Something Wicked This Way Comes!

I promise you I am not making any of this up. As I think about everything that's happened over the last few months regarding our Wicked desire, it's kind of surreal the way it all turned out.

When we heard the broadway hit was finally making it's way to Salt Lake City we marked the day on our calender and waited. The cold December day that we could finally buy tickets arrived. After I dropped Sarah off at school I headed downtown at about 7:30 a.m. to wait my turn in line in hopes of getting tickets for the girls as Christmas gifts. Since it didn't open until 10:00 AM I thought I was doing good on time. Little did I know the line had started forming the night before and wound it's way for miles on end through the snowy streets of Salt Lake City. I decided to go to Abravenal Hall and see if I could get some at their box office. When it finally opened at 10 a.m. the hundred or so people in front of me heard that they had sold out. Ten minutes later it had.  We were so sad but I just knew a way would be presented for us to see the show.

A week before opening night we pulled out our favorite section of Sunday's Deseret News  and found out there would be a daily drawing of 10 sets of two tickets for the duration of the show. Alas, the glimmer of hope we had been looking for. And so our nightly trek to the Capitol began. I found the picture below on ABC 4's website.  

The following clip was seen on Fox 13 News. If you look at the counter on the bottom right hand corner we are shown in the blink of an eye at 33 sec. and 39 seconds. Sarah was also shown on a different news channel kissing her entry ticket.

After more than a dozen trips downtown, rubbing elbows with a half dozen homeless people, my friend Paige, and hundreds of other hopefuls our glimmer of hope turned into a dream come true.  You've heard the saying,  a picture's worth a thousand words- well here it is:

Deseret News

There were well over 300 people present and 14 of the 20 tickets had already been given out. When Sarah heard her name we were in shock! Oh my goodness, you'd have thought we won American Idol. It was so cool!  Apparently, the one and only time Deseret News chose to do a story about the ticket lottery was that day. And there we were right in the middle of it. While I was paying for our tickets the photographer asked my girl Sarah what our names were. I guess he just assumed our relation since it appeared in the paper that we were sisters! Ha! That's what he gets for assuming.

My goal in going day after day was just to get enough tickets for my girls to see the show on the very stage they'd danced on the month before. The oldest two got to go and my hope is that I can land one more ticket for my sweet Kate. If needs be, I will resort to e-bay or Craig's list to get her a seat of her own. 

The luckiest girls of the night! 

The girls said Elphaba and Glinda were AMAZING! Although they've been singing the songs for years, they never knew who it all fit together until that night. They laughed and cried and said they had their jaws dropped almost the entire night.

This is what they looked liked when I picked them up. A day we will not soon forget!