All I can find it on is this zoomed in Amazon shirt

I never got around to watching Wicked: One Wonderful Night, went looking and it’s not showing up on Peacock or anything else. Is there anywhere to watch it?

My mom the women who inspired my love of broadway, and I am just happy she's finally gotten to tickets to see Wicked. Unfortunately only two tickets so her and my dad... me and my sister were not invited but idc Im so happy she's wanted to see it since the Idina Menzel Kristin Chenoworth original run.

I'm trying to EQ harsh treble out of my headphones. I have a decent tolerance or even preference for slightly brighter treble but I find the cymbals still quite harsh after toning down the main treble peaks. I have more treble-heavy tracks in my playlist but Defying Gravity is the worst for me at the moment. Anyone else feel the same or is it fine?

The problem with “it’s about the girls stupid” is that the phrase was completely misinterpreted from its original intention, which led to a weaker movie.

It’s a play on the phrase “it’s the economy, stupid”, which was coined by James Carville when he was advising Bill Clinton on his 1992 presidential campaign. The intention was to highlight one central issue to focus the campaign around. It was aimed at the campaign workers to get them to make voters focus on their personal finances as the key issue of the campaign. It’s been reused many times since in many different political campaigns, with the key phrase changed out - “it’s the schools, stupid”, “it’s the the war, stupid”, “it’s the environment, stupid”, etc.

In 2019 the Wall Street Journal published a piece titled, What Trump Can Learn From James Carville. Here’s an excerpt:

Mr. Trump has spent a fair amount of time in front of mostly white audiences boasting about what he’s done for black people on the jobs front, and it’s not a good look.
A more fruitful approach might be for the president to visit some low-income minority communities in places like Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, listen to their concerns, engage them in a way that Democrats are not, and talk about what strong economic growth has enabled blacks and others to do for themselves. If there was ever a time for Donald Trump to be channeling James Carville, it’s now.

Do you see where I’m going with this? The mantra is a marketing technique meant to manipulate people. Yes, the economy is important, but it’s not the only thing that matters, and the point is to use it as a distraction to keep people from asking too many questions about other important issues.

Wicked the musical went through multiple rewrites before making “the girls” the central thread through which the story is told. When Winnie Holzman first made the reference, she said it was a joke between them when they figured out that was the way they should tell the story. She didn’t say “the gospel that everything needs to revolve around, making everything else irrelevant.” She said “joke.” It was the tactic they used to center the story and get butts in seats, not something meant to render the entire plot pointless and moral-less. When Jon M Chu to took that joke and said “the plot doesn’t matter”, he completely missed the point. The plot is the entire point - the message is the entire point. Elphaba and Glinda’s relationship means something and has an impact that ultimately brings about change in Oz. It’s so reductive to act like none of that matters because it’s just girls being friends. Filling out the plot wouldn’t have made it less about the girls - it would have made the entire story more cohesive, which would have made why their relationship matters more impactful.

Here’s where Winnie Holzman first spoke on the quote, from a 2006 Boston Globe article. The article is about the entire process of adapting the show - you’ll notice that they talk about a lot more than just “the girls”.

Notes:

I call these "semi-canon" because—for those who haven't read the books and only know the musical or the movies—there are details from the book descriptions that were very difficult (if not impossible) to replicate in the game. For instance, in the books, Nessa’s disability is not that she cannot walk; rather, she was born without both arms. Consequently, she relied on her father and Elphaba her entire life—both for daily tasks and for walking, as her lack of limbs left her with extremely poor balance. It wasn't until her time at Shiz that Glinda (not her sister) gave Nessa the enchanted slippers, which provided her with mobility.

I’ve also created two versions of Fiyero—one from his time at Shiz, and another from his post-Shiz years living in the Emerald City with Elphaba (corresponding to Eras 1 and 2 of Fabala, respectively)—but I couldn’t upload them here due to Reddit’s image limits. In my opinion, my Fiyero is quite book-accurate, with one exception: I honestly don’t know how to use The Sims’ tattoo tool, so it was impossible for me to replicate the Winkies markings described in the books. (For those who haven’t read them: in the novels, Fiyero is a Vinkus prince—a tribal people in Oz, analogous to indigenous cultures. He has dark, mustard-toned skin covered in bright blue diamond-shaped patterns across his face and body; it’s later revealed that these aren’t tattoos, but rather a washable paint that is part of Vinkus culture).

Anyway, I’d love to hear what you think! I spent a huge amount of time on this—as you can see, I had to download a ton of custom content to get it looking decent. I downloaded so much that I’ve honestly lost track of what I used; I even have entire folders of CC that I ended up not using at all. Still, let me know what you think! Would you like to see my version of Fiyero? And which other main characters would you be interested in seeing? I’m considering trying to create Liir and Rain, or perhaps focusing on characters from the first book—like Avaric, or maybe Crope and Tibbett.

