Universal's WICKED Films - News & Discussion Thread- Page 126

[TheOtherOne2]

Posted: 1/23/26 at 12:32pm

QueenAlice said: "Angels in America and Perestroika were written and performed as two separate works on stage in a single season...."

Not exactly.  Angels In America: Part One is called Millennium Approaches and Angels In America: Part Two is called Perestroika. They had been presented as one play by the Eureka Theater Company in San Francisco in May of 1991, though Perestroika was only given a staged reading.  Millennium Approaches was then produced by the Royal National Theatre in January of 1992.  Parts One and Two were then presented in LA at the Mark Taper Forum in November of 1992, with plans announced for it to open on Broadway the following spring.  There were three cast replacements in between (Harper, Joe and Belize) and with an eye on successive Tonys it was decided to open Part One in time for the 92-93 awards and save Part Two for the 93-94.  Each play did in fact win its seasons Best Play Tony (deservedly), but the revivals at the Signature in 2010-11 and on Broadway in 2018 treated Parts One and Two as one play (as I believe it had been categorized on the West End as well). 

It was a slick if crafty move.

Interestingly, Stephen Spinella (Prior) won the Best Featured Actor Tony in 1993 while Ron Leibman (Roy) won Best Actor.  Leibman was not nominated in 1994 and Spinella then won Best Actor.  In 2018, Andrew Garfield won Best Actor for playing Prior and Nathan Lane won Best Featured Actor for playing Roy when the plays were presented as one work.

 

Updated On: 1/23/26 at 12:32 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 1/23/26 at 12:59pm

Yes, I think the major hurdle For Good could not overcome in categories like Production Design, Costume, etc is that, indeed, much of what we see in For Good we already saw- and what was already awarded- in part one. If you are purely assessing the new elements that appear solely in For Good, it's a smaller and weaker body of work. There are only a handful of new settings (Elphaba's treehouse, Glinda's penthouse, Kiamo Ko), costuming is generally variations of things already seen, there are two big makeup elements (Tin Man & Scarecrow) that are decidedly mixed in success. 

Updated On: 1/23/26 at 12:59 PM

[TheOtherOne2]

Posted: 1/23/26 at 1:49pm

Bette's Turban said: "TheOtherOne2 said: "Why on earth should any of them have been nominated two years in a row for the same production? They suckered millions of dollars out of people. They don't need Oscars, too."

Well.. they didn’t sucker anything out of anybody. And the expectation was that Ariana would be nominated . Don’t act like a know it all. "

As the “know it all” in question here, I’d like to say that I thought Wicked had the potential to be one excellent movie and was disappointed in the results of it being stretched into two. I don’t think I’m alone or even a minority in this, so its lack of Oscar nominations didn’t offend me, especially considering that most of its potential nominees were nominated last year. For what it’s worth, I also expected Ariana to be a nominee. She managed to be great in both films and I was surprised that she wasn’t nominated. 

 

Updated On: 1/23/26 at 01:49 PM

[tomorrowBIGLITES]

Posted: 1/23/26 at 1:56pm

Also when the cat fight happens onstage in Act Two. It’s a show stopper. 
You never feel like the audience is squirmy during Act Two. They love it cause it plays to live audience sensibilities.