One of the Best Hollywood Adaptations of a Broadway Show, ‘Wicked: Part One’ Adds to the Oz Legacy
Like ‘The Sound of Music’ (1965), ‘Wicked’ is a case where the movie builds upon the original, and in its own way even improves upon the stage version.
The most bandied-about term in contemporary film reviews is “spoiler alert.” One wonders what kind of spoilers we should be on the alert for when it comes to Jon M. Chu’s long-awaited “Wicked: Part One,” considering that more than 65 million people have seen the stage musical and another five million have read the original novel, “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.”
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