Limited double vinyl LP pressing. Wicked is a cast recording containing the majority of the songs from the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Wicked with music and lyrics by composer Stephen Schwartz and a book by writer Winnie Holzman. The cast recording has received positive reviews and has received substantial commercial success. It received the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2005. Composer and lyricist of Wicked Stephen Schwartz produced the album aided by Frank Filipetti Jill Dell Abate Jason Spears Justin Shturtz Jason Stasium and Ted Jensen. The original cast album of Wicked was recorded on November 10 2003 with the full cast and orchestra at then-Right Track Studios and mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City.