Wicked (musical album)

Wicked: Deluxe Edition
Cast recording
Genre	Show tune
Length	37:49

Wicked: 5th Anniversary Special Edition
Cast recording
Released	October 28, 2008
Genre	Show tune
Length	34:30

Wicked
Cast recording by Wicked Cast
Released	December 16, 2003
Recorded	November 10, 2003
Genre	Showtunes
Length	70:37
Label	Decca Broadway
Producer	Stephen Schwartz

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.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	(C+)[2]

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 66 in 2013. 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 are written by Stephen Schwartz.

Act One
No.	Title	Performer(s)	Length
1.	"Overture / No One Mourns the Wicked"	Kristin Chenoweth Sean McCourt Cristy Candler Jan Neuberger Original Broadway Cast of Wicked	6:40
2.	"Dear Old Shiz"	Chenoweth Cast	1:26
3.	"The Wizard and I"	Idina Menzel Carole Shelley	5:09
4.	"What Is This Feeling?"	Chenoweth Menzel Cast	3:32
5.	"Something Bad"	William Youmans Menzel	1:39
6.	"Dancing Through Life"	Norbert Leo Butz Chenoweth Christopher Fitzgerald Michelle Federer Menzel Cast	7:37
7.	"Popular"	Chenoweth	3:44
8.	"I'm Not That Girl"	Menzel	2:58
9.	"One Short Day"	Chenoweth Menzel Cast	3:03
10.	"A Sentimental Man"	Joel Grey	1:15
11.	"Defying Gravity"	Menzel Chenoweth Cast	5:53

Act Two
No.	Title	Performer(s)	Length
1.	"No One Mourns the Wicked (Reprise) / Thank Goodness"	Chenoweth Shelley Cast	6:22
2.	"Wonderful"	Grey Menzel	4:57
3.	"I'm Not That Girl (Reprise)"	Chenoweth	0:49
4.	"As Long as You're Mine"	Menzel Butz	3:45
5.	"No Good Deed"	Menzel	3:31
6.	"March of the Witch Hunters"	Fitzgerald Cast	1:30
7.	"For Good"	Chenoweth Menzel	5:06
8.	"Finale: For Good (Reprise)"	Chenoweth Menzel Cast	1:41

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

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

Deluxe edition

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

German language recording

Wicked Das Musical - Die Hexen von Oz
Cast recording
Genre	Show tune
Length	71:31

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.

All tracks are written by Stephen Schwartz.

No.	Title	Performer(s)	Length
1.	"Keiner weint um Hexen"	Lucy Scherer Stefan Poslovoski Emma Hunter Francesca Taverni Original Stuttgart Cast of Wicked	6:42
2.	"Gutes altes Glizz"	Cast	1:26
3.	"Der Zauberer und ich"	Angelika Wedekind Willemijn Verkaik	5:12
4.	"Was fühl ich in mir?"	Scherer Verkaik Cast	3:36
5.	"Nicht ist mehr geheuer"	Michael Günther Verkaik	1:41
6.	"Tanz durch die Welt"	Mark Seibert Scherer Stefan Stara Nicole Radeschnig Verkaik Cast	7:38
7.	"Heißgeliebt"	Lucy Scherer	3:48
8.	"Ich bin es nicht"	Verkaik	3:02
9.	"Nur ein Tag"	Scherer Verkaik Cast	3:05
10.	"Ein seelenvoller Mann"	Carlo Lauber	1:18
11.	"Frei und Schwerelos"	Scherer Verkaik Cast	6:00
12.	"Wie herrlich"	Scherer Wedekind Cast	6:25
13.	"Wundervoll"	Lauber Verkaik	5:00
14.	"Ich bin es nicht (Reprise)"	Scherer	0:52
15.	"Solang ich dich hab"	Verkaik Seibert	3:48
16.	"Gutes tun"	Verkaik	3:33
17.	"Marsch der Hexenjäger"	Stara Cast	1:33
18.	"Wie ich bin"	Scherer Verkaik	5:10
19.	"Finale"	Scherer Verkaik Cast	1:42

Personnel

Cast

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

Alternates

Sabrina Weckerlin – Elphaba
Jana Stelley – Glinda

Ensemble vocals

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

15th anniversary special edition

Wicked (15th Anniversary Special Edition)
Cast recording
Released	February 8, 2019
Genre	Show tune
Length	86:23[9]
Label	Verve Records

The album was re-released on February 8, 2019, with four bonus tracks. These tracks were taken from live performances on the show A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years On Broadway, which was broadcast by NBC on October 29, 2018.[10][11][12]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Stephen Schwartz.

