I just finished watching the final hour of Wicked. I want to make time in the next couple of days to watch the entire movie in one sitting. I really loved the scattered references to the 1939 film and the increased references to fascism in the novel. I found much of it very moving. By the end of the movie, I decided I liked Ariana Grande more thjan I thought I did, but I loved Cynthia Erivo's performance. She's so much prettier with that stupid ring out of her nose.
I was really impressed by Paul Tazewell's costumes, which seemed a mix of Victorian/Edwardian (time of the novel's publication in 1900) and contemporary while seeming other-worldly as well as real clothing the citizens of Oz would wear.
