Chicago Wicked Releases New Block of Tickets through Nov.

Now entering its third year of sold-out performances at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, the record-breaking Chicago company of Wicked will soon enable a new block of tickets for purchase.  Tickets for performances July 31 – November 4, 2007 will go on-sale to the public on Friday, May 11 at 10 a.m. 

Tickets range in price from $25 - $90 and are available via the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (312) 902-1400, in person at all Broadway In Chicago box offices (Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre; Cadillac Palace Theatre; LaSalle Bank Theatre), all Ticketmaster ticket centers and online at ticketmaster.com.

Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman.  The musical is currently presented in Chicago, on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre, on a national tour, in Los Angeles at the Pantages Theatre and in London at the Apollo Victoria Theatre.

"Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz.  One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood.  The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular.  Wicked tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch," state press notes.

The Chicago company performs in an open-run at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, 24 W. Randolph St.  Setting multiple box office records since opening in spring 2005, Wicked is the top grossing show in Chicago theatre history.

For more information, visit www.wickedthemusical.com/chicago.