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Which witch?

The musical Wicked has flown into the Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre on brooms and bubbles, the preferred modes of travel for the show’s witches. The production huffs and puffs, but in the end, it’s no more than a colorful spectacle and emotional dud. Based on Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of […]

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The Wicked

As soon as its wonderful animated opening credits finish, however, The Wicked reveals its true nature as your below-average, everyday, unimaginative horror movie. It’s wicked, all right — just not in the word’s positive connotation. Although not to be confused with the Broadway smash Wicked, this flick also is about a witch (Cassie Keller, Hostel: Part […]

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‘Hyde’ and shriek

Teal Wicks has it easy in Jekyll & Hyde — and not just because, unlike the musical’s star, she doesn’t have to fill two roles. No, playing Dr. Jekyll’s fiancée in the current national tour is a breeze because she’s not required to carry every scene. The actress spent the better part of 2011 being […]

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