'Wicked' Lottery - $25.00 Seats In Ft. Lauderdale

(Photos By Joan Marcus)

WICKED ANNOUNCES LOTTERY FOR $25 BEST AVAILABLE SEATS 

PERFORMANCES BEGIN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12

AT BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS  

Ft. Lauderdale - A day-of-performance lottery for a limited number of orchestra seats will be held daily for WICKED, which will be performing from March 12 – April 6, 2008 at Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Each day, 2? hours prior to show time people who present themselves at the Broward Centerbox office will have their names placed in a lottery drum and then thirty minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of orchestra seats at $25 each, cash only. This lottery is available only in-person at the box office, with a limit of two tickets per person.  

In addition to $25 lottery seats, tickets are still available throughout the engagement but flying out the door! Complete performance schedule, pricing and information on how to purchase tickets is listed below.

WICKED is this writer's favorite new musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Disney's Enchanted, Academy Award winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman ("My So Called Life," "Once And Again" and "thirtysomething") based on the 1995 best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire. The musical is directed by 2003 and 2004 Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Take Me Out, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Glengarry Glen Ross) and features musical staging by Tony Award winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who's Tommy, How To Succeed…). WICKED, the untold story of the witches of Oz, is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.

Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One – born with emerald green skin – is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.  

The national tour of WICKED has "cast quite a spell" (Washington Post) throughout North America. It opened at Toronto's Canon Theatre on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 and sold out a seven-week run. WICKED has continued to break box office records and sell out multiple-week engagements in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Boston to name a few.

WICKED, "Broadway's biggest blockbuster" (The New York Times) began performances in New York on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 at The Gershwin Theatre and continues to be the top-grossing show on Broadway. WICKED is "good enough to run for a decade or two," proclaims The Wall Street Journal. It's "a cultural phenomenon," exclaims Variety. "If every musical had the brain, the heart and the courage of WICKED, Broadway really would be a magical place," states Time Magazine. 

The Chicago company of WICKED took the stage on Friday, June 24, 2005 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, and the Los Angeles production of WICKED started performances at the Pantages Theatre on February 10, 2007. 

There are currently three international productions of WICKED: a London production, which opened in September 2006 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre; a Japanese-language production, which opened on June 17, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan; and a German-language production, which opened in Stuttgart on November 15, 2007. An Australian production will open in Melbourne, Australia on July 12, 2008. 

WICKED begins performances March 12 – April 5, 2008. Performances times are Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7:30pm with matinees Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm. Tickets range from $27.00 - $75.00. Premium seat locations are available for performances from March 25 – April 6 for $150.00. Prices listed are not inclusive of applicable handling or service charges. Purchase tickets only from the following authorized ticket sellers at Broadway Across America – Ft. Lauderdale, Broward Center AutoNation Box Office or Ticketmaster. Tickets can be purchased in person at Broward Center's Auto Nation Box Office or by phone and internet at 954-462-0222 or www.browardcenter.org. Tickets are also available though Ticketmaster by phone at 954-523-3309 in Broward, 305-358-5885 in Dade, and 561-966-3309 in Palm Beach or at www.ticketmaster.com and in person at Ticketmaster outlets. Orders for groups of 20 or more may be placed by calling the Broward Center at 954-462-0222 or Broadway Across America at 1-800-6GROUPS (647-6877.)

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