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Some are holding abstraction for the lyrics of "Defying Gravity". Some emotion the film’s beauteous costumes.
But fans of the Broadway amusement and its 1939 Wizard of Oz origins person besides been enjoying the movie’s Taylor Swift-level Easter eggs and references.
The movie’s manager Jon M Chu told Radio Times: “We person a lot, a batch of breadcrumbs successful the contented of Wicked the show.”
“Of course, Wizard of Oz has specified a spot successful our hearts of however we spot story, however we spot the world,” helium added.
You’ll besides (obviously) spot tons of parallels to the Wicked musical, which was itself inspired by a publication that drew connected The Wizard Of Oz.
So, we thought we’d find arsenic galore Easter eggs and references arsenic we could (oh, and obviously, huge spoiler alert for the movie).
1) Chickens playing the piano
“Before [L Frank Baum] wrote Wizard of Oz, helium bred amusement chickens, these benignant of fancy chickens. So we utilized fancy chickens playing the piano, this benignant of weird Ozian soft successful the Ozdesk Ballroom,” Chu said.
“So we wanted to notation arsenic overmuch arsenic that, and adjacent the [WW] Denslow drawings successful the archetypal book. We wanted to usage animals from those books, and the plan benignant of look from those drawings. And truthful we infuse immoderate of that throughout.”
2) The Universal logo throwback
The movie’s Universal logo has been replaced by an older mentation successful the film. This echoes what The Wizard Of Oz’s Universal credits would person looked like.
2) The tulips are planted successful a rainbow
A country showing Munchkinland from supra reveals multicoloured tulips planted successful a rainbow pattern; a notation to The Wizard Of Oz’s "Somewhere Over The Rainbow".
3) Elphaba’s name
The writer of the The Wizard Of Oz publication is called L. Frank Baum, oregon L. F. Baum, which sounds similar “Elphaba” erstwhile said retired loud.
4) The film’s rubric paper font is simply a throwback
At the extremity of the film, a rubric paper appeared which uses the aforesaid curly font arsenic The Wizard Of Oz’s archetypal movie.
5) Children ringing retired “ding, dong, the witch is dead”
The iconic Wizard Of Oz tune reappears successful this adaptation erstwhile children tally done Munchkinland ringing bells and clanging pans implicit the Wicked Witch’s death.
6) Hot aerial balloons
The Wizard escaped from a blistery aerial balloon successful The Wicked musical, and Dorothy tried to usage 1 to get location successful the 1939 movie too. Apt, then, that Glinda and Elphaba effort to flight utilizing one.
7) The tornado shoes
“I emotion the benignant of reddish slippers that [Glinda] clicks 3 times successful Popular. I emotion the crystal slippers that we person successful the movie. The plan of it is similar a tornado, as, if you cognize the story, that comes into play later,” director Chu says. It refers to the tornado that The Wizard Of Oz begins with.
8) More rainbows
During "The Wizard And I", some rainbows and bluebirds appear, referencing the iconic "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" (again).
9) No item sparred
Both Elphaba and Glinda spar with sticks successful the movie, a imaginable notation to The Wizard Of Oz’s broom and wand battle.
10) Cameo...
Michael Rose, who played Fiyero successful the Broadway show, is the pb antheral vocals connected "One Short Day".
11) After cameo...
Idina Menzel, who starred successful the archetypal Broadway mentation of the Wicked musical, makes an appearance.
12) After cameo...
So does Kristen Chenoweth, besides from the archetypal Broadway mentation of Wicked.
13) After very-on-the-nose cameo.
Before "No One Mourns the Wicked", the assemblage sees the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and Toto connected The Yellow Brick Road.
14) Nessarose’s stripy socks
Elphaba’s sister wears striped socks, reminiscent of the well-known Wizard of Oz inactive showing The Wicked Witch Of The East’s stripy sock-wearing legs peeking retired from nether the location that crushed her.
15) Madam Morrible’s hairsbreadth and costume
Her hairsbreadth is shaped similar tempest cloud, a notation to her quality to power the weather.
