Left: Marc Platt, the producer of Wicked and Pikesville High School graduate, class of 1975. Right: Wicked wraps up its fifth run at the Hippodrome in Baltimore on January 11. Left photo: Courtesy Marc Platt Productions / Right photo: John Lee/WYPR
Left: Marc Platt, the producer of Wicked and Pikesville High School graduate, class of 1975. Right: Wicked wraps up its fifth run at the Hippodrome in Baltimore on January 11. Left photo: Courtesy Marc Platt Productions / Right photo: John Lee/WYPR

More than 20 years on Broadway. Two major films. Touring shows. “Wicked” has been an entertainment phenomenon for a generation.

“Wicked’s” producer, Marc Platt, credits his music education at Pikesville High School in Baltimore County for helping to put him on the path to telling stories on the stage and screen.

Outside the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore earlier this week, people were going in to see “Wicked,” which wraps up its fifth run in town this weekend.

Read more (and listen) at WYPR.