Wicked: For Good (Part Two)

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Anyone booked their tickets yet? I see that there are some double bill midnight screenings.

I’ll probably go next weekend but it depends if there’s any earlier screenings that be relatively child free.
 
I’ve booked for December so that I can see it on the IMAX when I’m in London. A bit annoying that I’ll have to wait a week or so because I don’t want any spoilers about how they handle the ending or any other stage version departures / additional book plots.
 
I’m seeing the double bill on Thursday at Vue’s EPIC screen in London (their IMAX equivalent).

I’ve not done a double bill at the cinema before. I felt the occasion was worth it although I hope it doesn’t drag…
 
Slightly tempted by the double, but don't think I have the patience regardless of how good it is.

If it's available digitally by Christmas/New Year (was the last one, I forget?), I may be inclined to see if a friend fancies doing it at home during the festive perineum.
 
I think it went on sale digitally for £19.99 on New Years Eve last year. Or I think that was the plan and there was a slight delay.
 
Less than week until the full Broadway soundtrack doesn't need to be listened to ever again at least in this house :disco:
 
Going next week. An afternoon booking sadly. A late night showing that has the first one first would have been perfect.
 
Reviews are coming out now, and seem a little... mixed.

3 stars from Empire for example.
 
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seeing this tonight :disco: I can't remember part two of the show but I've heard it's kinda boring so let's see
 
for balance

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variety.com

‘Wicked: For Good’ Review: Between Broom Flights and Witch Fights, It’s Ariana Grande’s Time to Shine in Spectacular Return to Oz

The dazzling follow-up to last year’s 'Wicked' fixes flaws in the Broadway show’s second act, sharpening its critique of those who lead by deception.
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Where the first entry in director Jon M. Chu’s exuberant two-parter succeeded in wowing audiences last fall, its more familiar follow-up delivers what we might call the “whew factor,” as in: Thank goodness, he didn’t blow it.

By now, the world has been built, and Chu and company are free to deliver the best defense of witches this side of “The Crucible,” going so far as to improve on the source material in the process — not L. Frank Baum’s turn-of-the-century novel, but the hit Broadway musical based on Gregory Maguire’s revisionist bestseller.
 
That Telegraph review is certainly very Telegraph ("Woke Hogwarts" :eyes:), perhaps the most Telegraph anything has ever been. I kind of expected it to end in a withering critique of decolonising the Shiz University syllabus.
 
Although I do think this was always doomed to struggle with the source material lacking the LIGHT AND SHADE of the first act. Also, all the best songs have already been and gone.
 
GNL said:
Although I do think this was always doomed to struggle with the source material lacking the LIGHT AND SHADE of the first act. Also, all the best songs have already been and gone.
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Maybe the fact that I fancy Jonathan Bailey will finally make As Long As Your Mine bearable.
 
The Telegraph are now just part of the new movement of right wing media where they have to criticise anything that could vaguely be considered progressive. It's all so tragically predictable.
 
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passthatdutch said:
Having seen a preview screening, and as a fan of the first film, I can say this didn't disappoint, and I thoroughly enjoyed. Two of the songs got applause from the crowd mid screening too.
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No Good Deed and For Good? Or one of the new ones?
 
passthatdutch said:
Having seen a preview screening, and as a fan of the first film, I can say this didn't disappoint, and I thoroughly enjoyed. Two of the songs got applause from the crowd mid screening too.
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Were they the Sky ones?
 
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