Ariana Grande’s and Cynthia Erivo’s performances as Glinda and Elphaba will have you defying gravity.
Discussions first began in 2004, with everyone from J. J. Abrams to Ryan Murphy attached at various points.
If you’re a fan of Wicked, there’s no more you could ask for.
Instead, it spends more time extending its scenes, allowing more room for characters to develop.
What it allows room for is comprehensive and visually arresting worldbuilding.
This is a unique and spellbinding world that’s unlike anything audiences have seen before.
Naturally though, it’s Cynthia Erivo who truly steals the show.
Poignant themes
It’s the chemistry between the pair throughout that makes these performances truly phenomenal.
Most poignantly too because it’s through Elphaba and Glinda that the most heartwrenching themes are explored.
Propaganda, racism, and facism are all underlying the narrative, but it remains a tale of hope.
And while Wicked is only one half of this story, it never feels incomplete.
But at this rate?
I don’t think anything can bring them down.
Wicked: Part One is released in theaters on November 22.
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