‘Wicked’ Review: Cynthia Erivo And Ariana Grande In A Movie Musical Adaptation That Actually Eclipses The Broadway Stage Play
deadline.comThe movie version of Broadway’s beloved musical, Wicked has been a long time coming since the play’s opening in 2003, but it is finally here, and quite frankly not only soars cinematically, it exceeds all expectations.
In fact what director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, In The Heights) does here ranks with the best movie musicals, an innovative and quite stunning take that will not disappoint even the hardest core lovers of the stage version.
And this is only Part One (more on that later) Of course a magical descendant of one of the most celebrated movies of all time, 1939’s The Wizard Of Oz, and even before that L.
Frank Baum’s immortal book(s) first published in 1900, this take was based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 origin story of Elphaba and Galinda and the relationship between two BFFs whose lives go in wildly different directions in a world pre-Dorothy.
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