The show will be directed by Joe Mantello, the actor and director best known for "Wicked" and "Other Desert Cities".
Had Slade shown some of Steenson's touches with the boot during the victory over Wasps – a game played in a wind best described as wicked – there would have been hosannas from on high.
"For all I knew, that flattened snakehead with the pink eyes and what looked like great long quills growing out of its snout was only a baby," writes Mr. King at his wicked best.
Schwartz, best known for "Wicked" and "Pippin," has been particularly active in the fight for equality as of late.
But he may have expressed his personality, and wicked humor, best on the catwalk.
Westboro believed that its members could best preach to the wicked by living among them.
But for all her stage and television work, she was most likely best known as the wicked, selfish and manipulative Aunt Pauline on the soap opera "The Secret Storm," a role she originated in 1954 and played through the 1960s.
Barry -- as he was then known -- often played Jimi Hendrix, Earth, Wind & Fire and Billie Holiday, but Maraniss writes that he was best known for "his wicked impression of Mick Jagger".
He's still best known for his delectably wicked first novel, "The Debt to Pleasure," which blends murder with gourmandise.
Nor is it a slam dunk for best musical at the Tony Awards ("Wicked" should offer stiff competition), which would ordinarily be a draw for what Mr. Landesman calls "a high-prestige endeavor" like this.
