Alexandra Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 It is coming to a town near us and I would love to take my kids. Is this a kid-friendly production? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaterbabs Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 It has some adult themes. I'd read the book and some of the reviews. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_(musical) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 My DD saw it at age 12. I was comfortable with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 I'd have no problem with it. It's a fantastic show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Also-- the book was raunchy. The musical was clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Also-- the book was raunchy. The musical was clean. The book was raunchy!? Really? You thought the book was raunchy? Really? lol Although I agree the musical isn't. But where was the book raunchy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in SW WA Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Also-- the book was raunchy. The musical was clean. :iagree: We saw this on Mother's Day on Broadway last week. Awesome!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 We just took out 11 year old and 8 year old to see it with my sister and my nephews (10 and 7). Everyone loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagnfun Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Also-- the book was raunchy. The musical was clean. :iagree::iagree: No way I'd want the kidlets to read the book, not even the 13 yr old. However, for xmas as a family dh & I took the kids to LA to watch it. Kids were 18, 12, 10 & 5. The 5 yr old already knew all the words to the songs so she sang along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Yes, my kids *love* it! While the book is *not* for kids, I think the musical is *very* kid-friendly. The one issue is, er, Elphaba's parentage. Her mother has an affair, and later Elphaba learns that someone else is her bio father. This comes up at the beginning in one song where the husband leaves for the evening, and another man waltzes into the wife's arms and gives her something green to drink. Takes about five seconds. Then, later in the play, Elphaba sees a green bottle like the one her mother had and figures out who her real father is. It's *very* subtle, and while it's an issue that could have been a problem for me, I was fine with how it was handled. Otherwise, there could be some scary moments for especially sensitive younger children -- there are a lot of lighting and staging effects, obviously there's the Wicked Witch of the West, there's some heartbreak, tough choices, betrayal... But the songs and the dancing are great fun, the friendship between the two main characters is great (it's tested but makes them both stronger), there is loyalty and strength despite temptation... And my kids love the music. It's also fairly long -- I wouldn't take younger children who weren't used to going to live theater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinning Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I just took my 5 yo and 8 yo dds to a production of this at our community center. A couple of kids in our HS group were part of it--they did Wizard of Oz/Wicked--one right after the other. I have never seen Wicked before and really had no idea what it was about. The girls did not really get the 'affair'--and I told them the green drink was poison (as opposed to explaining alcohol and infidelity :glare:), and therefore the baby was born green. It was a great show and the young people that put it on did a FABULOUS job. It was not risque (Wicked was put on by teenagers and Oz by younger kids), but perhaps there is an adult version as well? I really liked Wicked, but the girls really liked Oz. Since then, my DDs have been watching the WofOz almost every day and we've done a little study on tornadoes too. :D Again, I'm not sure how much of Wicked they really 'got', but the version we saw was not inappropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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