WICKED

Director: Jon M. Chu
Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode, Bowen Yang, Bronwyn James, Keala Settle, Peter Dinklage

The smash hit musical Wicked has been dazzling audiences all over the world for the last twenty-one years. The long-awaited movie musical adaptation is finally here and lives up to the incredibly high expectations. Wicked is the origin story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz and how she became wicked. The musical has been adapted from the Gregory Maguire novel of the same name. It opens with Ariana Grande’s Glinda the Good Witch addressing the people of Munchkinland with the announcement that the Wicked Witch is dead. The story then flashes back to their younger days when they were friends at Shiz University. Glinda was a popular, perky, blonde student, and Elphaba (Erivo) was her studious and magical roommate. Elphaba’s green skin and effortless approach to magic is spotted from the moment she arrives at Shiz. Her abilities are unlike any other student, and head mistress Madame Morrible (Yeoh) knows how to secretly take advantage of her with the help of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Goldblum).  

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