One of the most successful shows in Broadway made in New York City is Wicked. There are many fabulous songs from the show including the hit defying gravity. This play is performed by Idina Menzen.
Wicked is a musical with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. The story is loosely based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of the 1939 film of L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz.
It is currently the 18th longest-running show in Broadway history and the 25th longest-running show in musical theatre history.
Wicked tells the story of Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her relationship with Galinda, later Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. Their friendship struggles through their opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, their reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's public fall from grace. The plot is set before and during Dorothy's arrival from Kansas, and includes several references to well-known scenes and dialogue in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz as a backstory.
The score of Wicked is heavily thematic, bearing in some senses more resemblance to a film score than a traditional musical score. While many musicals' scores develop new motifs and melodies for each song with little overlap
More examples are
No One Mourns the Wicked – Glinda, Witch's Father, Witch's Mother, Lover, Midwife and Citizens
Dear Old Shiz – Galinda and Students
The Wizard and I – Madame Morrible and Elphaba
What is this Feeling? – Galinda, Elphaba and Students
Something Bad – Doctor Dillamond and Elphaba
Dancing through Life – Fiyero, Galinda, Boq, Nessarose, Elphaba, and Students
Popular – Galinda
I'm Not That Girl – Elphaba
One Short Day – Elphaba, Glinda and Denizens of the Emerald City
A Sentimental Man – The Wizard
Defying Gravity – Elphaba, Glinda, Guards and Citizens
