{"id":2150360,"date":"2025-11-12T01:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2150360"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:44:23","slug":"wicked-opens-wednesday-as-sheas-crews-set-up-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wicked-opens-wednesday-as-sheas-crews-set-up-the-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wicked&#8217; opens Wednesday as Shea&#8217;s crews set up the stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014\u00a0Look to the Western Sky of Buffalo, as Shea&#8217;s Performing Arts Center welcomes the national tour of &#8220;Wicked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedcode\"><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"keypointsbox\" style=\"text-align: left; width: 95%;\">\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/>\n<h4 style=\"text-indent: 10px;\"><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/h4>\n<h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Wicked opens at Shea&#8217;s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Production crews were setting up the stage Tuesday.\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The show has a three-week run through Nov. 30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h5>\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<span class=\"remove-embeded\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Production crews, on the ground and in the air, are setting up for Wednesday&#8217;s opening night of &#8220;Wicked&#8221; at Shea&#8217;s.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been such a great theater town for years. We have all the stage magic,&#8221; said\u00a0Steve Quinn, company manager of the national tour of &#8220;Wicked.&#8221; &#8220;This theater, the history of this theater; so to play this building is so amazing for us.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo is one of many stops &#8220;Wicked&#8221; is making across the country, as the production coincides with the release of the second part of the &#8220;Wicked&#8221; movie, in theaters next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wicked,&#8221; a prequel to the legendary &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221;, follows the origin of Elphaba, the green-skinned Wicked Witch of the West and her close, yet complicated, relationship with popular college roommate, Glinda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The story of friendship. It&#8217;s funny. It&#8217;s two very powerful women,&#8221; said Quinn. &#8220;When you come into this building and you see the dragon behind me and the Oz map, you know you&#8217;re going to go away somewhere for two-and-a-half hours. We&#8217;re going to transport you to Oz.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The production runs through Sunday, Nov. 30, before taking off to Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available through Shea&#8217;s\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheas.org\/performances\/wicked\/\" target=\"_blank\">website.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source spectrumlocalnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014\u00a0Look to the Western Sky of Buffalo, as Shea&#8217;s Performing Arts Center welcomes the national tour of &#8220;Wicked.&#8221; What You Need To Know Wicked opens at Shea&#8217;s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo Wednesday night.\u00a0 Production crews were setting up the stage Tuesday.\u00a0 The show has a three-week run through Nov. 30. 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