Stage Talk with Rick Koster
Where every show has something to say.
Wooo-ooo, Witchy Women!
From the Magna Carta and Appomattox through the Treaty of Versailles and the Yalta Conference, Important People have always gathered to resolve issues typically related to Good versus Evil.
But rarely have any of these sounded so damned good and entertained in such delicious fashion as the upcoming Nov. 16 conclave at the Garde called “Good Witch/Bad Witch – the Broadway Witches.”
In a damned clever and family-friendly offshoot of the massively successful musical “Wicked!,” rival sorceresses Glinda and Elphaba – respectively portrayed by Alli Mauzey and Alyssa Fox from the production’s Broadway touring company – will separately and together perform punch-the-sky vocal renditions of songs like “Defying Gravity,” “Popular,” “What Is this Feeling” and “For Good.”
In addition, the concert offers hilarious banter, spectacular visuals – and allows each performer the opportunity to revisit magical moments from their careers. Mauzey’s Broadway resume includes Pattie from “Kimberly Akimbo,” Ernestina in “Hello, Dolly!” and Lenora in “Cry-Baby” (for which she earned a Theatre World Award and Drama League nomination).
Fox starred as Elsa in Disney’s “Frozen” with the closing company of the national tour and also appeared in “Cats” (Starring Buffalo) and “Disney Princess – The Concert,” and sang on the official soundtrack recording of the first “Wicked” movie adaptation.
“Good Witch/Bad Witch – the Broadway Witches” promises to contain such incantatory power and authenticity you’ll swear Fox and Mauzey got their start back in 1692 at another historical gathering – at the Salem Witch Trials!