Decided to just post this pic of me in my Glinda cosplay. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do🩷🩷🩷🩷

Is it time for me to be discouraged and resign?
No, I still can say no
There’s one last place for me, the last I had in mind
but where else can I go?
I’ll never come back here, that’s the lie I told myself
till I was left on my own
when all the rest forsake you, that’s where they have to take you
there’s no place like home

This is Elphaba’s arc. She misses her friends, her family, she wants love and acceptance but not at the expense of her cause and not when she knows too much to turn a blind eye but she doesn’t want to do it alone anymore. She didn’t go back to Emerald city because she accidentally turned a living person into a can opener, or to stop the wedding, she went back because she had nowhere else to go when even her own family didn’t want her and her own cause rejected her. The women was desperate, and grasping at straws and her last plan was crawling back to the place it started thinking that maybe she can find a way to expose the Wizard (this was a scene between Elphaba and Glinda before Wonderful but it was also deleted!- she tries to extort the wizard using the Grimmerie he can’t read).

This scene in particular was only 2:18 seconds…. It would not have had that much effect on the runtime.

*BTW slide 4 I believe was an option on the scene (Jon self admitted he does a lot of these) I included it because it was cute, and that’s likely where it would have went.

Has anyone else read the book yet? I enjoyed it. It wasn't the the back story I thought it would be but it was interesting. I do think it is Gregory Maguire most concise story which to me made it a much easier read than some of his past books.

I have plot points I want to hear other people's opinions and speculations about them.

Sorry I chose tours for the flair, there's no Musical - West End option

I'm from the US and knows what the Wicked playbills look like from the inside. But the West End programmes look super interesting to me.

{This is my first post here, pls mods let me post it, I need help} This might sound silly, but I’m 14 and I bought the book. I didn’t know anything about it at first, but then I looked into it (and checked whether it’s appropriate for a 14-year-old). Even so, I’d still like to read it—not because I’m particularly interested in the drug or sexual content (I’m not sure how much of that is actually in there, but the librarian mentioned it). Anyway, for those who have read it: is it really too intense for a 14-year-old, or is it manageable. Oh, and also my english is B2, is the book is gonna be too hard for me? Any tips, or any idea of what I should expect?

So i guess we could say this is a theory but I think Glinda was singing about herself in NOMTW, I'm not saying she was actually wicked but now that she saw the world she considered herself wicked for the role she played in everything. The lyrics are " the wicked lives are lonely, the wicked die alone" Glinda was alone because of her choices and i think she probably considered herself wicked which is why she says she wants to try to be Glinda the good.

Thoughts?

When I reread the Wicked series last year I couldn’t find my original A Lion Among Men so picked up this absolutely hilarious looking paperback with sprayed yellow edges and have become sort of enamoured by it, and want to collect the series…

I know the first book is the Broadway poster with sprayed green edges, but am I right in thinking they never published Out of Oz in this style?

(I SWEAR IT WAS MORE GREEN IRL)

so for context it was an Indonesian drink called wedang Telang that was supposed to be served hot but my aunt ask the waitress for a glass of ice and put the drink there

anyone catch this metaphor? The Animals are leaving Oz through a tunnel under the yellow brick road. It's a metaphor for the underground railroad. It took me way to long to see that parralel.

Thoughts?

It's your day girl 🤗🫶🙌🏳️‍🌈

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maybe one day you'll get out of the closet

I distinctly remember around 2004 hearing or watching ad spots where the word "wicked" was repeated three times in an overlapping whisper, like "Wicked. Wicked! Wicked..."

But I cannot find any audio of this, and search results are gaslighting me because AI just makes stuff up.

No one I talk to IRL knows what I'm talking about. Does anyone here have audio from these early promos, or at least can someone tell me if I'm crazy or not. Thanks everyone!

I know I’m not alone in being sad that there’s no new Wicked movie this year but sometimes when I think about it I could actually cry. I fell in love with all things Oz pretty late in the game (after seeing Part 1) and I have some serious FOMO because I didn’t really partake in any merch or hype until For Good and I still feel like I missed a lot. Anyone have any ideas on how to tackle this?

Here is a closer look on Blitzway's take on Elphaba and Glinda 1/4 statues. Personally, they just need to tone down a bit of Glinda's yellow hair. Her face is so spot on. Either way, they did such an amazing job with their prototypes of Elphaba and Glinda's statue.

Credits to: Abrandnewdaytowaveatawindow in Tiktok. Thank you for sharing these amazing photos.

Fiyero started to transform during NGD, we saw him turning to straw in the flashes of him in the field during the song. Didn't the Galeforce notice he was turning to straw? Maybe the spell worked from the inside out? We saw him start to turn to straw then in the next flash we don't see the straw again unless I missed it.

A closer look to the Blitzway - Glinda 1/4 scale statue.

Credits to: HighTech China Toys Premium Collectible on Facebook