Earlier this summer, it was announced that the upcoming movie adaptation of the 2003 hit Broadway musical Wicked will be released in two parts, beginning in 2024. This is the latest news about a project long awaited, for which fans were already impatient when COVID-19 brought innumerable works to a screeching halt, or at least an ambivalent pause, two years ago.
While in our current climate my own expectations for the films are not held particularly high, I have long been a fan of Wicked and have most of the music memorized. Much of the pleasure is purely aesthetic, or specifically musical, for the obvious reason that in that respect it is truly a splendid production. But this is not to discount the story and characters, which are in fact enjoyable and well-done. The story centrally focuses on the relationship between Elphaba, eventually known as the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda (formerly Galinda), who obtains the epithet “the Good.” (On that note, from here on out there will be spoilers.)
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