16) We spot a babe Cowardly Lion
The amusement includes a lion cub trembling successful a cage ― reminiscent of the Cowardly Lion.
17) What the gulch?
Miss Cottle calls retired “Not to worry, conscionable a flimsy gulch” successful the movie. The Wizard Of Oz’s archetypal Wicked Witch was played by Almira Gulch.
18) You’ve got to manus it to them
Fans of The Wizard Of Oz volition apt person noticed however the shadiness of Elphaba’s manus mirrors that of The Wicked Witch Of The West’s successful The Wizard Of Oz.
19) Did we notation determination were cameos?
Stephen Schwartz, the idiosyncratic who wrote the lyrics to the Wicked musical, is concisely disposable arsenic a defender done a peephole.
20) There’s a Bridgerton crossover
Jonathan Bailey, who plays Fiyero successful the film, rides connected a horse that’s the aforesaid arsenic the 1 helium utilized successful Bridgerton.
21) Do you privation them to spell it retired for you?
The library’s spinning circular shelves and ladders some spell retired the letters “O” and “Z” (OZ) astatine antithetic points successful the movie.
22) There’s (sort of) a flying house
The Wizard picks up a woody location and throws it successful the aerial successful the movie, reminiscent of Dorothy’s home’s formation successful the 1939 film.
23) There are literal ruby slippers
If you wanted a clear-cut notation to The Wizard Of Oz, these Dorothy-worthy shoes should bash it. And if they didn’t, possibly the information that they’re clicked 3 times volition fulfill you.
24) Everything’s re-cycled
There’s a cycling country successful Wicked with the lion cub successful tow. It’s hard not to deliberation of the infinitesimal successful The Wizard Of Oz, wherever we spot Toto successful Dorothy’s bike’s basket.
25) “We mustn’t fto you get wet”
Madam Morrible advises Elphaba “we musn’t fto you get wet.” This is however The Wicked Witch Of The West dies successful the 1939 film.
26) The subtlest Wizard doxxing
The Wizard successful The Wizard Of Oz’s existent sanction is Oscar Diggs. We spot this sanction plastered connected surfaces passim the film.
27) Oma-ha!
Oscar Diggs is from Omaha originally, which is referenced aggregate times successful the film. The wizard’s invitation is from Omaha: an “O-ma-ha” chant rises successful the movie.
28) Wouldn’t it beryllium chaotic if determination was different cameo?
Well, determination is. Winnie Holzman, who wrote the publication of the Wicked musical, besides appears successful the film.
29) Elphaba’s Defying Gravity airs doesn’t defy tradition
This mimics an iconic infinitesimal successful Wicked’s musical.
30) There was a not-quite Jeff Goldblum Easter egg
The actor, who played The Wizard successful the film, shared connected The Kelly Clarkson Show that he’d wanted to sneak a portion of drawstring that helium uses for magic tricks. It mostly got chopped out, but helium claims Elphaba holds it astatine immoderate constituent successful the movie.
31) Pay attraction to the antheral down the curtain
The enactment “don’t wage attraction to the antheral down the curtain,” from the 1939 movie, is cleverly referenced erstwhile the Wizard hides down a hanging sheet.
32) There’s a ceramic road, and... conjecture what colour they take to marque it
The Wizard has to prime what colour to marque his caller ceramic roadworthy successful the film, and well... determination was nary existent enactment speech from yellow.
33) To beryllium continued...
The 1939 Wizard Of Oz bursts into Technicolour successful the 2nd act, a immense technological feat the time.
The philharmonic besides breaks aft "Defying Gravity", which is erstwhile the 2024 movie ends.
At that point, a “to beryllium continued...” rubric comes up successful the aforesaid font arsenic the 1939 movie and successful agleam colours.
34) Oh, did idiosyncratic accidental cameos?
Actor Alice Fearn, who played Elphaba successful the Broadway Wicked philharmonic passim the 2010s, plays Glinda’s mother.
35) Poppies
The flowers which featured heavy successful the 1939 Wizard Of Oz movie besides look successful the Wicked movie.
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