No link or anything. I just want to point out that I don't care.

Hey kids! I'm thrilled to introduce our first fanmail day! Here we go...

I clicked onto your site, looking for humor, a good time and some amusing quips. I came away with a script that was worse than the play you claimed it was based on. Seriously, do better than that. Other than that, however, I would like to make a few comments regarding this quote,
"See, there's this little thing
that this guy named SHAKESPEARE used to do. If there was
something that was going to be a surprise at the end, he
would at least introduce it earlier in the play, sufficiently
enough so that last moment gives you a sort of "oh, why
couldn't *I* have figured that out myself?" type of feeling."
In a nutshell... NO. Shakespeare did not do that. Shakespeare wrote and wrote and wrote until he realized that his actors were actually onstage, performing the play for a real audience, then just ended the play with... marriage for everyone! Random Greek God included. There is, in fact, foreshadowing in "Wicked", as there is in the novel. The green bottle is thoroughly explained for anyone with a few gray cells and a will to listen.
Also, Elphaba's greenness was not supposed to represent racial tensions in America. God help us, it was written with a larger scope than that.
Oh, by the way, the Shakespeare referenced above is the ending of "As You Like It."
Thank you, please do better next time.
Clara [last name removed]

I'm sorry, but I have to strongly disagree with your e-mail, Clara:

1. The Shakespeare referenced above is actually the ending for "Midsummer". Also "Twelfth Night". Also "Comedy of Errors". Oh fuck, there's an entire wikipedia entry for it.
2. Some of Shakespeare's plays ended with death for everyone.
   

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I thought that was kind of sweet.

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$60 for rear mezzanine is not a discount.

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Shame. Gotta love Playbill's choice of a picture of a slightly-distressed-but-still-kinda-chill picture of Finn for the article. Also gotta love how Playbill clearly puts that in quotes.... you know there was an earlier article, something like "Scheduling conflicts are to blame... but really, it's cause Finn and Junkyard Dog productions got into this huge pissy fight in the middle of Union Square... check out the clip on youtube." But Playbill.com editor Andrew Gans would have none of that!

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I really hope he does...

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I love that Playbill's picture of Mo is just stolen off of the Daily Show Website.

I posed this to the BroadwayWorld community...

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A Chorus Line.

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Russia has become more advanced than us.

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