Musical Today The Broadway run, and what a ticket actually buys
Wicked
The premise is a reversal, and the show commits to it entirely: the Wicked Witch of the West was a girl called Elphaba, she was clever and green and unpopular, and the story everybody knows is the version her enemies were allowed to tell. Gregory Maguire wrote it as a novel in 1995. Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman turned it into a musical about a friendship.
- Cities
- 1
- Home theatre
- Gershwin Theatre
- Open run
- New York, since 30 October 2003
- On sale
- 0 of 1 runs
- Last checked
- 13 September 2026
It began previews at the Gershwin Theatre on 8 October 2003 and opened on the 30th — the night before Halloween — and it has not moved since. It is Broadway's second-highest-grossing musical and passed a billion dollars in 2016, and the London production has been at the Apollo Victoria since September 2006.
Below is the Broadway run as it stands: the theatre, the performance schedule, what a seat costs, how long the evening is, and where each of those came from.
Where it plays
Soonest first. Every city has its own page, with the theatre, the dates and the seller.
