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Molly Edwards

Wicked: For Good review: "Builds to an incredibly cathartic conclusion, but isn't quite as captivating as Part 1"

Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda in Wicked: For Good.

Wicked left the world on tenterhooks when it ended with Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba, the newly crowned (or hatted) Wicked Witch of the West, defying gravity and soaring into the sunset to continue her fight against the Wizard of Oz from the shadows. A year later, her story picks up again in Wicked: For Good, a much darker, more emotional Part Two that builds to an incredibly cathartic conclusion, though isn't quite as captivating as its predecessor.

After her dramatic exit from the Emerald City, all of Oz has been turned against Elphaba thanks to a ruthless propaganda campaign spearheaded by Michelle Yeoh's coldly devious Madame Morrible. While Jeff Goldblum's Wizard continues to pull strings from behind his curtain, the smiling face of Oz is Ariana Grande's Glinda the Good. Reluctantly at her side is her fiancé, the dashing Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey), who is unenthusiastically leading the hunt for Elphaba.

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