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Broadway shots 2022

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Mary Kate Morrissey | A Wicked Roundtable: 20 Years of Elphaba

#nooooooooooo #oh my goddd #mkm the woman you are god #mary kate morrissey

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every now and then i recall how glinda cut one of her worker's salary for a month because he didn't let liir into her house, nevermind at that point liir was just some random urchin claiming he knew elphaba and there was no way of knowing who he was. and then when glinda did meet liir she realized immediately he was elphaba's son and she recognized elphaba's cape (which she hadn't seen in at least 7 years??) and "reached for it hungrily" and she started breaking things and she burst into tears and she threw the broom into the fire while liir just stood there like 👁️👄👁️

what the fuck was her problem honestly. i love her.

#god I love her #wicked

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#OHHH MY GODDDD #THIS IS CRAZY GOOD

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#dear god #wicked years

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"how can you like this objectively bad thing!" because i have bad taste. move on.

#feeling called out #wicked #wicked the life and times of the wicked witch of the west

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glin dyed elphies hair pink once and now elphie does it voluntarily

#yeah im working on a oneshot #it does not involve this but it does involve hair #pink hair elphie is something i quite like #mkm was onto something #glinda upland #galinda upland #gelphie #wicked #wicked the musical #elphaba thropp #wicked the life and times of the wicked witch of the west

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How it feels rn

#real #wicked

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Lucie Jones as Elphaba in WICKED

#she is so beautiful god #wicked #elphaba thropp

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Elphaba: Can't wait to eat my sandwich lol

Glinda for no fucking reason:

#literally #such a solid moment #wicked

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i just realized book nessa's shoes are neither silver or ruby... they are made of silver glass beads. which enhances the refractive effect as there's a lot of emphasis on that esp reflecting red. silver-lined i assume. the musical apparently makes then explicitly glow under red light with elphaba's magic but the effect is not permanent

like if these if they were covered in these

historically, woz was written in 1900, i found an shoe circa 1900 from the netherlands, and other antiques, i don't know if they're wearable. but the style remind me of the one in the movie. yay they did something right? i also see beads all over kind of... i know turtle heart the glassblower won't exist in movie universe but it's cool

#missing nessa content atm #shoes

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two friends, two good friends, two best friends,

#GAY #art

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There is just something about the union of someone who has trouble seeing herself as human because she has been treated as a monster, and someone who has trouble seeing herself as human because it she has been performing godly perfection for as long as she can remember

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Friendly reminder that people are allowed to be apprehensive about the Wicked movie. Fans of the Broadway show have been waiting YEARS for this movie to be made, but unfortunately it's being dropped during a time where adaptations of Broadway shows just aren't hitting the same, because they're not being catered to the right audience.

Even if you overlook the casting, and the fact that they're not even being marketed as the genre (the saving grace with this one is that most people know that Wicked is a musical), the actual musical aspect is enough to trigger a fear of the unknown.

I've seen a lot of people defending the most recent Mean Girls movie by saying, of course the music is going to be different, because it's a different medium and the stage version won't translate well on screen. And I do partially understand that, I get that changes need to be made for it to work better, but they changed the arrangements of the songs entirely, and I think that has more to do with trying to hit a different audience than it does about screen translation. It's a weak excuse when you look at the bigger picture.

Movie adaptions of musicals have been made throughout cinema history, and SO many of them have been successful for the right reasons, and some of them were even recent. Grease, Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, West Side Story, Tick, Tick... Boom!, Chicago, The Sound of Music, In the Heights, Matilda—the list is endless. And, sure, there are issues with each and every one of them, things we can complain about, stuff we can pick apart, but the one thing that's consistent is that they all have the right energy. Changes were made because they needed to be, but the music and the vibe stayed the same. There's no excuse to revamp the entire thing.

Which brings us back to the fear of how they're going to handle Wicked. If "movie musicals shouldn't have as much music in them to balance it out" then what are we doing here? Because Wicked, in particular, is a musical where the score acts as a driving force for the plot, and if you're going to take half of that out to cater to an audience that doesn't like musicals, or change the arrangements, revamp the numbers etc. then it isn't going to work.

Obviously, we can't judge it too harshly yet, because we've had a 1 minute teaser trailer, but please remember that fans are allowed to be apprehensive.

And, side note, creators of movie musicals need to stop trying to make musicals for people that don't like them. If they focus on their target audience, then they'll be successful—that's filmmaking 101 and should not have to be said but here we are.

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The lesbian flag, but it's colour-picked from 1939 Glinda

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"Elphie, you mustn't think that way anymore..."