Wicked and Showtune Symbolism

I stumbled across this blog entry:

http://journals.aol.com/hsauls/Tighteningthecorset/entries/1387

I love how it talks about a musical touching someone on an individual level.

I am also glad to see something that approaches an intelligent discussion of "Wicked". Although I certainly do not want to give the impression that I don't think this musical is "awsome", I would love to see more people talking about what actually MAKES it awsome, instead of just sort of arbitrarily worshiping it.

While I'm not sure I totally embrace how the story from the novel was tweaked to suit the stage musical, I am impressed with how the musical version of Wicked fully explores the essential theme in the novel, which is that the invisible line between good and evil can become extremely blurry. Although I'm not going to list them now, (too tired) there are a number of places in the lyrics that use symbolism in the words to further this theme. It shows a lot of work really went into it.