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Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is a loose adaptation of the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , which in turn is based on L. Frank Baum 's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation .
Warning: Some spoilers for Wicked ahead.. Grab your popcorn: Wicked will have audiences in their seats for nearly three hours. Part 1 of the soon-to-be-released musical fantasy film has a runtime ...
On the stage, “Wicked” runs 2 hours and 45 minutes, with a 15-minute intermission. By comparison, the film version runs 2 hours and 41 minutes, although it only covers Act 1 of the musical and ...
When it closed on January 13, 2002, it had run for 42 years and 17,162 performances, making it the world's longest-running musical. The current longest-running musical on Broadway is The Phantom of the Opera, which opened in 1988 and played its final performance in 2023. [129] M denotes a musical and P denotes a straight play.
Wicked (titled onscreen as Wicked: Part I) is a 2024 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox.It is the first installment of a two-part film adaptation of the stage musical of the same name by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which is loosely based on the 1995 novel, in turn based on the Oz books and the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
Wicked release date. Universal's musical event, "Wicked," will be released Nov. 22 in major theaters. How long is Wicked movie? The film runs 2 hours and 41 minutes.
Despite its nearly three-hour runtime, “Wicked” only covers the first act of the hit Broadway musical, with a second film scheduled for release in late 2025.
This is a list of the longest-running shows (3,000 performances or more) in the West End, a well known professional theatre district in London.Nine currently running shows (two plays, seven musicals) have played more than 3,000 performances: The Mousetrap, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia!, The Lion King, Wicked, Matilda, The Book of Mormon, and The Play That Goes Wrong.