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rg7759 said: "
Can they fix the color before this is released?"


I wish they could fix the lighting. I have no idea why you’d shoot “The Wizard and I” in flat, whitelighting. Imagine if that song had been shot while the sun was going down at Shiz, with a sky of purples and oranges and pinks? Instead she runs out into a washed out field of bone dry hay and an overcast sky. Missed opportunity."

Imagine how we

Jonathan Cohen said: "ACL2006 said: "There hasn't been a movie musical that got this much praise and strong reviews since Chicago. It's been that long unfortunately. So many fell just short (The Color Purple, West Side Story, Les Mis, Hairspray). And there's been plenty of flops(Rent, Jersey Boys, Dear Evan Hansen, In The Heights, Footloose, Rock of Ages, Phantom, The Producers)."

La La Land won 6 Oscars, not even counting the one it only won

OharaFosseWolfe888 said: "TheatreFan4 said: "This was a perfectly good movie, that was a good half hour too long. For a movie that left the first act virtually unchanged only "expanded" it wasn't expanded well, just padded out. Anyone talking Oscars for anything but production design is high on their own supply. Defying Gravity was impeccably filmed, I applaud them for that. Going back to being a teenager in 2008 baulking at how it'd come off on film as not

veronicamae said: "theatretenor2 said: "Lighting

The lighting is a recurring issue, with key moments suffering from poor execution. For example, in "The Wizard and I," Elphaba's scene in the gazebo feels awkwardly and poorlylit as if the chimes themselves were supposed to light her?"

Maybe this doesn't change your opinion, but the stained glass chimes were there to degreenify her by canceling out her green wi

As I mentioned earlier, the writers branch of the Academy has had a long love/hate relationship with musicals. Even Tony Kusher, one of the best scriptwriters of any

Here are my spoiler-free thoughts on Wicked before the reviews start rolling in at noon, and what I think we’ll read from critics today: First off, this movie blew me away. It exceeded my expectations in almost every way and is absolutely one of the best musical adaptations of my lifetime. It is an instant classic. As someone who considers Chicago the gold standard of musical films in the last 25 years, Wicked comes very close to matching it—and I’m still debating if it beat