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Unequivocally, the best part of Wicked is the friendship between Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande-Butera ’s Glinda. It is unfortunate, then, that so much of Wicked: For Good is not about their friendship (or even its fallout), but about the string of events that must take place to set Dorothy Gale upon the yellow brick road—and end with the vanquishing of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Wicked: For Good is not entirely to blame for this zany not-quite retelling of The Wizard of Oz , as the story is adapted from the stage musical, itself adapted from Gregory Maguire’s very weird, very R-rated 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West . The plot is intended to be political—a rallying cry against fascism, radic

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