This may well be the earliest available version of Defying Gravity from the musical Wicked. Liz Callaway sings to a very small audience with Stephen Schwartz at piano in Baltimore, Maryland in October 2001. This was two years before the show would open on Broadway. Enjoy.

Transcript of Stehen Schwart's introduction of the song: "Some of you may know I’m working on a new show. It’s kind of early days for the show, a new show for the live theater. The show is called “Wicked.” It’s about the wicked witch of the west and how she became to be thus. And we thought we would do a sneak preview of one of the songs from the piece, even though, as I say, the show is a year or so away from happening. We’d love to do this, but the producer doesn’t know we’re doing this. So if any of you see Marc Platt, don’t tell him. So if you don’t tell him, we won’t. Anyway, I asked Liz to do this song for you this evening, even though there is nothing remotely witch-like about her. So you’ll just have to picture her all green. This is the song at the end of the first act where the wicked witch of the west comes into her own, feels her power happening for the first time.”

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