With the stunning box office success of the first Wicked movie, it seems that there are now more fans of this Wizard of Oz story. The movie, as many people likely know at this point, is based on a Broadway musical, which itself was based on a novel by author Gregory Maguire. As is the case with any adaptation, the screen version had to cut a fair amount of content. For anybody who doesn’t want to read the whole book, social media has come to the rescue.
An extensive thread has gone viral on the site formerly known as Twitter, which delves deep into the parts of Wicked that you won’t know if you’ve only seen the stage musical or the movie. It adds a great deal of context to the story, regarding both what the musical’s versions leave out and what they outright change.
Wicked The Play Changes A Lot From The Book
handled better in the movie than in the play.) It might be interesting to some, then, that the relationship has fairly significant differences in the book compared to the play and the film.
Specifically, Glinda’s character arc is quite different in the book. The play, and so far, the film, have shown Glinda maturing and changing, starting out as a fairly shallow person, but eventually maturing into a person with a good heart. However, that’s never really the case in the book. Glinda and Elphaba do have a connection in the text, but it never really becomes the friendship we see in the movie.
Considering that Wicked: Part One had a runtime on par with the entire stage musical, the movie will be in the unique position of actually having more time to tell its story than the work it is adapting. It’ll be intriguing to find out if fans end up seeing more elements from the book make it into Wicked: For Good when it hits theaters on November 21 as part of the 2025 movie schedule.