Wicked
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Wicked 2024

★★★★½

Watched 29 Nov 2024

OH SHIT! HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS! I'm so sorry, i'm elated, my heart is soaringgggg, I'm tele-fucking-ported!!! what a big and beautiful movie!! also kinda no better way to celebrate finally getting diagnosed with autism this morning than watching one of my favourite musicals of all time that I'm totally normal about.

Ariana Grande blew me away, her Galinda is perfect, any worries I may have had are all dead on arrival. She has all my respect, and honestly it's a shame if anything that she hasn't been acting for so long. She should be on stage! She should be in movies, loads of movies! Her little details that she adds are genius and her face is telling everything all the time, she's never off and I actually love her!

I have no credentials to tell Cynthia Erivo what to do because she's incredible and i am forever in awe of her, I listen to the 2015 Broadway revival of the colour purple with her as Celie religiously, her voice is actually a religion of it's own and I'm head priest <3 and her interpretation of Elphaba is totally valid, it's just not my favourite. So what I'm gonna say is not a complaint. Just kinda like a comment. Because I have no credentials (except well over a decade of loving wicked, and I still have the Gelphie fanart drawn in drama classes blutacked to my wardrobe to prove it). My favourite Elphaba interpretations have always been less clean, especially at the beginning. I would have loved to see her be more emotional and explosive with it, and she did actually get some moments that felt more raw and spontaneous in some scenes which I really liked but I think it could have been pushed more and in the vocal performance as well. That's just me. I get what she was doing and I like it too, Elphaba as a character that represses so much of her emotions to appease her dad and Nessarose and to avoid her power makes total sense. But when she's alone, when she's monologuing, when she's not performing and controlling herself for anyone (like the wizard and I, or parts of I'm not that girl) or later when she's close with galinda so isn't monitoring herself so much (one short day, parts of defying gravity) (and also just general non-singing parts), I would have really liked to see a clearer change in her. Because I really love seeing that in the show. I think it allows you to see more how much she actually has in common with galinda personality-wise, that really let's you see why they are both so much happier and accepted together than they ever were or can be apart. I believe that she might be more emotional and raw in part two because that might make quite a bit of sense with the way she's playing it so I'm very excited for that because omg I can't wait to see her and Jonathan Bailey do As Long As You're Mine. I'll die. I'll die right there. That is one of my all time favourites. I will die.

Which brings me briefly to Jonathan Bailey and Dancing Through Life (which is probably my favourite song from act 1). The euphoria is unmatched. The choreographer, who I need to learn the name of (because they also did Teen Beach whatttt????), is a god. It was just incredible. And it was one of the coolest scenes for the use of the set, I am obsessed with that library (and also the Ozdust Ballroom holy shit???)

I could actually probably make this review hours long because I really have that much to say but I'll probably stop now so I have more left to say when I see it again. And also probably again after that for the SINGALONG BAYBEEEE

I will also be revising the gelphie fanart era, you're welcome.

also he was nawt holding that lion cub


ALSO CANT BE EXPECTED TO WAIT A YEAR FOR NO GOOD DEED 😭😭😭😭

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