So, you’ve got been holding a variety of area for Depraved currently. In any case, who hasn’t?
Another telling of the occasions of The Wizard of Oz, the musical follows Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), a mysterious, magical inexperienced woman and her standard, pink-obsessed, barely cooky bestie, Galinda-turned-Glinda (Ariana Grande). In fact, these two ladies are destined to turn out to be the Depraved Witch of the West and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North by the point Dorothy’s home lands unceremoniously in Munchkinland.
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The brand new movie is tailored from Act 1 of the stage musical by Stephen Schwartz — which signifies that sure, there may be a whole second movie coming our means subsequent 12 months. Half one’s ending sees Elphaba belting out the earth-shattering “Defying Gravity” as she refuses the Wizard’s supply to workforce up and, as a substitute, lets out a bellowing battlecry and flies off into an unsure future. In the meantime, Glinda opts to stay with the corrupt system and stays behind with the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) and Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh). Within the last moments, Elphaba is labelled as a “Depraved witch” for the primary time. Gasps! Chills! Tears!
This epic cliffhanger has left us all with loads of questions. How does Glinda turn out to be Oz’s good witch? Who’s the Depraved Witch of the East? How do the Scarecrow and Tinman come to be? Will we be blessed with one other track from Jonathan Bailey’s swoon-worthy Fiyero? Oh yeah, and who was that mysterious stranger who seduced Elphaba’s mum with that suspicious inexperienced elixir all of these years in the past?
That is proper — we nonetheless do not know the identification of Elphaba’s father. (In case you do not wish to be spoiled for half two, please go maintain area some other place!)
Elphaba’s father first seems partially one
In case you missed it, this is somewhat recap. Within the very starting of Depraved Half One, Glinda tells the munchkins about Elphaba’s childhood. “She had a father. She had a mom. As so many do,” she says because the movie cuts to a flashback of Governor Thropp and Elphaba’s mom. “Like each household, that they had their secrets and techniques,” says Glinda in her sing-song voice. As Governor Thropp leaves for a enterprise journey, in waltzes a mysterious travelling salesman, a jaunty hat oh so conveniently overlaying his face.