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3 unusual facts about Wicked!


Hotel del Coronado

Since then, it has been featured in at least twelve other films, including: Some Like It Hot (which starred Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis where it was called the "Seminole Ritz"), The Stunt Man (which starred Peter O'Toole), Wicked, Wicked (which was completely filmed on location there), and the 1990 version of My Blue Heaven (which starred Steve Martin and Rick Moranis).

Wicked, Wicked

The film was the brainchild of writer-director Richard L. Bare, who got the idea for the Duo-Vision gimmick while driving one day, when he noticed the line that divided the road.

Wicked!

The next song, "I'm Raving", features samples of the same song, and also "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn.


...Upon My Wicked Son

...Upon My Wicked Son is the first solo album by Andy Prieboy, released in 1990 (see 1990 in music).

1981 Antwerp bombing

The bombing was condemned as "diabolically wicked" by Belgian prime minister Mark Eyskens.

A Wicked Ghost III: The Possession

A Wicked Ghost III: The Possession is a 2002 Hong Kong horror film produced by Stanley Tong, directed by Hung Chung-hap and starring Gigi Lai, Cheung Tat-ming, Grace Lam, Yip Sai Wing, Wayne Lai, Patrick Keung, Jenny Yam and Joyce Han.

Alli Mauzey

From April 17 to October 7, 2007, Mauzey acted as the standby for the lead role of Glinda in the Broadway production of Wicked, covering in the absence of Kendra Kassebaum.

Bari Cathedral

The present building was constructed between the late 12th and late 13th centuries, mostly in the last thirty years of the 12th century, and was built on the site of the ruins of the Imperial Byzantine cathedral destroyed in 1156 by William I of Sicily known as the Wicked (il Malo); to the right of the transept it is still possible to observe traces of the original pavement which extends under the nave.

Brian Grosz

After disbanding, Brian formed the hard-rock/post-hardcore band Dogs of Winter - a group that caught attention for its cover of Chris Isaak classic, "Wicked Game."

Cara Fawn

She has appeared in over 220 films, including No Man's Land, Fever, Secrets of the Flesh, Freshmen Fantasies, California Cocksuckers, The Wicked Temptress, Bloodrite, Pure Bliss, Third Date and This Girl's Life.

Casey-Lee Jolleys

By the late eighties, she was a co-presenter of the BBC Saturday morning children's programme It's Wicked! (produced by BBC North West) and was appearing as Annie Mappin in the BBC comedy drama series Gruey and the sequel, Gruey Twoey.

Catherine Wheels Theatre Company

Other productions include Caged, Pobby and Dingan (TMA 2010 award winner for Best Show for Children and Young People), The Book of Beasts, Something Wicked This Way Comes (with National Theatre of Scotland), The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk, Hansel and Gretel, Kes, The Lion of Kabul, The Book of Beasts, Cyrano, Snow Baby, and The Story of the Little Gentleman.

Chikara Season Five

A random draw would see Delirious selected as Wicked’s partner and the two would make their way to the semi-finals with wins over Crossbones and Rorschach plus Cheech and Cloudy in the first two rounds before beating Team DDT (KUDO and Kyohei Mikami).

Decca Broadway

Decca Broadway has also recorded recent hits including: Wicked, Monty Python's Spamalot, Seussical, and Spring Awakening.

DJ Garth

In 1991 along with friends and fellow DJs Jenö, Thomas Bullock, Markie, Alan & Trish he founded the Wicked Sound System, and with the fellow members of Wicked organized the monthly Full Moon events that led to increased underground interest in rave culture.

Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit

The revue continues the series' tradition of spoofing contemporary Broadway shows and personalities, including the shows Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray, Wicked, Avenue Q, Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, La Cage aux Folles, and Bombay Dreams, and personalities Christina Applegate, Robert Goulet, Cherry Jones, and Kathleen Turner.

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk

The scene in Trevor Nunn's 1985 film, Lady Jane, in which Frances kills a deer in white snow, establishes early on in the film that she is the evil character, a wicked Queen to Jane's Snow White.

Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Gemma thinks that stories like it (a popular staple of Victorian literature) about a "poor, timid girl" who is greatly put upon by her wicked peers, before eventually being found to be of noble birth, are "poppycock".

Harvard Law School Parody

The 2013 Harvard Law Parody followed Dorothy, Scarebro, Tina Tinman, and Lionel as they attempted to obtain the comb of Wicked Witch Noah Feldman.

Hawkwind videography

Tracks: Roy Harper: "One Man Rock'n'Roll Band"; "Commune"; "I Hate The White Man"; "Highway Blues";
Hawkwind: "Ghost Dance"; "Angels Of Death"; "Watching the Grass Grow"; "Utopia"; "Social Alliance"; "Brainstorm";
The Enid: "Sunrise"; "Song For Europe"; "Something Wicked This Way Comes"; "Wild Thing"

Henry Cosgrove

In 1903 he was quoted in the national media calling Davenport "the wicked city of its size in America" because of its notorious Bucktown District, an area of speakeasies and houses of prosititution, which were down the hill from the cathedral.

Holme Fell

The quarry is also used by rock climbers and offers some excellent Extreme routes such as "First Night Nerves" and "Wicked Willie".

Ilsa, the Wicked Warden

Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (also known as Greta, the Mad Butcher, Ilsa: Absolute Power, and Wanda, the Wicked Warden) is a 1977 sexploitation film directed by Jesús Franco and starring Dyanne Thorne.

