Wicked

Last night, my wife and I chaperoned a school field trip. Our two boys participate in their middle school chorus and the director planned a trip to the Boston Opera House to see the Broadway musical WICKED.

What a wonderful musical. The music captures your heart. The acting draws you into the story. And the set is very imaginative. Here is a brief synopsis:
Long before Dorothy dropped 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. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.

There are a few lines from one of the songs (Wonderful) I keep replaying in my head this morning: There are precious few at ease/With moral ambiguities/So we act as though they don't exist.

Sounds a little like some church folk I know these days.......

(Do you think my good Christian family will get second looks when they wear their WICKED apparel out in public? Maybe they'll even wear the clothes to a church service.)