wicked ending
wicked ending
#1wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 1:36amDoes Elphaba pretend to melt and then go through the trap door to be with fiyero in the book ?? Like she does in the musical
WishingOnlyWounds2
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#2re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 1:38amFiyero dies in the book.
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#2re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 1:39am
if by book, you mean the original by mcguire, oh no no no
these two are pretty different
#3re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 2:15amI'd say the musical is nothing like the book
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"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#4re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 7:21amIts sad hoe Fyero gets killed off rather early in the book, but no, everyone dies in that book.
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Madcap Maisie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/08
#5re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 7:59am
the book and show are wayyy different
SPOILER
but yes, in the musical elphaba does pretend to melt and go through the trapdoor to be with Fiyero
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dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#6re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 9:05amthe musical is really different from the book you would never guess the book would turn into a family musical
Madcap Maisie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/08
#7re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 9:52am
the book itself is very dark
it is more about elphabas journey and life than her and Galindas relationship
Elphies charaterization is much more developed in the book
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#8re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 9:56amIn addition to Fiyero's rather early death in the book, it is made abundantly clear in the novel that Elphaba is really dead. It's not some charade.
#9re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 10:14am
The book is really about Elphaba, whereas the musical centers on both Elphaba and Glinda. As a matter of fact there's a stretch of 100 or so pages where Glinda isn't seen at all.
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jejr
Stand-by Joined: 11/29/08
#10re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 10:48amThe last few sentences of the book leave it open that she could return,
#11re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 10:57amit almost makes me call wicked an "original musical" because technically it is based on the book but really only used a few main ideas and the character names from it.... And while I love Wicked, I wouldn't honor it by calling it an original musical and putting it creatively with the likes of Drowsy and [tos]
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#12re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 11:17amAnd Boq has sex with a tiger. I wish they'd musicalized that scene.
#13re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 3:13pm
lol, i was just going to mention that tiger scene.
But it would be hell on wheels if they tried to make Morrible's robot assistant, I'd imagine he ould come out looking like a bad version of C3PO
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#14re: wicked ending
Posted: 12/22/08 at 3:18pmI'm glad they scrapped the tik-toks. A giant clock-influenced set is quite enough.
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