No.	Title	Performer(s)	Length
1.	"For Good - Live"	Kristin Chenoweth Idina Menzel	4:22
2.	"What Is This Feeling? - Live"	Pentatonix	3:37
3.	"The Wizard and I - Live"	Ariana Grande	3:55
4.	"As Long As You're Mine - Live"	Adam Lambert Ledisi	3:47

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".[13]

Charts

Charts (2003-2014)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[14]	73
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[15]	67
South Korean Albums (Gaon Music Chart)[16]	4
South Korean International Albums (Gaon Music Chart)[17]	1
US Billboard 200[18]	66
US Cast Albums[19]	1

Year-end charts

Charts (2006)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[20]	1

Charts (2007)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[21]	1

Charts (2007)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[22]	1

Charts (2008)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[23]	1

Charts (2009)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[24]	1

Charts (2010)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[25]	1

Charts (2011)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[26]	2

Charts (2012)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[27]	1

Charts (2013)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[28]	1

Charts (2014)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[29]	1

Charts (2015)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[30]	2

Charts (2016)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[31]	2

Charts (2017)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[32]	3

Charts (2018)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[33]	3

Charts (2019)	Peak position
US Cast Albums'[34]	4

References

Wicked: A New Musical - Original Broadway Cast | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic Wicked at AllMusic
Frascella, Lawerence (January 9, 2004). Wicked Review. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
"Wicked: A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) - Original Broadway Cast". Nielsen SoundScan. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
"WICKED Cast Album Goes Double Platinum". BroadwayWorld.com. November 8, 2010. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
Paul Grein. "Chart Watch: Taylor Swift Is 4 For 4 (Million)". Yahoo Music. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
Keith Caulfield. "Hamilton passes 1 million sales plus chart highlights from James Arthur, Maren Morris and Taylor Swift". Billboard. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
"'Wicked' Music" musicalschwartz.com, accessed August 29, 2011
Gans, Andrew (September 26, 2008). "Anniversary Edition of Wicked CD to Feature Bonus Tracks by Rimes, Goodrem and Menzel". Playbill. Retrieved September 28, 2008.
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[Allmusic_review-1] Wicked: A New Musical - Original Broadway Cast | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic Wicked at AllMusic

[Entertainment_Weekly-2] Frascella, Lawerence (January 9, 2004). Wicked Review. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 10, 2014.

[Soundscan2003-3] "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. November 8, 2010. Retrieved November 11, 2010.

[US_sales-5] Paul Grein. "Chart Watch: Taylor Swift Is 4 For 4 (Million)". Yahoo Music. Retrieved February 19, 2014.

[US_sales_update-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

[Playbill-5ann-8] Gans, Andrew (September 26, 2008). "Anniversary Edition of Wicked CD to Feature Bonus Tracks by Rimes, Goodrem and Menzel". Playbill. Retrieved September 28, 2008.

[amazon-15-9] "Wicked (15th Anniversary Special Edition)". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 9, 2019.

[ew-15-10] Kinane, Ruth (January 25, 2019). "Ariana Grande, Adam Lambert, and more to appear on Wicked 15th anniversary album". Entertainment Weekly. Meredith Corporation. Retrieved February 9, 2019.

[bway-world-15-11] "WICKED Will Release Special Two-Disc 15th Anniversary Edition Cast Album". Broadway World. Wisdom Digital Media. January 25, 2019. Retrieved February 9, 2019.

[spotify-15-12] "Wicked (15th Anniversary Special Edition)". Spotify. Retrieved February 9, 2019.

[13] Gans, Andrew."Diva Talk: Chatting with Wicked's Julia Murney Plus News of Peters and Skinner" playbill.com, March 17, 2006

[ac_Austria_Musical-14] [ORIGINALVERSION+DES+DEUTSCHEN+MUSICALS&cat=a "Austriancharts.at – Musical – WICKED - DIE HEXEN VON OZ [ORIGINALVERSION DES DEUTSCHEN MUSICALS]"] (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved August 8, 2013.

[ac_Germany_Musical-15] "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved August 8, 2013.

[16] "Gaon Album Chart 2013년 11월 5주차" (in Korean). November 29, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013.

[17] "Gaon Album Chart 2013년 11월 5주차" (in Korean). November 29, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013.

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