I won a pair of tickets to Wicked, the musical based on the Wizard of Oz characters, and went to see the show last night. It wouldn’t normally be the kind of thing I’d go to but my girlfriend is a fan of the original Wizard of Oz film and the tickets were free.

I really did enjoy it, I guess any live entertainment like this is always fun, something has to be REALLY bad before I’d actually consider it a waste of time, but the production was colourful, energetic and imaginative. The story was interesting, a nice twist on the old tale, even if the plot had all the subtlety of a Jeremy Kyle pep talk, but it is a musical after all. I’d recommend it, it was fun.

Oh, and I eventually got used to people spontaneously bursting into song mid sentence. I was able to suspend my disbelief but if it ever happens on the tube I’m leaving the country.