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People of YouTube, I feel I need to let you know that something has changed within me. Something is not the same because since the Wicked movie officially came out in cinemas at the end of last week, I have been forever changed. Changed for good, you might say. Although not in part one. And that stands to reason, because oh my God. Hey, my name is Mickey Jo and I am obsessed with all things theater. I'm a huge fan of the musical Wicked. I have seen it many times in many different countries as it happens. I was so excited to see the feature film adaptation that fans have been waiting two decades for and it did not disappoint. If you want to know what I thought of the film and you haven't yet watched my spoiler free or spoiler inclusive reviews, you can go and check those out right here on my theatre themed YouTube channel or on podcast platforms. But today we're going to be analyzing a little further and I'm going to be talking through the many hidden details and Easter eggs that you may have missed during Wicked Part 1. Some of them nod to the stage musical, some of them nod to the wizard of Oz, of course, which the book that Wicked is based on is inherently a take on, and others are details that point towards the future of the story, AKA the second act of the musical, which will be adapted Into Wicked Part 2 to be released in cinemas in late 2025. Now, I'm not the first person to do a video like this on YouTube. I have seen a couple of other people doing it. The Wicked movie is super popular right now, but I feel like we haven't necessarily had the perspective of a dedicated musical theater fan who has seen multiple different productions of wicked upwards of 20 times on three different continents. I'm just saying I don't want to show off, but I have credentials and some of the discussion of the show and its themes and its characters that I've been seeing across social media have made me need to bite my tongue a little bit. So we are to set the record straight because there has been so much speculation, innuendo, attuendo, I literally cannot stop launching into the script now. This is the first of multiple deep dives into the Wicked movie that I will be sharing over the coming weeks in a series I am calling Wicked Wednesdays. Check back over the next four Wednesdays for more Wicked movie content. If you want to make sure you don't miss those, make sure you're subscribed with the notifications turned on somewhere down here below my face so you don't miss any of those videos. And if the Wicked movie is not for you but you like the rest of my content, then make sure you have the notifications turned on, because I will be sharing many more other videos on every other day of the week. That's right, I will be posting daily videos probably between now and the end of the year because I have so much to catch up on. So we'd better get on with it. Let's talk Wicked Movie Easter Eggs Now. I am only one person. I have seen this film twice, but there are a lot of details to pick up on and I dare say I'm going to keep noticing things on repeat visits. I don't think I'm done seeing it in cinemas, but if there are any details I haven't spoken about in this video, feel free to drop them in the comments section down below. Yes, there are going to be spoilers For Wicked Part 1 in this video, but also spoilers for the plot of Wicked Part 2. If you haven't yet seen the stage musical, then first of all, I'm fascinated by you. And second of all, there will be some spoilers in this video, so maybe wait and come back to this at a later date. In the meantime though, let's do it. Let's talk about Wicked Easter eggs. So I've broken these down into four sections. We're going to talk about homages to the wizard of Oz, homages to the stage musical, nods to the second film, as well as a handful of other hidden details, some of which might be pretty obvious, but it's a very vivid, visually overstimulating films, so you never know. Let's start with the wizard of Oz, because many of these references happen right towards the beginning of the film, and obviously there's so many things I could talk about here because they are set in the same fictional land they both take place in Oz. We visit many of the same locations, we see some of the same characters. You see Dorothy and friends walking away from the witch's tower, heading back towards the Emerald City with the witch's broomstick in hand. If you've forgotten this from the wizard of Oz, that's the entire reason that they had to go and seek out the witch, because the wizard had demanded her broomstick as payment for granting all of their heart's desires. As we now know from meeting the wizard in Wicked. Good luck with that Dorothy. But she's fine in the end. She clicks her heels and all as well. Honestly, she has a much less complicated time of it than Elphaba and Glinda Anyway, what's happening musically when we see Dorothy and Friends is the overture from the stage version of Wicked. And right before we see them, our perspective passes over a rainbow, paying homage to the iconic song from the first film, Somewhere over the Rainbow. And at that exact moment, we hear in the overture the unlimited theme. This is music that we hear a few times throughout Stephen Schwartz's score in the show, usually accompanied by the lyrics Unlimited. And then either my future is. Or together we're. And what's special