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‘Wicked’: Read The Screenplay For The Highest-Grossing Broadway Musical Movie In U.S. History
Wicked, the blockbuster musical movie from director Jon M. Chu, stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
The film, which opened November 22 to a slew of records after its own long journey to the screen, already has set the mark for the highest-grossing movie based on a Broadway musical in domestic box office history, grossing $335.5 million to date in the U.S. and Canada. Wicked is also a show about the quiet, insidious rise of a fascist movement that seeks to demonize the intelligent, speaking Animals of Oz, blame them for everything wrong in society, and destroy them by (literally) taking away their voices. The film also stars Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University’s headmistress Madame Morrible; Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero; Ethan Slater as Boq; Marissa Bode in her feature-film debut as Nessarose, Elphaba’s favored sister; and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard.
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