Wicked

Wicked at Fabulous Fox Theatre - St. Louis

Some stories don't fade because they flip the script. Wicked begins in Oz, but it isn't the Oz you think you know. It asks what happens when a green-skinned outsider and a popular blonde end up thrown together, and it turns that collision into a stage musical about friendship, conflict and the messy space between them. On May 27, 2027, at 1:00 PM, that story comes to the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis.

A matinee start gives this outing a different feel. Make it a daytime date with a friend, a plan with someone who has loved this story for years, or a first-time trip into Oz for someone who has only heard the buzz. The score includes Defying Gravity, Popular and For Good. Those titles alone are enough to make a theatre fan's pulse jump. Hearing songs like these in a live production is a different experience from hearing them through earbuds. Live theatre puts story and music in the same room, and you feel every beat of it together.

This is a stage production, not a film screening. That matters if you want the pull of real performers, a real theatre and a story unfolding in front of you. Movie actors have not been announced for this booking, so the draw here is the musical itself: the rivalry, the bond and the questions about who gets called wicked and why. Bring someone you'd text after the show just to say, "Did you feel that?" Then grab your Wicked seats at the Fabulous Fox in St. Louis and make this one a plan worth looking forward to.