about this melody is that is also a nod to Somewhere over the Rainbow because it's the same seven notes. I think I read somewhere that seven sequential notes are the most that you can borrow from something without it being plagiarism. So if it went any further, then it would be a copyright violation. But at just seven notes, it's a loving homage, only it's set to a different rhythm, so it might be easier to hear if I sing them to each other's rhythms, for example, Unlimited My Future or Somewhere over the Rainbow. Anyway, that exact moment aligning with us, passing over a rainbow is the most beautiful, immediate nod to the wizard of Oz I could possibly think of. And it's not the only time we hear an instrumental version of that melody. We hear it again when we see the Wicked title card, the font, choice of which, the design, the aesthetic of which is in and of itself an homage to the classic wizard of Oz title card and that era of Hollywood cinema. Now, the next major wizard of Oz Easter egg that I really enjoyed is when Elphaba is singing the wizard and Eye. Now, the wizard and Eye is Elphaba's I Want Song. And Stephen Schwartz has written some of musical theater's best and most iconic I Want Songs. This being a convention within a musical where our protagonist, usually towards the start of the first act, declares their objectives and their desires. For Elphaba, it's the opportunity to meet the wizard and make something of herself and possib alleviate her green complexion. And there are a lot of different things that happen within this sequence. We're going to talk about some more of them later in the video. But the moment I want to focus on as a Wizard of Oz homage is right towards the end where she's running around shiz. And then she breaks out into this open field. Is it a wheat field? Is it a cornfield? I don't know. But it does seem familiar of the Kansas location where Judy Garlander's Dorothy sang her I Want Song Somewhere over the Rainbow. And it establishes immediately A parity between these two characters who, within the context of the wizard of Oz and the story the Wonderful wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, would be viciously opposed to one another. Here we see Elphaba closer to Dorothy than we've ever seen her before. Of course, the Wizard Eye also contains the unlimited theme. It's the first time we hear it sung with lyrics over the top. And at the end, when she's finished singing the wizard and Eye, she looks out towards the horizon and we see what? We see another rainbow and we see blue birds flying over it. Something invoked in the lyrics of Somewhere over the rainbow Blue birds fly Birds fly over the rainbow why then, oh, why, why can't I? John M. Chu brings that visual back as a reminder of the concept of longing and desire. And the I Want song. It's another really beautiful way of marrying that moment to the original. Now, the next wizard of Oz nod is so funny, is so witty, I didn't notice it the first time. It happens in the middle of Popular, which is a very visually overstimulating sequence, but Ariana Grande, as Glinda, is tossing Elphaba a bunch of accessories and she's throwing her a bunch of different shoes, and she pulls out a pair of red shoes and tosses them at her. Very familiar of the ruby slippers. And given what is going to happen later on in this narrative, given what happens in the wizard of Oz, the idea of Glinda the Good just throwing Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West, a pair of red shoes, like, here, have them. There you go. When she spends the whole of the wizard of Oz telling Dorothy never to let the witch have your shoes is so funny, just like, so carefree, like, here, have some shoes, they're red. And just tosses them aside like they're not the ruby slippers. And in fact, In Wicked Part 1 and 2, we're not going to see ruby slippers because they are silver shoes, as per the original Wonderful wizard of Oz. In fact, it was the film adaptation the wizard of Oz, that changed them to red so that they would look great and brilliant and vibrant in Technicolor. But it's yet another great nod to that, nonetheless. We're going to look at a scene where a character from the wizard of Oz is first introduced in the Wicked universe. I'm talking about the Cowardly lion now. We meet him as a scared, caged lion cub. Elphaba immediately is horrified by this, and in order to resolve this and free him, she ends up inadvertently enchanting some poppies. Now, this is a bit of a departure from the stage version where she casts a spell over everyone else in the classroom except herself and Fiero that has them dancing around something else that does happen in the wizard of Oz. Funnily enough, although was cut from the film, I'm talking about the jitterbug sequence. The real ones know the jitterbug. Oh, the bees in the breeze and the bats in the trees have a terrible, horrible bug. The film opts for poppies instead, which are an homage to another wizard of Oz moment where Dorothy and friends are temporarily incapacitated by a field of enchanted poppies that the Wicked Witch of the west has used to deter them and slow them in their quest towards the Emerald City because the poppies put them to sleep. Now, in the wizard of Oz, it only affects Dorothy and the lion because of their physiology. The Tin man ends up rusting himself solid though, because he's crying so much more on that later. Don't let me forget