A number of musicals have won Best Picture over the years, and another contender for this year's Awards Season will be Jon M. Chu's Wicked: For Good. The first movie, which is streaming with an Amazon Prime subscription, adapted the first act of the stage musical, and the sequel will show its conclusion. I'm an apologist for Act 2 of the Tony-winning hit, but I can't defend the new additions to the music.
What we know about Wicked: For Good was limited ahead of its release, but the movie's soundtrack list revealed that two new songs were added. Namely "The Girl in The Bubble" and "No Place Like Home", sung by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, respectively. Unfortunately, these new songs by the great Stephen Schwartz failed to measure up to the tracks originally featured in the Broadway musical. Let's break it all down.
