HAVING once queued for hours in New York’s Times Square hoping to get tickets for this show, without success, I wasn’t going to let it bypass me in Bristol this week.

And I wasn’t disappointed. The show undoubtedly appeals to teenage girls who were all having a ball as the untold story of the two witches from the Wizard of began to evolve.

In a delicious twist on the Oz story it emerged that the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch were best mates at sorcery school. Who would have thought it?

But we really weren’t there for the story or the suspense. This was good old fashioned musical production at its very best.

The costumes were breathtakingly stupendous to the point that any real plot wouldn’t have got a look in anyway.

Young and old were mesmerised by the colours, the fabrics and the sequins and that’s before we even get started on the stage sets.

Wow was a word that was used a lot as one scene replaced another. The lighting was, to borrow a cliché from the show, spellbinding.

This show had all the glamour and razamataz of a big old Hollywood musical and for a couple of glorious hours it was quite easy for the audience to submerge itself in make-believe.

And it was funny too, some fantastic one-liners, especially from the two witches played by Ashleigh Gray and Emily Tierney who fed each other lines with beautiful, exquisite timing.

I don’t give a hoot who killed Lucy Beale in EastEnders, for me last night was all about rooting for the Wicked Witch who as in all good fairy tales turned out to be quite a good ‘un really.

Wicked The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz is at the Bristol Hippodrome until Saturday, March 21.