<\/p>\n\u201cThe song in its original form was really beautiful, but he and I discussed making it connect to what she was actually going through,\u201d Erivo tells USA TODAY.<\/p>\n
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\u201cBefore, it was sort of like a grand platitude to everyone, but it needed to really connect with her and her experience as well. So there were some lyric shifts and changes just to make it feel really human, because I think in the specificity, it then connects with everybody else as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\nIn the opening scene of \u201cWicked: For Good,\u201d Elphaba frees a team of yaks that have been forced into constructing the Yellow Brick Road. The high-flying action sequence is new to the musical, which couldn’t capture the scope of the Wizard\u2019s efforts to silence the animals on a Broadway stage.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nScreenwriter Winnie Holzman says she wanted to explore how \u201cthe Yellow Brick Road was built by animal slave labor, and the ways in which they were being exploited by the Wizard and his spies. Within the musical, there\u2019s an understanding that all of those things are happening (offstage), but this felt like a really great opportunity to show how the road came to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the end of \u201cNo Place Like Home,\u201d Elphaba offers words of hope for Oz\u2019s future, singing, \u201cIf we just keep fighting for it \/ We will win back and restore it.\u201d That message resonates even louder in 2025.<\/p>\n
The film was written roughly five years ago, \u201cand in 2020, there were certain things we were aware of, obviously,\u201d Holzman says. \u201cBut we were really describing something that has a timeless quality. The whole idea of these clearly blameless beings being othered and treated with contempt, because it was convenient for the person in power \u2012 that’s not just the story of right now, but a story that’s happened over and over and over again in history.<\/p>\n\n“We’re talking about something that we as humans keep confronting.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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