"Wicked" flies high, crossing $450M worldwide! A magical box office journey with Erivo & Grande. Don't miss this enchanting tale!

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I saw the Wicked Movie.

Before seeing it, here's what I wrote down.

I'm seeing Wicked in the cinema today. I have high expectations. Usually, when a stage musical is adapted for the screen, I complain about three things:

1)The correct way to make a faithful film adaption of a musical or play is to stage it and point a camera at the stage. Filming it as a movie inherently changes the character of the story.

2)They cut some scenes that are important to understanding the plot, or they cut songs that I really like.

3)They cast actors who can't sing in singing roles. Sometimes, they instead cast singers who aren't very good actors in acting roles.

In the case of Wicked, my hope is that none of these three issues will be a problem.

First, Oz is a big sandbox. The musical is an unfaithful adaption of a book, which is itself an unfaithful retelling of another book. Baum wrote a lot of Oz stories across several mediums that aren't consistent with each other. There has been a lot of Oz media by other authors since then, some of which is better than what Baum wrote. This adaption might not be "faithful" to the stage version, but I don't think that's a bad thing.

The filmmakers have split the musical into two films. The first film is three hours long and adapts just act one. Hence, they have very little incentive to cut things from the musical, and they are more likely to add stuff instead. Maybe there will be new material adapted from the book of Wicked, or from earlier Oz media, or wholly original.

Last but certainly not least, they cast Cynthia Erivo, arguably the greatest musical theater actor alive, in the lead role. I know less about the rest of the cast. Maybe the other actors will be bad. Maybe the new material they write will be bad. But if the movie ends with Erivo singing "Defying Gravity," I think that will wash away whatever bad feelings I have about the rest of the film.

So with sky-high expectations, how does the movie live up?

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I was sceptical & hesitant to see the movie as not my typical movie interest, (even if in a former life I played the Wizard on a small community stage). However, I thoroughly enjoyed it and was impressed with the entire cast - especially Cynthia Erivo. In addition, a quote for our times: "The Best Way To Bring Folks Together Is To Give Them A Real Good Enemy." Looking forward to Part 2!

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A defying gravity kind of day … 💚🩷
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