Another pun :)
Okay. So I have another bone to pick about movies. This time it's pretty Wicked.
Wicked.
Yes, it is becoming
something we just don't know what. A movie, a TV show, etc. So I've been wandering around the message boards, because that's what I do, and I've noticed a few things, but first I wanted to go over a few ground rules of Wicked (the musical, not the book) to crush your spirits.
1) Galinda and Elphaba are indeed college students. As are a number of characters.
2) Elphaba is Elphaba, no one else but that in The Wicked Witch
3) Galinda is preppy, over the top, and ...her
4) The musical IS the musical, not the book, not the whatever-is-going-to-happen.
Now that that's out of the way let's discuss a few things.
Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth were epic on broadway? Yeah, sure, whatever. Well...how old are they now? We've seen them both on Glee where they play motherly-aged people. And they have lines on their faces, and wrinkles by their eyes. Now I ask you, how would that look on screen?
That's out.
Yes we've heard Lea Michelle sing Defying Gravity, and it was alright. She played Idina's daughter, yeah okay. She is not Elphaba. She is Rachel right now and if Wicked becomes a TV show, she will never do it. Contracted to Fox.
Another hope crushed.
James Marsden as Fiyero? Please. Didn't I say Idina and Kristen were too old? Yeah.
Cut.
As for Anne Hatheway, Emmy Rosum, Kristen Bell, etc. I'm sorry? Can Anne and Kristen hit those high notes? Or does Emmy look like an Elphaba?
Didn't think so.
As for Adam Lambert as Fiyero? Don't go there. He's a musician now. Music mainly. That's it.
Splat.
So here's what I propose you do: wait. See what's going to happen, instead of waste your time wishing and hoping etc.
UNLESS you hope for Ty Bruns to be Fiyero. Then keep hoping.
Adios,
-S.
