Wicked (album)

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Wicked
Studio album
Released	December 16, 2003
Recorded	November 10, 2003
Genre	Showtunes
Length	71:17
Label	Decca Broadway
Producer	Stephen Schwartz

Wicked (Original Broadway Cast Recording) contains the songs from the Tony award-winning American musical Wicked, produced by Universal Pictures with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and a book by Winnie Holzman. It was recorded by the musical's original Broadway cast and released on December 16, 2003.

The cast recording received the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2005 and was certified platinum by the RIAA on November 30, 2006.

[edit] Track listing

1. "No One Mourns the Wicked" – Kristin Chenoweth, Ensemble – 6:40
2. "Dear Old Shiz" – Kristin Chenoweth, Ensemble – 1:26
3. "The Wizard and I" – Carole Shelley, Idina Menzel – 5:09
4. "What Is This Feeling?" – Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Ensemble – 3:32
5. "Something Bad" – William Youmans, Idina Menzel – 1:39
6. "Dancing Through Life" – Norbert Leo Butz, Kristin Chenoweth, Christoper Fitzgerald, Michelle Federer, Idina Menzel – 7:37
7. "Popular" – Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel – 3:44
8. "I'm Not That Girl" – Idina Menzel – 2:58
9. "One Short Day" – Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Ensemble – 3:03
10. "A Sentimental Man" – Joel Grey – 1:15
11. "Defying Gravity" – Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Ensemble – 5:53
12. "Thank Goodness" – Kristin Chenoweth, Carole Shelley, Norbert Leo Butz, Ensemble – 6:22
13. "Wonderful" – Joel Grey, Idina Menzel – 4:57
14. "I'm Not That Girl (Reprise)" – Kristin Chenoweth – 0:49
15. "As Long As You're Mine" – Idina Menzel, Norbert Leo Butz – 3:45
16. "No Good Deed" – Idina Menzel – 3:31
17. "March of the Witch Hunters" – Ensemble – 1:30
18. "For Good" – Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth – 5:06
19. "Finale" – Kristin Chenoweth, Ensemble – 1:41

[edit] Excised Songs

There are two songs featured in the play that are not featured on the cast recording. Those two songs are The Wizard and I (Reprise), which only lasts for a few seconds and is used as a bridge between scenes, and The Wicked Witch of the East, which was deemed too difficult to arrange for the album, and producers thought it would give too much of the plot away. No One Mourns The Wicked (Reprise) is attached to the beginning of "Thank Goodness" on the cast album.

[edit] Singles

In 2007, Idina Menzel, the original Broadway and West End Elphaba, re-recorded "Defying Gravity" as a solo version and released it as a single via iTunes.

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