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Musical Master said: "kdogg36 said: "MagicalMusical said: "I wouldhave loved to see one3 and a half hourfilm, though, too."

I understand why this would beappealing from a stylistic perspective, but splitting it into two 2-hour-ish movies got me (a very infrequent movie-goer) to spend two successive Thanksgiving afternoonsin a cinema. If it were a single 3.5-hour epic, I would absolutely have waited to see it at home on a streaming service.&

MagicalMusical said: "I don't think of the opening sequence as too literal. You have it start out hearingGlinda saying the witch is dead from waterand show the hat, THEN seethe four going to the wizard, THEN back to Glinda appearing and saying the witch is dead and the Wizard departed without mentioning the water. Yeah. I just take it all as cinematic artistic license. I know I'm using the wrong words, but hopefully you get what I mean.

I wouldhave loved to see one

QueenTwinnied said: "joevitus said: "And why is poor Toto on a leash?"

I thought that was a pretty clear and obvious directorial choice. The second film strongly emphasized Elphaba's commitment to animal rights so leashing Toto would make her hate Dorothy even more. Elphaba probably doesn't even know what a "leash" is and would be perturbed to see a dog dragged around by one."

The girl killed her sister and stole her si

Should have been one movie, three-and-a-half hours tops with an intermission. If you can make the entire world wait an entire year for Act 2 and still have them show up, you could have gotten them back in their seats after a 15 minute intermission to watch the rest of your movie.

One thing that has always bothered me in Part 1 is the opening when the camera panned past the castle to the four moving down the Yellow Brick Road, and then to Munchkinland for Glinda's arr

Saw it last night, and I wasn't entirely able to appreciate it because, yes, right as the Universal logo appeared, a group of five sat down beside me and began talking loudly to themselves. When I said, "Please don't talk during the movie," they actually responded, "We can talk in a movie! It's loud, anyway" and told me I should move if it bothered me. I got an usher, who made them quiet down, but they still kept talking sotto-voice and making loud noises

I agree with much of that, but I'd say the biggest problem with the original Rich and Happy number (although infinetly preferable to That Frank) is that it's so campy and silly we don't really think of any of these people as a threat or as Frank in some sort of horrible place in his life. If the worst that he's come to is that he's very rich and likes to entertain a bunch of Hollywood phonies, one could think of a lot worse lives to lead. Of course, that isn't the

Kad said: "Yeah, once the action of Part 2 gets closer to and starts to coincide with the events of The Wizard of Oz, it feels like there's a mad rush to get all the origin details onto the board, timeline be damned- and the result is it feels like nearlyeverything we know about Dorothy's adventure was due to events that happened right as she got there. I thought in expanding act 2, they would've at least attempted to smooth out the timeline here and give these o

So I've got two questions about this show, one I don't think has been asked and one I'm sure has been discussed, but I can't find it. For context, I've never seen the show and unfortunately live nowhere near New York, so am unlikely to.

1) Do you think the script reads funny? I was thinking of buying a copy (though the $40-odd price is a little steep) just so I could experience the show in some form, but I wonder if it's the delivery that creates

Theatrefan2 said: "
Actually there were plenty who didnt think it was fantastic in London. Theres just no point in saying it as you just get people shouting back at you.Same as when you dared say anything critical about Sunset."

Not buying this.

1) Even Sunset got it's share of naysaying posts here.

2) And Gypsy got comments that ranged from pro to con to in between.

I have trouble believing if "plenty" of people didn&