Why Wicked feels so good
I am one of a gaggle of Irish journalists who has just watched the hit musical Wicked — the untold story of the witches of Oz — and, just as Dorothy discovered that a machine is the source of the wizard’s power, so too do we suddenly come across the nuts, bolts and props that make the magical show happen.
We also meet a life-size, pea-green rubber baby — it’s obviously a prop but most of the women in the group coo as they pass. And we encounter the wizard’s throne with its giant head — all wires and gee-whiz technology behind. It’s the real stuff of magic.