John Epperson

In Winter 2004, Epperson (in a different drag role) played the role of the Wicked Stepmother in the New York City Opera's revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella in a cast with Eartha Kitt, Dick van Patten and fellow Wigstock veteran Renée Taylor.

Katie Rowley Jones

Rowley Jones is best known for creating the role of Nessarose for UK audiences, in the London production of Wicked.

Louise Plowright

In 2013 she was due to replace Julie Legrand as Madame Morrible in the West End hit musical Wicked but as of April 22, 2013, Plowright withdrew from the role due to ill health, and has been replaced by Harriet Thorpe.

Macintosh IIfx

Dubbed "Wicked Fast" by the Product Manager, Frank Casanova - who came to Apple from Apollo Computer in Boston, Massachusetts where the Boston term "wicked" was commonly used to define anything extreme - the system ran at a clock rate of a then-impressive 40 megahertz, had 32 KB of Level 2 cache, six NuBus slots and included a number of proprietary ASICs and coprocessors designed to speed up the machine further.

Macrina the Younger

Universalists, including Hosea Ballou and J. W. Hanson, claim Macrina as a Universalist in her teachings, citing works which they believe demonstrate Macrina's belief that the wicked would all eventually confess Christ.

Marcie Dodd

Marcie Dodd (born March 10, 1978) is an American stage performer, best known for playing Elphaba and Nessarose in various US companies of the hit musical Wicked.

Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks

This case was investigated on TV by Aphrodite Jones in her Investigation Discovery documentary TV series True Crime with Aphrodite Jones (Season 1, episode 1), and would also be explored on the same network on two other programs: Wicked Attraction (episode "Calm Before the Storm") and Deadly Sins (episode "I'd Kill For A Sex Change").

Nathaniel D. Mann

"Climb de Golden Fence : (oh my! wicked piccaninny)", lyrics by Hattie Starr, M. Witmark & Sons, 1895, interpolated into a production of C.W. Taylor's 1852 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Ruskington

It was the manufacturer of Spam fritters and Wicked Pigs, but these products have been discontinued.

Southwood Middle School

Alex Lacamoire, Tony award winning music director and conductor, whose credits include music director of both Wicked and In the Heights.

Spek

In 2005, Spek was cast in a lead role in the UK/European feature film Wicked, starring alongside Danish star Kim Bodnia and others.

Supernatural

We say also that wicked men are still in the state of nature, but the regenerate in a state of grace; that cures wrought by medicines are natural operations; but the miraculous ones wrought by Christ and his apostles were supernatural.

Susan Hilferty

Hilferty's Broadway credits include the costumes for Wicked (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards), Lestat (Tony nomination), Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), Radio Golf, Assassins, the revival of Into the Woods (Tony nomination, Hewes Award), Jitney, Dirty Blonde, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Swiss Family Guy Robinson

"A wicked talent for vocal mimicry. Freakin' sweet!" – Alison Broverman: National Post

Tamiel

Tamiel taught "the children of men all of the wicked strikes of spirits, the strikes of demons, and the strikes of the embryo in the womb so that it may pass away (abortion), and the strikes of the soul, the bites of the serpent, and the strikes which befall through the noontide heat, which is called the son of the serpent named Taba'et (meaning male)" during the days of Noah, not the days of Jared.

The Killing Lights

In Fall 2011 they played on the "Something Wicked This Way Comes Tour" with Wednesday 13, Polkadot Cadaver & Nightmare Sonata.

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz is a 1968 American comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Elke Sommer, Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer and Leon Askin.

The Wicked Lady

The story was based on the novel The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall, which in turn, was based upon the (disputed) events surrounding the life of Lady Katherine Ferrers, the wife of the major landowner in Markyate on the main London - Birmingham road.

The Wicked North

The Wicked North stood as a stallion at the True North farm at Versailles, Kentucky until 2008 when he was retired after suffering from equine protozoal myeloencephalitis.

The Wicked West

The Wicked West is a graphic novel series written by Todd Livingston and Robert Tinnell and Illustrated by Neil Vokes.

The Yellow Book

According to Stanley Weintraub, "The color of The Yellow Book was an appropriate reflection of the 'Yellow Nineties', a decade in which Victorianism was giving way among the fashionable to Regency attitudes and French influences; For yellow was not only the decor of the notorious and dandified pre-Victorian Regency, but also of the allegedly wicked and decadent French novel".

Thomas Lyttelton

Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton (1744–1779), British MP for Bewdley, 1768 and profligate, dubbed "the wicked Lord Lyttelton" and "bad Lord Lyttelton"

Truly Scrumptious

Truly and Caractacus dance and sing a duet (Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious) to distract the Baron's staff as children around the castle plant their own booby-traps and free Grandpa and the Potts children to help with the battle against the wicked Baron.

Use Your Fingers

Rick Denzien - Mix Engineer on "Rang Dang", "We Are The Knuckleheads" and "No Rest For The Wicked"

Versatone

Current users of Audio Guild equipment include producer Jon Brion, known for his soundtrack work on Punch-Drunk Love and other Paul Thomas Anderson films; session player Stephen Patt, a guitarist, and session player Chris Solberg (Santana, Eddie Money, Chris Isaak, George Lynch) who played bass using Carol Kaye's Versatone bass amp on such hits as Chris Isaak's Wicked Game.

Wicked Lester

The recording of Wicked Lester's album, which began in November 1971 at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, took place over multiple sessions and was finished in July 1972.


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