Look up ahead!

It was a cold and windy day in New York City on October 29, 2006. It was also the annual “Wicked Day” that marks the anniversary of the opening of the Broadway musical Wicked! To help celebrate I took my family to the event.

There were probably several thousand people at the Wicked Day in New York City.

The lines moved quickly.

The lines to get in moved rather quickly and they had two booths for guests to pass through. When you got to the booth you were given a bag full of goodies and six tickets to use. Each bag had a Wicked Day pin, Wicked Day fan (not that you needed one with that wind we had) and one of two CDs. All three of our CDs were the Defying Gravity/For Good variety though I did hear some people say they got one with Popular on it.

One of the theatre posters.

My wife spent one of her tickets to get hair painted green and another to get a witch painted on her cheek. My daughter spent one on cotton candy and two at the craft area to make a pumpkin and a magic wand.

As the wind built up, we headed over to the game area. My daughter and I each tried our luck at the dice game and the wheel of fortune. It was my daughters lucky day as she rolled double Elphaba's on the dice and won the wheel of fortune game. We left those booths with a good supply of Wicked branded goods!

There was also a picture booth where you put your face in a cut-out picture. For one ticket my daughter became Elphaba!

While my daughter and I were busy playing games my wife was busy buying things. She picked up a t-shirt for each of us, a key chain, a brownie (for a ticket), rubber bracelets (Wicked, Popular and Defying Gravity) and a free balloon.

It was almost time for the singing finals so we wandered over to the singing contest area.

On the way there my wife purchased another Wicked pin (this one was to benefit AIDS research) and an autographed photo (Megan Hilty) of Glinda for my daughter.

The singers were all good and it was great fun to watch and listen to them.

It's the Wizard, David Garrison!

Actor David Garrison, who plays the wizard, was one of the judges! I think Ana Gasteyer, who currently plays Elphaba, was also one of the judges but my pictures of her all have heads in the way so I can't be sure!

Sarah from New Jersey was the winner!

After the singing was over the Wicked Day event winded it's way down. We all had fun and we plan on seeing the show next year.

For more information on Wicked Day why not check out the official Wicked Day website!

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