Madison Malone Kircher

This week, people are taking the lyrics of Defying Gravity and really holding space with that.

An interviewer named Tracy Gokrest asked arguably just an insane question about people online holding space for the lyrics of Defying Gravity.

Ariana and Cynthia are incredibly consummate, professional, polite.

But you can tell behind their eyes, they're going, what is this person asking us about?

I can't remember which one of them says it, but they're like, oh, I didn't know that was happening.

And it goes on to become this moment.

Brands co-opted.

It becomes a meme.

This phrase transcends the film in the way that marketers sit in a room and go, OK, how can we figure out how to have a holding space moment?

Like, it was one of those, the sort of thing you cannot fake.

Notably, Act 1 ends on the highest note in the show, right?

It ends on that riff in Defying Gravity.

There's quite literal height to it.

And so there's an immediate crash that follows.

And the second act of the show is fairly thin, both in terms of content.

There's not a ton of plot left to happen.

The big twists don't come until the last, you know, 10 minutes or so.

There aren't that many songs.

Quite literally, there just aren't that many numbers.

And frankly, I'm so sorry to anyone out here who's in this for The Wizard, but like...