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Passions Spoofs Broadway's Wicked: Watch Preview!
Georgia Engel and Juliet Mills in Passions courtesy NBC
As previously reported, TV sitcom veteran Georgia Engel (Mary Tyler Moore, Everybody Loves Raymond) appears in the Friday, June 29 episode of Passions. Engle plays a good witch in the NBC soap's spoof of Broadway's Wicked.
TVGuide.com has a hilarious video clip of one of the musical numbers. Just visit our Passions show page to watch it!
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Jun 28, 2007 4:22 PM
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This is one of reasons that I love this soap 
Thanks Daniel
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Jun 28, 2007 5:52 PM
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You are most welcome. 
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Jun 28, 2007 6:02 PM
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It's the flights of fancy that keep me with this soap no matter how badly I want to scream over drawn out storylines
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Jun 29, 2007 10:13 AM
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Ok, I'm just about finished watching Passions, and it was a cool episode all around. I'm not a musical kind of guy, but I actually like it. Good episode, good. And on a off topic note, What an amazing poll question.
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Jun 29, 2007 3:02 PM
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The scoreboard for musical episodes on the soaps this year is One Life To Live 0, Passions 1.
Seriously, today's Wickedly funny episode of Passions was everything OLTL's take on High School Musical should've been. It was witty, entertaining, had great original music and, most importantly, it made sense within a storyline context.
Now I know it's a little easier for a far-out soap like Passions to put out an episode with song and dance included, but there's still no denying how disappointing OLTL's recent Broadway parody was. The cast--especially Kristen Alderson (Starr) and the young man who plays Cole--tried their hearts out, but they couldn't rise above the hokiness of the episode's scenes and music. What was intended to be must see daytime TV looked more like it was written with five-year-olds in mind. I felt like I was watching a rerun of Saved By the Bell.
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Jun 29, 2007 3:36 PM
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Well, despite the Passions being in a rut the last few years, the few shining lights have been Tabby, Endora, and their musicals.
First the Emmy winning "I Ain't Sorry," then the Emmy winning Bollywood number "Love is Ecstasy" and now the surely Emmy winning "Wicked" numbers.
Passions has had great musical direction (add the JRE tribute "Forever Near" to their Emmy list of winning songs.)
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Jun 29, 2007 5:28 PM
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I normally don't watch this show but had to for this one. I absolutely LOVED IT.
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Jun 30, 2007 10:13 AM
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I happened to be home of Friday and turned on Passions. WOW!!! This episode even without the musical elements was good. Tabitha and Endora are one of the best reasons to watch Passions and to find out some of the backstory of why Tabitha was evil was a treat.
Hopefully, the move to Direct TV will help finish some of these storylines. Because Passions is so wacky it does lend itself to becoming a musical more than OLTV. Who turns into a soap to watch High School Musical anyway?? Save that for Disney.
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Jun 30, 2007 7:39 PM
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Daniel,
Is Nicole Cox (Endora) leaving the show? The Friday, June 29th episode came across like a goodbye to Endora.
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Jul 2, 2007 3:22 AM
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Passions "spoofs" Wicked?
While I agree it was very well done, it was really more of a rip-off of Wicked than a spoof. The songs almost matched songs that appear in Wicked--which I also enjoyed very much after seeing it.
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Jul 2, 2007 3:22 AM
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Daniel,
I saw this Friday and it was a hoot! I loved it and as I have always said...I will miss this soap when it leaves network TV.
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Jul 2, 2007 8:25 PM
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