It has been about 10 years since I first saw Wicked at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff and I was almost a bit nervous going in – could it live up to the hype and memory I had in my head of how good it was?! Well, it not only lived up to it but went above and beyond, sweeping me up for an evening into a spellbinding world of magic, music and friendship. The Surprising Backstory of the Famous Witches of Oz… Wicked reimagines Gregory Maguire’s novel (based on L. Frank Baum’s classic) making us question everything we thought we knew about heroes, villains, and what it means to be truly “wicked”. The show tells the untold story of Elphaba (the so-called “Wicked Witch of the West”) and her surprising friendship with Glinda the Good. Set long before Dorothy arrives, the show takes us to their university days, where two young women – one misunderstood and fierce, the other bubbly and adored – meet and form an unlikely bond. Through their choices and challenges, the story qu...