Madison Malone Kircher

A lot of people experience Broadway online through, and I'm not suggesting anyone film a Broadway show while they're sitting in it.

Do not do that.

It's rude.

But people have and people do.

And so for many fans of the show, getting to see it only happens through a camera that was snuck into a theater and then uploaded to YouTube.

I mean, some of my favorite Wicked rabbit holes are their entire compilations online.

nights where the flying mechanism didn't work.

No fly nights where Elphaba doesn't get off the ground.

And so you've just kind of got, you know, Idina Menzel or whoever standing in the middle of the stage at the Gershwin holding a broom on the ground, getting louder and louder, but not going up.

Oh, no.

And then there's also my favorite compilations are people who are hyper-analytical about the riffs in the show.

So, like, the...

incredibly small differences between how actresses who have played these roles sing them.

People get very obsessive about who their favorites are, being able to identify them within OneNote.

It's an incredibly fun game online.

I highly recommend if you haven't spent some time on this corner of the internet.

I mean, it makes it, frankly, easier to tune out, right?

The same marketers who are in that room trying to figure out how to have their holding space moment should probably know that I think at this point, wicked fans who are going to go see this movie a couple of times or feel very strongly about the musical, I'm not going to buy the pink ketchup.

Like, I don't need the eyeshadow palette.

I'm not going to get the Crocs.