19 Subtle Differences Between The "Wicked" Movie Vs. The Broadway Stage Production

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It's nary concealed that Wicked is the biggest and most talked about movie successful theaters close now. Adapted from the beloved Broadway musical, Wicked famously tells the communicative of witches Elphaba and Glinda and what precisely happened earlier the events of The Wizard of Oz.

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Starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande arsenic Elphaba and Glinda, respectively, the movie adaptation has been successful the works for years, and present it's yet a reality. Directed by Jon M. Chu, the movie adaptation has received captious acclaim arsenic helium and the squad person captured the magic of the signifier accumulation connected screen.

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And portion it's a beauteous faithful adaptation, immoderate things person been added for the movie mentation that don't hap successful the signifier production. So, present are 17 differences betwixt the Wicked: Part 1 movie vs. the signifier musical:

It's important to enactment that Part 1 has astir the aforesaid runtime arsenic the Broadway accumulation but lone covers up until the intermission of the signifier show. 

1. First, dissimilar successful the signifier musical, the movie features a little glimpse astatine Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion walking down the yellowish ceramic roadworthy during "No One Mourns the Wicked."

2. In the movie, Keala Settle portrays Miss Coddle, a headmaster astatine Shiz University. The quality does not look successful the signifier accumulation connected Broadway.

3. Another caller quality who is added to the movie and is not successful the signifier accumulation is Dulcibear, Elphaba's nanny who takes attraction of her aft her begetter is horrified that she's calved green. She's voiced by signifier histrion Sharon D. Clarke.

4. Also, portion Pfannee, 1 of Glinda's friends astatine Shiz, is featured successful the signifier production, the relation is gender-swapped for the movie and is played by Bowen Yang.

5. The signifier philharmonic doesn't diagnostic Elphaba's childhood; however, successful the movie, we get flashbacks to it. In the signifier version, we spot her being born, and she discusses however her parent died erstwhile she was young portion talking to Glinda astatine Shiz University.

6. In the signifier production, Elphaba is enrolled astatine Shiz University and arrives for her archetypal time alongside her sister, Nessarose. However, the movie has it truthful Elphaba is lone dropping Nessa disconnected astatine schoolhouse but past gains Madame Morrible's attraction and she's asked to stay.

7. Elphaba and Glinda conscionable Fiyero for the archetypal clip unneurotic successful the Broadway signifier production. However, successful the movie, Elphaba meets Fiyero successful the woods wherever Fiyero's equine runs into her.

8. In the movie, Glinda's parents are shown dropping her disconnected astatine Shiz University. In the signifier production, the duo are ne'er seen connected signifier and are lone referenced astatine the opening of "What Is This Feeling?"

9. Elphaba and Nessa's begetter is lone seen astatine the opening of the signifier accumulation and doesn't look connected signifier again. However, the movie has him travel to Shiz to accidental goodbye to Elphaba alongside everyone other erstwhile she heads disconnected to the Emerald City.

10. In the movie, Dr. Dillamond, who is 1 of the past remaining speaking animals successful Oz, meets up with a radical of different animals, and this is wherever "Something Bad" is performed. On stage, the opus is performed successful his classroom, and he's notably the lone carnal module member.

11. In the movie, a caller conception of "One Short Day" featuring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, aka the archetypal Elphaba and Glinda, arsenic citizens of Oz, arsenic they explicate however The Wizard roseate to powerfulness successful Oz due to the fact that helium could work the Grimmerie. This isn't featured successful the signifier musical.

12. The Wicked movie includes a country wherever The Wizard shows Elphaba and Glinda his imaginativeness for the "Oz of Tomorrow," including his thought to physique a roadworthy that everyone tin follow. Elphaba and Glinda propulsion buttons and determine that the roadworthy should beryllium yellow. This country doesn't hap successful the signifier musical.

13. In the signifier production, erstwhile a caller prof shows disconnected the caged lion cub aft taking implicit Dr. Dillamond's class, Elphaba causes the students to determination uncontrollably truthful she and Fiyero tin instrumentality the lion cub. However, successful the movie, Elphaba uses poppies to enactment everyone to sleep.

14. The Wicked movie has a fewer much subtle nods to The Wizard of Oz sprinkled passim the movie. For starters, astatine the precise opening of the movie, arsenic children tally done the tract rejoining that the Wicked Witch of the West is dead, they are playing the classical "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead."

15. "Dancing Through Life," "One Short Day," and "Defying Gravity" are breached up much successful the movie than they are successful the signifier production. Namely, "Defying Gravity" becomes a astir 14-minute country with the opus stopping and starting arsenic Elphaba and Glinda chat and measurement their options to escape.

16. In the movie, during "Defying Gravity," The Wizard's guards who are pursuing Elphaba shout, "Kill her." However, successful the signifier production, the lyrics see "Get her."

17. The movie includes a fewer lyric changes during "Dancing Through Life." Also, the Ozdust Ballroom is simply a hidden nightclub alternatively of a pupil hangout spot, which differs from the signifier production.

18. After Elphaba takes disconnected into the entity during "Defying Gravity," determination is simply a infinitesimal wherever Madame Morrible and Glinda hug, with Glinda intelligibly accepting the hug. This doesn't hap successful the signifier philharmonic but foreshadows Act Two.

19. And finally, astatine the precise extremity of the movie, portion Nessa is listening to the announcement astir uncovering and capturing Elphaba, their begetter collapses successful the background. In the signifier production, it's mentioned that helium "dies of a breached heart," but it's ne'er shown connected stage.

What did you deliberation of the Wicked movie adaptation? Were determination immoderate different differences betwixt the Broadway philharmonic and the movie that you spotted? Tell america everything successful the comments below!