about that. And the scarecrow is unaffected because he's a scarecrow. Now. There's been some speculation about that being linked to the reason Fiero, who in Wicked Spoiler alert here again will later become the scarecrow because of spells that Elphaba casts in order to save his life. There's some speculation that this is the reason why he isn't affected by the poppies, but I don't sign on to this because the lion cub isn't put to sleep by the poppies and Bok, who is also in the classroom, is put to sleep by the poppies. I don't think this is a deliberate nod to him later becoming the scarecrow. We will see those nods later on in the video. I think this more to do with, like in the stage version, Elphaba subconsciously protecting him from it. The film is also clever in establishing Poppy's being in the classroom beforehand via a conversation that Elphaba and Dilmund have about liking the flower. And this isn't where the references end, because after everyone's been put to sleep, Elphaba and Fiero take the lion cub away and they try and get it to safety. In the stage version, they just run out of the classroom, but in the film they come across a pair of bicycles and the lion cub gets placed into a bicycle basket. Very familiar of Ms. Gulch at the start of the wizard of Oz. Pre Oz back in Kansas, who is cycling around on a bicycle and critically trying to get a beloved small cute animal destroyed because she is not A fan of Toto, Dorothy's dog. Here we have Elphaba completely flying in the face of that. Not literally flying, not yet at least, because she is trying to rescue a lion cub. She is pro animals. But because she is cycling on the bicycle with the basket with the lion cub in the basket, it's very familiar of that Ms. Gulch moment. The final Easter eggs here are musical ones. You can hear some of the notes of the beginning of Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead as we arrive in Munchkinland and there is celebration about the death of the witch before the arrival of Glinda. And you can also hear a very slowed down version of the notes from Ms. Gulch's theme from the wizard of Oz as the fly monkeys are first breaking through the windows of the Wizard's tower and descending through the skies and Elphaba is watching them in shock. We hear a very slowed down version of Da Da Da. And only those first few notes. Now, those were some of the references to the wizard of Oz. Again, comment below with any that I may have missed. Let's move on and talk about references to the stage musical that this is based on. So we have another right at the beginning of the thing as we pan around to this shot of the hat on the floor with a puddle, with steam rising off of the puddle, implying the melting of Elphaba the Witch. And this picks right up from the end of her story in the wizard of Oz. But it also feels like a nod to the original Broadway production, which at the start of its run at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway, used to start with a big hat over the middle of the stage and ensemble members appearing out from under it, as well as reacting to it with shock and dismay. Now, I'm not sure if it's when the show transferred to London and made a couple of small changes that were subsequently implemented into the Broadway production that the hat was removed. But at some point during the first few years of Wicked, the hat was gone and they now no longer have a giant hat at the beginning. Instead, there is a projection of Elphaba in green on the back wall. But seeing this hat huge across the cinema screen definitely reminded me of that moment in the show's history. Another visual reference to the show comes at the end of the song Popular. As I say, many different things happening in this number. But right at the end, Ariana, as Glinda, kicks back a mirror so that it falls flat across her many, many suitcases and then steps on top of it and strikes this final pose with A mirror in hand, looking at herself, hugely familiar of the stage production. And honestly, this could either have been a choice from director John M. Chu to deliberately pay homage, it could have also been the obvious thing for Glinda to do. Or my theory is it could have been a choice made by Ariana Grande, who is a self confessed super fan of the musical Wicked and apparently advocated for many of the lines from the show to remain in the film's script. On I suppose we could also talk about Ariana Grande doing a specific opt up from the show when she sings the high note at the end of no One Mourns the Wicked that I've heard often attributed to Megan Hilty. And she did it often, but Kristin Chenoweth did it first and I just feel like I have to put that back out into the universe. And it does feel like Kristen is Ariana's biggest inspiration for Glinda. You can hear that in much of her delivery, especially in that song. Now speaking of Kristen, we have some very exciting cameos towards the end of part one of Wicked, when they arrive in the Emerald City and they're singing one short day, Elphaba and Glinda attend a show called Wizzamania. This happens in the stage musical, but it's more extended in the film as it tells us more about the history of the Grimmery and the arrival of the wizard and how he was able to convince the people of Oz that he was magical. And this story is told via a little piece of open air Promenade community theater, which I have an awful lot of time for, by