Husband and I decided to do the lottery since we’ve never done it before and $25/ticket for front row? Hell yeah! So we got there early and placed our names in the lottery and went across the street to get some Burger King before we both got hunger headaches. We then waited for them to draw the names.

Our names didn’t get drawn. In fact, the majority of the names that did get drawn were papers that were crumpled up and the people who won were the group of girls there for Teal Wicks last performance. So husband and I ended up buying tickets. Which sucked, but I had my heart set on seeing Wicked either way.

We had a two hour wait before the show so we went to the car, finished eating, talked, napped, woke up (we have a thing for sleeping in the car, you get use to it when you’re constantly pressed for time) and headed to the show. We got “limited” seats but uh, we were in the 3rd row! Didn’t seem very limited to me! In fact, we were so close up and you could see the facial expressions and the detail on the costumes! It was amazing. Wicked was a whole different show from where we were sitting! I spotted Nicolas Dromard in “No One Mourns The Wicked” and I also spotted DeeDee Hall! Husband played the “where’s Neka Zang” game every scene. I was bad a spotting her, those costumes are tricky! Haha.

So yes, like I said, it was Teal Wicks (SF productions main Elphaba)’s last day and she went through all of Act 1 just fine until… she hit the last note in “Defying Gravity” and stopped mid-note. In Act 2, Vicki Noon (the standby for Elphaba) took over. Vicki Noon is my favorite Elphaba! She did an amazing job for someone who had to jump in last minute. And of course, they had curtain call where Etai managed to make DeeDee slip and fall while they were running up (eep!) and where Kendra gave Teal her curtain call speech. It was the first “last” performance I’ve been to and the first show were there were no subs (besides in Act 2), yay!

Headed to Stage Door after debating if I should or not (a lot of people were there to see Teal Wicks). Chatted with Neka about Lush and beauty products lol. Nicolas looked confused when he got to us haha. Finally got to take a picture with both of them! They were talkin about something and husband was like “go take a picture with them” so I jumped in the middle during them talking and Nicolas was like “oh! picture? okay!” haha! Met Teal for the first time ever and missed taking a picture with Vicki, darn! Said bye to Neka and Nicolas on the way out and passed by them again on the way back to the BART station lol!

Went and had lunch/dinner and this amazing Thai place we discovered. Their brown fried rice is a m a z i n g. Seriously, its heavenly! Walked around the mall a bit and then went home!

Neka (ensemble/witch’s mother), me, Nicolas (Fiyero)

Me, Teal (Elphaba) and Vicki (in the background. Elphaba standby)

DELiCiOUS Pad Thai and Fried Rice!