I was browsing a through a bookstore and saw this book on the making of The Wizard of Oz and on it's popularity after being released. I saw this picture of Margaret Hamilton and Ray Bolger (The Witch and the Scarecrow) at a reunion decades later....am I sensing some real life Fiyeraba action??

Happy birthday to my all time favorite musical, Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches in Oz. It is still mind blowing to me that on this day, my favorite musical of all time will turn ten years old. I’m sitting her, typing this, listening to the OBC recording for the umpteenth time this month, and all I can think about his remembering all the other times I listened to this album-back in my childhood home in elementary school, in the homes I’ve lived in since then, and now, in my college dorm. Wicked is a magical little show that I’ve carried with me for all these years, and my life truly has been made better for it. There was the time I wouldn’t go anywhere without wearing my Wicked ball cap, seeing it for my eighteenth birthday with my best friend, watching my idol and inspiration Idina Menzel in concert and meeting her afterwards, singing a medley at my senior voice recital that my teacher and I put together, my Mom bribing me with the Wicked pop-up book, freaking out my first time in New York whenever I walked by the Gershwin theatre, writing a fan letter to Stephen Schwartz and receiving a personal letter and a signed copy of the 5th Anniversary recording in the mail (Was it really five years ago?), singing “For Good” at my senior Variety Show to say goodbye to all of my friends and mentors, and so many more. The music to this show has been the soundtrack for the happy times in my life, and a rock for me during the rough times. To every person who laid a hand in making this show happen day after day, year after year, I wish I could give each one of you a hug. But a special shout out to all the Elphabas, especially MY Elphabas-Stephanie J. Block, Dee Roscioli, Carmen Cusack, Vicki Noon, and Christine Dwyer. You ladies always reaffirmed my belief that different is good, and that I can be brave and stand up for myself and make a change in my world, that I’m not defined by other people’s limits.

Just For This Moment: An Aaron Tveit Fan Fiction Chapter 21

Just For This Moment: An Aaron Tveit Fan Fiction Chapter 21

Previous Chapters Here: http://notafraidofstopping876.tumblr.com/justforthismoment

Hope this one being early makes up for the last couple of ones being so late!

Countdown to Wicked's Birthday-October 10

Fiyeraba....old school!!!!!

Countdown to Wicked's Birthday-October 8

Becoming "Greenified"

Wicked's Birthday Countdown-October 6

Changing Things Up a Bit-Here are ten Wicked confessions from yours truly.

1. It bothers me when people laugh at baby Elphaba being born green

2. I LOVE the Wicked Witch of the East sequence. I know it’s NOT in the OBC recording for spoiler reasons, but I really wish it was.

3. I know there are people who say it’s overrated and well, maybe it is. But it speaks to me, it’s extremely relevant to me, and it will be my favorite musical until I die

4. I LOVE the OBC but it annoys me when people are all “the OBC is the best and everyone else sucks” there are tons of wonderful Elphabas, and Glindas who are just as good as, if not better than Idina and Kristin. (But no disrespect to those ladies, I love them to pieces)

5. When I see the show, I either hate the character of Nessarose or I love her-it all depends upon how the actress portrays her. (Either interpretation works for me, but I will always have a soft spot for Heidi Kettering who made me weep)

6. Sometimes I wonder whenever Boq and Fiyero become the Tin Man and Scarecrow, do they recognize each other? And does Glinda obviously doesn’t recognize Fiyero as the Scarecrow, but does she recognize Boq at all? And sometimes I wonder if maybe Boq/Tin Man and Cowardly Lion were working with Fiyero/the Scarecrow to try and fabricate Elphaba’s melting, that his big speech during “March of the Witch Hunters” is all a façade? Okay maybe I’m overanalyzing everything but I wonder sometimes.

7. I kind of wish that there was a good opportunity to applaud after “Something Bad” because I love Doctor Dillamond and that’s the only song he sings. So I just clap extra hard for him when he bows.

8. One time when I saw the show, there was a Daddy taking his little girl to the show, and every now and then I would glance over at her and watch her falling in love with it head over heels like I did, and it’s still one of my favorite Wicked memories.

9. For the longest time I disliked “Thank Goodness” because when I first heard it I think I was too young to really appreciate it, but as I’ve gotten more mature, that song, especially Glinda’s part towards the end, has become extremely relevant to me in my life.

10.  I loved the book, but it was kind of hard for me to get through, but I’m glad I did. 

Countdown to Wicked's Birthday-October 5

My Dream Cast for the Film

Elphaba: Samantha Barks

Glinda: Megan Hilty

Morrible: Carol Kane

The Wizard: Joel Grey

Fiyero: Aaron Tveit

Nessarose: Krysta Rodriguez

Boq: Chris Colfer

Dr. Dillamond: Jim Parsons