PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) -- The past week has brought emotion, laughter and stunning music and dancing on the Prairie Home Alliance Theater in Peoria as Wicked is in the middle of its Peoria stop of the national tour.

Jada Temple, who plays Nessarose, and Nicolas Garza, who plays Boq, shared what they love about the show they perform in night after night.

"I feel like every single place that we go to, the audience is the missing piece, the puzzle piece in there, like the last character in the play," Temple said.

"There's a lot of gratitude within the company, not just the actors, because we're like, 'Oh, it's a dream,' all excited to be here, but also the crew. There's crews that have been here from the beginning of this tour, and there's a reason," said Garza.

Temple said she loves how exc

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