It’s not all that long now before we return to Oz for one final round with Elphaba, Glinda, Fiyero, and more when Wicked: For Good prepares for its curtain call this November. But while we wait, today we got our last big tease for what to expect… including some very interesting tweaks from the beloved musical.
This morning Universal dropped the final trailer for For Good, giving us snippets from a few of the standout songs from the musical’s second act—namely “Thank Goodness”, “No Good Deed”, and, of course, “For Good”.
For those who’ve seen the musical, there’s some very intriguing teases and reveals here (including the identity of a few members of the “Fab Four,” Dorothy’s party of travelers as they journey down the yellow brick road in The Wizard of Oz). We get a brief glimpse of how the film is going to be handling a certain pivotal scene with Nessa Rose, which actress Marissa Bode already teased as a big change from how the musical portrays the character’s disability. We also get a big preview of the catfight between Elphaba and Glinda.
Musical fans know that this little scrap between the two friends comes as a brief, lighthearted moment after another pretty dark pivotal scene (if you know, you know). But in For Good, even though we keep some of the gags as the duo snap back and forth at each other before the fight, it looks like we’re going to have that fight itself played a little more seriously, with Glinda practically charging in at Elphaba, swinging her wand around like it’s a mace. Duel of the Fates, but with magic items!
We won’t have much longer to see just what other tweaks will have been made to pad Wicked‘s pretty brisk second act into a full-blown movie, however: For Good, which stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande alongside Michelle Yeoh, Ethan Slater, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Jeff Goldblum, and more, hits theaters November 21.
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