PHOEBE BODURTHA: (SINGING) Did that really just happen?
Have I actually understood?
This weird quick I tried to suppress or hide
is a talent that could help me meet the wizard if I make good?
So I'll make good.
When I meet the wizard, once I prove my worth.
Then I meet the wizard, what I've
waited for since, since birth.
And with all his wizard wisdom, by my looks,
he won't be blinded.
Do you think the wizard is dumb, or like, Munchkins, so
small-minded?
No.
He'll say to me, "I see who you truly are,
a girl on whom I can rely."
And that's how we'll begin, the wizard and I.
Once I'm with the wizard, my whole life will change.
'Cause once you're with the wizard,
no one thinks your strange.
No father is not proud of you.
No sister asks ashamed.
And all of Oz has to love you when by the wizard
you're acclaimed.
And this gift or this curse I have inside, maybe at last,
I'll know why, as we work hand in hand, the wizard and I.
Yes, one day he'll say to, "Elphaba,
a girl who is so superior, shouldn't a girl who's so good
inside have a matching exterior?
And since folks here to an absurd degree
seem fixated on your verdigris, would it be all right by you
if I de-greenify you?
And of course, that's not important to me.
Well, all right, why not, I'll reply.
Oh, what a pair we'll be, the wizard and I. Yes, what a pair
we'll be, the wizard and--
Unlimited.
My future is unlimited.
And I just had a vision almost like a prophesy.
I know it sounds truly crazy.
And true, the vision's hazy.
But I swear someday, there'll be a celebration throughout Oz
that's all to do with me.
And I'll stand there with the wizard,
feeling things I've never felt. And though I'd never show it,
I'd be so happy, I could melt. And so it'll
be for the rest of my life.
I'll want nothing else till I die.
Held in such high esteem.
When people see me, they will scream for half of Oz'
favorite team, the wizard and I.
Thank you so much for coming out and listening today.
First, I want to thank the lovely Max [? Ghoshal, ?]
[? 2L ?] on piano.
That song, for those of you who don't know,
that song was "The Wizard and I" from Wicked.
This last is song is called "Stars and the Moon"
from the Jason Robert Brown musical, Songs for a New World.
(SINGING) I met a man without a dollar
to his name, who had no traits of any value but his smile.
I met a man who had no yearn or claim
to fame, who was content to let life pass him for a while.
And I was sure that all I ever wanted
was a life like the movie stars led.
But he kissed me right here, and he
said, "I'll give you stars and the moon
and a soul to guide you and a promise I'll never go.
I'll give you hope to bring out all the life inside you
and the strength that will help you grow.
I'll give you truth and a future that's 20 times better
than any Hollywood plot."
And I thought, you know?
I'd rather have a yacht.
I met a man who lived his life out
on the road, who left a wife and kids in Portland on whim.
I met a man whose fire and passion always showed,
who asked if I could spare a week to ride with him.
And I was sure that I all I ever wanted
was a life that was scripted and planned.
And he say, "but you don't understand.
I'll give you stars and the moon and the open highway
and a river beneath your feet.
I'll give you days full of dreams if you travel my way
and a summer you can't repeat.
I'll give you nights full of passion and days of adventure.
No strings, just warm summer rain."
And I thought, you know, I'd rather have champagne.
I met a man who had a fortune in the bank, who had retired
at age 30, set for life.
I met a man and didn't know which stars to thank.
And then he asked one day if I would be his wife.
And I looked up, and all I could think of
was the life I had dreamt I would live.
And I said to him, "What will you give?"
"I'll give you cars and a townhouse in Turtle Bay
and a fur and a diamond ring.
And we'll be married in Spain on a yacht today,
and we'll honeymoon in Beijing.
And you'll meet stars at the parties
I throw at my villas in Nice and Paris in June.
And I thought, OK.
And I took a breath.
And I got my yacht.
And the years went by.
And it never changed, and it never grew,
and I never dreamed, and I woke one day, and I looked around,
and I thought, my God, I'll never have the moon.
[CHEERING]