravity" (Dance Mix - Tracy Young Flying Monkey Radio Mix)Idina Menzel3:44
9."Popular Song"Mika featuring Ariana Grande3:19

German language recording

Wicked Das Musical - Die Hexen von Oz
Cast recording
Genre Show tune

In 2007, the original Stuttgart cast rerecorded the Wicked album in German, ahead of the opening of the German production in Stuttgart that year. The title of this album was Wicked Das Musical - Die Hexen von Oz. The German lyrics are by Michael Kunze and German dialogue by Ruth Deny, conducted by Sebastian de Domenico. The orchestral music conducted by Stephen Oremus and has identical musician credits--presumably the cast simply sung to the original orchestral recording.

Cast: Willemijn Verkaik (Elphaba), Lucy Scherer (Galinda, Später Glinda), Mark Seibert (Fiyero), Carlo Lauber (Der Zauberer von Oz), Angelika Wedekind (Madame Akaber), Nicole Radeschnig (Nessarose), Stefan Stara (Moq), Michael Günther (Dr. Dillamonth)

Alternierend: Sabrina Weckerlin (Elphaba), Jana Stelley (Glinda)

Ensemble: Cosimo de Bartolomeo, Paul Boereboom, Alan Byland, Heather Carino, Alessandro Cococcia, Ben Cox, Matthias Dressel, Belinda Jean Edwards, Marco Fahrland, Rhys George, Maria Graciano, Sam Hale, Kisha Howard, Emma Hunter, Michael Kargus, Jessica Lantto, Jimmy Laremore, Valerie Link, Artur Molin, Jens Simon Petersen, Stefan Poslovski, Rey Rodriguez, Barbara Schmid, Lanie Sumalinog, Maike Switzer, Francesca Taverni, Roberta Valentini

All tracks written by Stephen Schwartz.

No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
1."Keiner weint um Hexen"Lucy Scherer, Stefan Poslovoski, Emma Hunter, Francesca Taverni, Ensemble6:42
2."Gutes altes Glizz"Ensemble1:26
3."Der Zauberer und ich"Angelika Wedekind, Willemijn Verkaik5:12
4."Was fühl ich in mir?"Lucy Scherer, Willemijn Verkaik, Ensemble3:36
5."Nicht ist mehr geheuer"Michael Günther, Willemijn Verkaik1:41
6."Tanz durch die Welt"Mark Seibert, Lucy Scherer, Stefan Stara, Nicole Radeschnig, Willemijn Verkaik, Ensemble7:38
7."Heißgeliebt"Lucy Scherer3:48
8."Ich bin es nicht"Willemijn Verkaik3:02
9."Nur ein Tag"Lucy Scherer, Willemijn Verkaik, Ensemble3:05
10."Ein seelenvoller Mann"Carlo Lauber1:18
11."Frei und Schwerelos"Lucy Scherer, Willemijn Verkaik, Ensemble6:00
12."Wie herrlich"Lucy Scherer, Angelika Wedekind, Ensemble6:25
13."Wundervoll"Carlo Lauber, Willemijn Verkaik5:00
14."Ich bin es nicht (Reprise)"Lucy Scherer0:52
15."Solang ich dich hab"Willemijn Verkaik & Mark Seibert3:48
16."Gutes tun"Willemijn Verkaik3:33
17."Marsch der Hexenjäger"Stefan Stara, Ensemble1:33
18."Wie ich bin"Lucy Scherer, Willemijn Verkaik5:10
19."Finale"Lucy Scherer, Willemijn Verkaik, Ensemble1:42

Singles

In 2007, Idina Menzel re-recorded "Defying Gravity" as a solo version and released it as a single.

Kerry Ellis recorded rock versions of the songs "Defying Gravity" and "I'm Not That Girl" for her 2008 album Wicked in Rock, produced by Queen's guitarist, Brian May.

Julia Murney recorded "I'm Not That Girl" for her album, I'm Not Waiting (2006). She recorded this particular song because she deemed it one song of the entire musical "that had nothing to do with flying or wizards".[9]

Chart positions

Year Chart Peak
position
2003 US Billboard 200 125[3]
2004 77[10]
US Top Internet Albums (Billboard)[10]
2007 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[11] 67
2008 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[12] 73
2009 US Top Pop Catalog Albums (Billboard)[10] 3
2012 US Billboard 200[10] 71
US Top Pop Catalog Albums (Billboard)[10] 3
2013 South Korean Albums (Gaon Music Chart)[13] 4
South Korean International Albums (Gaon Music Chart)[14] 1
US Billboard 200[10] 66
US Top Pop Catalog Albums (Billboard)[10] 3
"—" indicates that the peak position on that chart is unknown.

References

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  3. 1 2 "Wicked: A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) - Original Broadway Cast". Nielsen SoundScan. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
  4. "WICKED Cast Album Goes Double Platinum". BroadwayWorld.com. 8 November 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  5. Paul Grein. "Chart Watch: Taylor Swift Is 4 For 4 (Million)". Yahoo Music. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  6. Keith Caulfield. "Hamilton passes 1 million sales plus chart highlights from James Arthur, Maren Morris and Taylor Swift". Billboard. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  7. "'Wicked' Music" musicalschwartz.com, accessed August 29, 2011
  8. Gans, Andrew (2008-09-26). "Anniversary Edition of Wicked CD to Feature Bonus Tracks by Rimes, Goodrem and Menzel". Playbill. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
  9. Gans, Andrew."Diva Talk: Chatting with Wicked's Julia Murney Plus News of Peters and Skinner" playbill.com, March 17, 2006
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wicked: A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) - Original Broadway Cast Recording - Awards. Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Accessed on August 8, 2013.
  11. "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
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