This includeseveryWickedsongfrom the first act of the musical being featured in the movie.
She holds the newborn Elphaba while she is crying, soothing the child and promising to look after her.
This added section features the original Broadway actors who played Elphaba and Glinda, Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth.
The Wizard allegedly is able to read it, except this is later revealed to be a lie.
This lore helps better establish what the Grimmerie is and why it is significant that Elphaba can read it.
Her relationships with Elphaba and Boq also take deeply tragic turns.
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The movie does a better job of setting up these storylines in several ways.
This helps set the stage for the fallout that will occur between Nessarose and Boq inWicked: For Good.
“Elphaba and Fiyero meet in the presence of Glinda and other Shiz students.
Wicked adapts the Broadway musical into a two-part film, following the unlikely friendship between Elphaba, born with green skin, and Glinda, a popular aristocrat, in the Land of Oz. As they navigate their contrasting paths, they evolve into Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
This version of their meeting presents Fiyero as more charming and princely than entitled.
This makes the development of their romantic feelings seem more believable later on.
