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The ‘Wicked’ Movie Made One Huge Improvement to the Stage Show
Something good is happening in Oz.
Within the first ten minutes of the movie, we flash back to Elphaba’s troubled delivery, where her being born green is seen as a huge issue, but it’s perfectly normal that the midwives are a bear-voiced by esteemed actress Sharon D. Clarke and a wolf in a little doctor’s getup. All they had to do was make Dr. Dillamond look like a real, cute goat dressed in little glasses and Banshees of Inisherin –worthy knitwear, and suddenly, for the first time in the over 20 years I’ve loved Wicked, I actually cared about the animal plotline at all. There’s a lot of visually interesting business with how Dr. Dillamond goes about his life as a goat in a people’s world: He kicks a special lever to start his classroom projector, and in his Hagrid’s Hut–style cozy cottage he has a tilting teapot and a mug with a little groove for a hoof.
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