Wicked

Wicked at Fabulous Fox Theatre - St. Louis

Picture two very different young women in Oz. One is a green-skinned outsider. The other is the popular blonde everyone notices. Wicked builds a stage musical from their friendship and their conflict, and it asks a question that sticks with you: what happens when the person you least expect to understand you becomes the one who matters most? On May 21, 2027, at 7:30 PM, that story comes to the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis.

Then there is the music. The score includes "Defying Gravity," "Popular" and "For Good," songs that many theatergoers know well and love to hear. Maybe you have hummed them in the car for years. Maybe you have one you save for a certain kind of day. Hearing music like that inside a theater, as part of the story it was written to tell, is different from hearing it through earbuds. A song that belongs to the whole room can feel bigger than a song that belongs to your playlist.

This is a live stage production, not a film screening, and that is the point. It makes a good reason to plan something with a friend, a sibling, a daughter or anyone who has ever felt like the odd one out or the one everyone admires. Dinner, a night in St. Louis, and a story about two unlikely allies make a simple plan worth keeping. Choose your seats for Wicked at the Fabulous Fox Theatre and make that evening yours.