The Wizard of Oz

We just purchased Wicked tickets for our family for Christmas and Birthday combined because of the love affair I have had with the movie The Wizard Of Oz since a small child.  I have played every part, know every line, sang every song in the musical, that was to be sung.  As a group, my cousin and I and his cousins would get together and divvy up the parts and it made it complete.  We knew the arm in arm hop-skip down the yellow brick road, as good as seen on T.V. and my grandmother would even let us use a little basket to play with to pretend one of us had a tiny dog named Toto.  Our Yellow brick Road was a dirt and somewhat rocky one, but we managed. 
Now it's my understanding that Wicked is the telling of the story of Wizard of Oz only from the Wicked Witches point of view.  I think this only because I have watch a few clips from the Internet and it looks as though Glenda the Good witch and she become friends.  Or at least try. 
I thinking of my own family I would place my loved ones with being characters as such: 
Jillian as Dorothy, she loves her dog, who has been her best friend for 9 years. She would love to travel and see the Crown Heads of Europe and  the see the world and all its grandeur.  Sometimes when she is alone she thinks of those she has left behind in her whirlwind.  Also when things gets into sticky situations and she wants to runaway from things that are evil in nature, she is for Good. In the truth she loves her home, and her family and knows that there's no place like home. 
Jamin, the Scarecrow, who wanted to ask the Wizard for a Brain, she thinks she's not that intelligent, but in reality she's the smartest of them all.  She's found that it was her common sense and quick wit that kept them laughing and loving each other and theirs bonds so tightly bound.  She has compassion and kindness a truer knowledge than cannot come from a book.
John as the Tin Man, who can sometime seem shallow and unfeeling and hard to get to know.  One who keeps his feelings to himself and bottles them up, not showing them to others unless he has to. But all the while his big heart is huge and carries a great love for his family, and so much that he can not admit to it.  When they hurt, it hurts him, it breaks his heart as well.  A man who would put his family's needs before his own needs at any moments.
 Joy as the Cowardly Lion goes to me, and all the fears that I am still working on in my life that causes me the most hurt.  It is being afraid to love people after I have been hurt so many times. When you touch a hot stove and get burned a few times, you tend to stay away, and that's exactly what I have done.  I don't go anywhere if I can help it. Like the Lion I put up a defense, a shield to protect my heart sometimes.  It seems that sometimes I do need the powers of a wizard to get over the fears that I have carried with me for so long.  But like the Lion, he had it inside himself as well to get over it and move on.  This is what with the help of my family, I will too.  One step at a time.
Luckily, the wizard that I want to see lives in a much different place, and one day I want to see Him, for I know we will indeed have a lot to talk about.  It won't be green like Emerald City either, but beautiful street of gold, and angelic music all the time, not the annoying kind, but soft and peaceful flowing kind that just soothes your soul.  Everyone will be glad to see you, and there won't be any hate or sadness, or sickness.  This will truly be a home like I have never know.  With my heavenly Father I will be able to tell Him things and talk about everything.  I know this is a strange little analogy but it works, you see, we are all different, whether you are like the Tin man, or the Lion, or Dorothy or even the Scarecrow.  Which one are you?  What would you tell the Wizard once you get to Oz?  I have so many questions that I want to ask.  So many.
Their attributes fits our lives for today's society and you can apply it and live and hopefully grow.  Never stop growing...or better ourselves in a positive light. Whatever path you are on, one step at time is closer than yesterday to becoming who we are meant to be.