My exact question!

Her sister is in the musical, her name is Nessarose. Elphaba only goes to school initially as her companion

What? The Wicked Witch of the East was the witch who was killed by the house at the beginning. The one who was wearing the ruby slippers before Dorothy takes them. In Wicked she's Elphaba's sister Nessa, in the wheelchair.

... and the reason why Glinda IN the 1939 film DOES NOT give that vibe, is ALSO explained in the Wicked story. She is not supposed to tell. Obviously you are not familiar with the musical. I LOVE it. Have seen it twice on Broadway. Ready for more.

Also, The Wizard of Oz and Wicked were written by 2 different men. L. Frank Baum wrote the Wizard of Oz decades before Wicked was written by Gregory Maguire. Wicked is Maguire's ideas of how everything in the Wizard of Oz came to pass. Wicked tells where the Scarecrow, Tinman, and Lion come from, who the Wicked Witch of the East is and how she came to power, why Elphaba wants the slippers so much, how the monkeys came to fly, even how Elphaba's flying broom came to be, and SO much more! SEE the live musical!!!! You will be SO glad that you did! Also, Glinda's name originally was Galinda. She shortened it, I won't give it away as to why. Wicked also explains why the house, containing Dorothy, came to Oz. SEE THE MUSICAL!! I read the book Wicked, but there is a lot of violence in it, so I didn't care for it. They didn't put it in the musical, thank goodness! A little bit of trivia, the name Elphaba came from the writer of The Wizard of Oz's name. L. Frank Baum = Elphaba, get it? And the coat worn by the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz was originally found at a used clothing store. When Oz's costume department really looked at it, they found the name L. Frank Baum on a tag inside it! WOW!!!

Actually, even better, I highly recommend reading the book. Or books, in the Wicked series by Gregory Maguire, if you truly want to understand the full scope of how the story of Wicked came to be and to see how it flourished. The musical is incredible as ​​⁠@patclinker6587 stated, but there truly is SO much wonderfulness that is hard to encapsulate into a musical or movie/movie series, from a book.

Right? They should sing "Bosom Buddies" together! 😉

also people forget it was a novel first. and i'm hoping it at least uses it's big budget to show some of the stuff glossed over in the play

Also, Avaric and Fiyero from the novel are combined into one character in the musical to form a love triangle, which wasn’t an element of the book.

I think most people (who are Wicked fans) know that it’s based on a book.

"It's based on a novel . . . not a musical." Or the 2024 movie "Wicked" is a prequel to the 1939 musical movie "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", (and perhaps a less remembered 1902 stage musical) which was itself based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" which inspired Gregory McGuire's 1995 precursor novel "Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" which in turn was the basis for the Schwartz/Holman 2003 musical "Wicked". I just hope no one will be inspired to make movies based on Baum's 12 sequels to his first Oz book other than the 1985 "Return to Oz" animated movie. In short, all the Oz books/movies/musicals/etc of the past 125+ years have been based on/inspired by/or influenced the many Oz works that came after. 🙂

@ I know. I read the book.

@@ralphreinert Return to Oz was not an animated movie.

I hope you’re right. Sometimes when there’s so much hype for a movie, it bombs. I really hope this is as good as The Musical! I would by my tickets now but I think it’s too early. 💚 💚 💚 💚 💚 !

Nothing you said, has anything to do with her performance in the movie. Get over something that happened weeks ago.

Sounds like r a c i s m to me!

How can u dislike the movie if it’s not out yet?

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣​@@XavierLey-rq8lr

I had a feeling this would be the perspective. But I do plan to support it anyway simply because I love the story.

I love the song “For Good”, it makes me cry every time I hear it. I’ve seen the musical 5 or 6 times in Los Angeles and I can’t wait for the movie. I hope it’s good 😊!

'for good' is in act 2 of the musical. it shouldn't even be part of the trailer. you won't be seeing it in the movie

oops.. not sure if it's in the trailer or not.. but it is from the musical. act 2.. unless they change the order of stuff, you should not see that song in this movie.

@@kevintweedie How do you know?

Hopefully you’ve heard that the musical is quite different than the book! The musical doesn’t contain any of the darkness or sexual themes that exist in the book.

I'm sure it'll be better

the changes they made from the book to the broadway play were absolutely brilliant. you can't say that about every adaptation. it will be interesting to see what they did in the movie, but i am already sort of disappointed that they have made 2 parts. seems like a money grab to me. if broadway can do it in one go, hollywood should be able to do it in a few hours also.

@@lauramoonwoman they did it to really expand the story. I don't think it's a money grab.

I don’t think the expansion of the film will make it better. The writers out there right now put out garbage so once again they will probably take something good and overstate it to destroy it

@notmyselfusee critics who saw say it was necessary. You need to watch it before making judgement.

Or the actual differences