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This Wicked only covers the first half of Stephen Schwartz’s Broadway musical but begins at the end, opening with Elphaba’s death at the hands of a certain girl (and her little dog, too) and ...
Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo, left) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) are school rivals who become best friends in the musical "Wicked," a prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" based on the Broadway show.
In director Jon M. Chu’s prequel and origin story — based on the long-running Broadway musical which debuted in 2003 — she’s Elphaba Thropp (Cynthia Erivo), a shy, misunderstood young ...
I agree that Wicked needs a lot of clean-up, and streamlining, but, as I pointed out to Z1720 elsewhere, while WP:RS/P states that BroadwayWorld is not a reliable source "for biographies of living persons", it is a standard source for use in musicals for basic production information like production dates and casts (though Playbill, IBDB, etc ...
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.
Related: Wicked Review: Ariana Grande Steals the Show in an Oz-some Adaptation of the Hit Broadway Musical But the book spends much more time laying out the social, political and ethical ...
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.
Much like The Wizard of Oz, the first Wicked movie is designed for the whole family: kids can enjoy its colorful world-building and bubbly characters, adults can appreciate its timely real-world ...