Wicked (movies)

[KathyB]

I saw it today and enjoyed it quite a bit, except for having the same problem with a large drink (I was trying to pace myself, but my bladder outpaced my consumption), but I was able to hold it until the end. There were maybe ten people in the theatre.

It is "a lot." It made me really want to reread the book, or the first half of the book. I was pretty much "meh" about the book when I read it, but I now feel re-inspired.

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That was Kristin and Idina during the "Wiz-o-mania" segment, wasn't it? I couldn't stick around through the end credits. Were there any Easter eggs after the credits?

[scenicdesign71]

I'm glad you liked it, Kathy!  I ended up seeing it again a week or two after my first viewing, this time in IMAX but in with a similarly thinnish morning crowd, with a couple of friends who also enjoyed it.  And yes, those people you mentioned did appear in that scene you mentioned, one with a signature vocal styling that Mr. Schwartz wrote in especially for this movie cameo.  (Both cameo roles — and much of the music in that particular sequence — was new for the movie, expanding on a much shorter passage in the show).

I read the novel sometime in the late 90s and liked it, though not quite as much as I wanted to.  It's decidedly darker, weirder and less family-friendly than the musical — all of which I'd count as points in the book's favor, but it was still slow going at times.  Among the few of Maguire's other fairytale-revisions I subsequently read (Lost; Mirror, Mirror; the first half, maybe, of Son of a Witch), my favorite by far was Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, which I'd love to see adapted for stage or screen.  Just a few years after its publication, the 2003 film Girl with a Pearl Earring came out — itself based on another 1999 novel about a young woman's fictional(ized) role in a Western-cultural touchstone — and seemed to me, at the time, to scupper any likelihood of another Miramax-ish 17th-century Flemish costume drama with similar themes and story elements getting greenlit.  (Turns out, a year earlier Confessions had already been adapted into what looks like a pretty wretched Disney TV movie).

[Bobster]

I LOVED it (no surprise) and have to go again soon!!!!