Wicked (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Wicked
Type = studio
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Released = December 16, 2003
Recorded = November 10, 2003
Genre = Showtunes
Length = 71:17
Label = Decca Broadway
Producer = Stephen Schwartz
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"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.

Track listing

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

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.

ingles

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

Kerry Ellis, Elphaba in London's West End, recorded rock versions of the songs "Defying Gravity" and "I'm Not That Girl" for her 2008 sample album "Wicked in Rock", produced by Queen's Brian May.

Fifth anniversary special edition

A fifth-anniversary special edition of the original Broadway soundtrack will be released on October 25, 2008, with a bonus CD featuring alternate versions of the songs, including tracks from the Japanese and German cast recordings, "I'm Not That Girl" by Kerry Ellis and Brian May, Menzel's dance mix of "Defying Gravity" and "For Good" sung by LeAnn Rimes and Delta Goodrem.cite news | first=Andrew | last=Gans | title=Anniversary Edition of Wicked CD to Feature Bonus Tracks by Rimes, Goodrem and Menzel | date=2008-09-26 | url =http://www.playbill.com/news/article/121808.html | work =Playbill | accessdate = 2008-09-28 ]

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