Madison Malone Kircher

Wonderful, sentimental man reprise.

These are the songs that we, the musical theater girlies, skip.

Yeah, obviously.

I'm not... No one is watching Wicked for the men.

Okay.

Well, apologies to People Magazine, I suppose.

But it's very thin.

There's not a ton of plot.

A lot of it exists simply to tie in the world that Gregor Maguire, the author of the book, has built around the existing Wizard of Oz IP.

So, you know, the Yellow Brick Road...

Dorothy Gale, the entire story you know and love, so much happened before the house dropped in.

Like, mostly the second act exists to tie all those things together and make you go, oh.

And then you get For Good and we all cry.

Hideous.

I'm running out of Aussie and slang from my memory.

I didn't love it.

It just felt thin.

And I agree to your point about the first film feeling just beautifully composed.

I went into that movie with very high expectations and I left having them met, if not exceeded.

I was deeply impressed with Ariana Grande, who was giving...