Wicked And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The musical Wicked is a bold, revisionist take on The Wizard of Oz. It imagines that back in college, the Wicked Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda the Good Witch of the North (Ariana Grande) were best friends. The sprawling film delivers lavish spectacle, costumes, music, and choreography. But does the long-awaited film live up to the hype?

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0:00.0	This message comes from Lady Mafia. This is the story of the glorified loan shark swimming in
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0:12.9	Lady Mafia is available for listening now on The Binge wherever you get your podcasts.
0:22.9	Well, it's finally here.
0:24.5	The musical Wicked is hitting movie screens across the world.
0:27.8	It's a bold revisionist take on The Wizard of Oz, which imagines that back in college,
0:32.6	the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch of the North were best friends.
0:37.1	Eventually. The sprawling film delivers lavish spectacle, costumes, music. of the West and Glinda the Good Witch of the North were best friends. Eventually,
0:37.9	the sprawling film delivers lavish spectacle, costumes, music, choreography, and performances
0:43.3	from Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. I'm Aisha Harris. And I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're
0:49.0	talking about Wicked on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Joining us today is Waylon Wong. She's the co-host of NPR's Daily Economics Podcast,
0:56.8	The Indicator from Planet Money.
0:58.1	Hey, Waylon.
0:58.8	Hello.
0:59.7	Hello.
1:00.4	Also with us is NPR producer, Mallory.
1:02.6	Hey, Mallory.
1:03.2	Hey, Glenn.
1:04.2	Well, let's get to it.
1:05.0	It has been more than 20 years since Wicked premiered, it became one of the highest grossing musicals in Broadway history.
1:12.2	It's based on the novel by Gregory McGuire with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by
1:17.0	Winnie Holtzman who created this series My So Called Life. Did you all know that? I did not know that.
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