Oz has never felt more great and powerful than it does in “Wicked: For Good.” 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.
The emotional “untold” story of how green-skinned Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) was unfairly villainized, and the friendship that eventually redeemed her (with Ariana Grande’s sparkling pink Glinda), runs nearly five hours in toto, not counting the yearlong intermission. Treating…
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