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**Wicked** Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz is based on the best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire. Music and lyrics created by Stephen Schwartz and has had a huge audience of 20 million people worldwide. Wicked tells the story of Alpheba and Glinda, before Dorothy dropped in. Alpheba, with skin of emerald-green a smart, misunderstood girl and Glinda, a beautiful, popular girl. Wicked goes on to tell the story of the friendship of these two very different girls and how one became known as the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch. Wicked is a winner of 26 major awards including, a Grammy and Tony award. It is one of the most successful theatrical events in the world, with a huge ticket sale of 1.6 billion! Wicked has had an audience of 20 million people world-wide and 750,000 since it opened in Australia in…. It was a huge success in Melbourne with $2.3million worth of advanced booked tickets in just three hours! The Regent Theatre opened in Collins Street in 1929. It was designed by Cedric Ballantyne and built by James Porter & Sons. It is known as ‘Melbourne’s palace of dreams’. Unfortunately, a fire destroyed the Regent’s auditorium in 1945 and it required new plasterwork for it to be repaired. People were so happy when it re-opened in 1947! Melbourne City Council decided to alter the Regent in to two smaller theatres and for this to happen they closed the theatre on the 1st of July 1970. It took three years for this action to take place and it opened again in 1973. It has never been closed since. Since then famous productions such as Wicked, Wizard of Oz, Rocky Horror Show, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
 * Regent Theatre **



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