{"id":2164693,"date":"2025-11-18T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2164693"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:56:18","slug":"wicked-for-good-review-between-broom-flights-and-witch-fights-its-ariana-grandes-time-to-shine-in-spectacular-return-to-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wicked-for-good-review-between-broom-flights-and-witch-fights-its-ariana-grandes-time-to-shine-in-spectacular-return-to-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wicked: For Good\u2019 Review: Between Broom Flights and Witch Fights, It\u2019s Ariana Grande\u2019s Time to Shine in Spectacular Return to Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oz has never felt more great and powerful than it does in \u201cWicked: For Good<\/a>.\u201d Where the first entry in director Jon M. Chu<\/a>\u2019s exuberant two-parter succeeded in wowing audiences last fall, its more familiar follow-up delivers what we might call the \u201cwhew factor,\u201d as in: Thank goodness, he didn\u2019t blow it. By now, the world has been built, and Chu<\/a> and company are free to deliver the best defense of witches this side of \u201cThe Crucible<\/a>,\u201d going so far as to improve on the source material in the process \u2014 not L. Frank Baum<\/a>\u2019s turn-of-the-century novel, but the hit Broadway musical based on Gregory Maguire<\/a>\u2019s revisionist bestseller.<\/p>\n

The emotional \u201cuntold\u201d story of how green-skinned Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo<\/a>) was unfairly villainized, and the friendship that eventually redeemed her (with Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s sparkling pink Glinda), runs nearly five hours in toto, not counting the yearlong intermission. Treating…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oz has never felt more great and powerful than it does in \u201cWicked: For Good.\u201d Where the first entry in director Jon M. Chu\u2019s exuberant two-parter succeeded in wowing audiences last fall, its more familiar follow-up delivers what we might call the \u201cwhew factor,\u201d as in: Thank goodness, he didn\u2019t blow it. By now, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2164694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2164693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Wicked-For-Good-Review-Between-Broom-Flights-and-Witch-Fights.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164695,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164693\/revisions\/2164695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}