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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-23 (Saturday)
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On Nov 24, 2024 at 10:04:54 AM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> Wicked (theatrical) New musical based on the hit Broadway show.  Cynthia 
> Eribo stars as Elphaba and Ariana Grande stars as Galinda, with a "Ga." 
> Elphaba is unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite 
> impossible to describe.  While Galinda is blonde.  The two of them meet 
> at Shiz University and at first hate each other, experiencing the 
> feeling of unadulterated loathing.  But eventually Galinda decides to 
> help Elphaba become popular.  Unfortunately, something sinister starts 
> to take shape in Oz as the animals have their rights and even voices 
> striped from them.  Elphaba and Galinda make their way to the Wizard of 
> Oz (Jeff Goldblum) for help.  But once they arrive Elphaba realizes 
> something has changed within her.  Something is not the same.  She is 
> through with playing by the rules of someone else's game.  She decides 
> it's time to try defying gravity.
> 
> This was a lot better than the stage version.  It's the same songs, and 
> although the movie 160 minutes long, and only tells the first act of the 
> stage musical, I didn't detect much new that wasn't in the stage 
> version.  But what the theatrical version does is the movie really opens 
> up the scenery to expand the world in a way that can't be done on a 
> stage.  Also I saw this in 3D, and the staging of the musical numbers 
> definitely had 3D in mind.  Fans of the stage version should be very 
> happy with this movie version.

Our local theaters have to resort to posting threats to kick out any die hard
fans of the musical who insist on singing along with the actors on screen.
Apparently these obsessed fans were ruining the movie for everyone else. In
exchange, AMC is scheduling special sing-along screenings just for fans who
can't contain themselves.