Wicked Witch Lands on Empire State Building

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Photos courtesy of the Empire State Building.

lightingesbwicked.jpgThe Empire State Building started celebrating Halloween a little early today, as Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz and Kerry Ellis (aka Elphaba, pictured) came to light the ESB green. This is all in celebration of the show's 5th anniversary on Broadway. Variety recently noted that "after five years on the Gotham boards, the perennial top dog of Rialto sales has racked up the kind of numbers that make Hollywood sit up: Universal Pictures, the studio that first optioned the 1995 novel and one of the producers of the tuner, says Wicked counts among its most profitable properties." The flagship New York show itself has weekly tallies that often surpass $1.4 million! Guess they have a lot to celebrate.

As for this Friday's Halloween celebration, expect to see the Empire State building lit up in orange, black and white.

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She can ride my broomstick any day

look to the western sky!

Eden Espinosa > Idina Menzel

#4- O Hell No! Idina is the best. she looks like a shilf (she-Hulk i'd like to fuck)

Call me Captain Kirk, but I'd hit it.

Stop right here. OK the bitch be hot, but really wouldn't you be worried if her father showed up?

Can't beat Irish girls for good looks.

HA! @ Felix Hoenikker.

Green women.

I just logged on to try be the first witty commenter to say "I'd hit that" - I failed.

The building is going to light up black?

Did they enlist the help of Hotblack Desiato?

did anyone get that instead of bitch I said witch?

not even one lol?

#6: i'm taking about singing, not looks, sorry to disappoint you but i'm merely a slave to the situation.

14
I was thinking the same thing.

They should light the ESB up like a candy corn with orange, white, and yellow.

And that is definitely a shilf, like babyhitler said.

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