movie review

WICKED: FOR GOOD

Running time: 137 minutes. Rated PG (some suggestive material, action and violence). In theaters Nov. 21.

Thus ends the longest intermission ever.

A whole year after Elphaba belted “Defying Gravity” midair and the credits of “ Wicked ” rolled, the witch is back in “Wicked: For Good,” an emotional and elongated version of the Broadway musical’s second act.

Theater-lover common wisdom has it that the first half of composer Stephen Schwartz’s “Wizard of Oz” riff based on Gregory Maguire’s novel is infinitely better than what comes after the bathroom break.

Onstage that’s true. All its best ballads (“The Wizard and I”) and company numbers (“Dancing Through Life”) are front-loaded. It’s a bright and poppy YA boarding-school story about a misunderstood cul

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