the way, starring two very familiar witches as the wise and powerful magical ones of Oz, long since dead. They are of course the show's original stars, Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth. Idina, who won a Tony Award for playing Elphaba in the original Broadway production and also originated the role in the West End production, and who I saw at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in 2006. Be jealous. Be very jealous. And Kristin Chenoweth, who of course originated Glinda on Broadway. And though there were many different theories about where we were going to see these two, if we were going to see these two in the film, should Idina be Elphaba's mother? Should one of them be morrible? Should they be teachers? Like various different schools of thought about how they ought to be included, some people even saying they should still play Elphaba and Glenda in the film, which I think ultimately probably would not have been the right choice. I think this is just about Perfect, because they are the wise and magical ones. I mean, first of all, they get to play performers, they get to play singers. Doing this little musical number and kind of being affectionate with each other, but also having a little bit of a moment of rivalry. There's a part where Adina's magic wand lights up immediately and Kristin's doesn't. Familiar of Glinda not having as much of a grasp on her magical ability in the stage show and having to tap the wands together to get it to work. But also the idea of them portraying these magical, historic characters from Wicked's history is so special. And while they're still on the stage, Kristen does a very Glinda esque and also a very Kristin Chenoweth esque high note. And Adina sings the iconic defying gravity battle cry riff. Ah. Which actually doesn't appear in the film in quite the same way. Cynthia Erivo has a different interpretation of that. Then afterwards, they walk out into the crowd and they each have a moment with their respective counterparts. Idina with Cynthia and Kristen with Ariana, which is a very funny moment where they say, everyone now sing. And then Ariana goes to sing and she puts her hand over her mouth again. It's very Glinda coded. I love that they were featured so heavily in the film. I love that we got to hear them sing and they got to create new characters. They're still creating characters in the Wicked universe. How magic is that? And it's in this same sequence that we had two other cameos as well. Now, the first person we see after this is Winnie Holtzman, the book writer, the Tony Award winning book writer of Wicked, who also worked on the film screenplay. I didn't notice this cameo the first time around. Shame on me. But she is the one who reacts to the story of the wizard being able to read the Grimmery and she proclaims out, he can read the Grimmery. He's magical. Or something to that effect. And I love that this relates to the book and reading because she's the show's writer, at least one of the writers, because the composer Stephen Schwartz also appears. He gets one of the most iconic lines from the show. He appears in a tower, he has a wonderful mustache and he gets to say, the wizard will see you. Now, it's not quite as punchy and dynamic as it is in the stage version, but they give him a little bit of a pause leading into that to afford it more of a moment. Now, the final nod to the stage version may not be an Easter Egg, but I choose to believe that it is. This is not something I've heard anyone talking about so far, but Fiero's arrival into the story is a little different in the film than it was in the musical. In the film, he almost knocks Elphaba over on horseback. It's straight out of, like, period Ro romance novels. It's very Jane Eyre. Someone pointed out on a previous video, it's in the middle of the night. And though she is prepared for him to be shocked and appalled by her green complexion, he mostly just comments on how defensive she is for no real reason and how she flies into this tirade. In the stage version, he is definitely more obnoxious towards her. And it's his driver pulling his cart who nearly knocks her down. He used to have, I think it's called a sawhorse on the front of the cart. But then for the London production, when they made the changes, they made this just a driver called Averick pulling his cart around. And Fiero is sleeping in the back, immediately characterizing him as this very careless laissez faire individual. And his first conversation with Elphaba is also very different, where he says something slightly mocking towards her. He says, maybe the driver saw green and thought it meant go. Completely different vibes. Now, the Easter egg I'm referring to during the movie scene, when she asks him, do you always go around like this, nearly running people down? Something very similar to what she says in the stage, his reply is, no, sometimes I'm sleeping. And I choose to believe that that is a reference to the fact that when you see him in the Broadway musical, at that exact moment, he's sleeping. So it's like sometimes, as the Fiero character in the world, sometimes I'm sleeping, sometimes I'm on horseback, like in the film. And sometimes, like in the stage musical, I'm sleeping. I am choosing to believe that's a deliberate reference and not a very happy accident. I dare say there are more references to the stage show, specifically within the film. I was trying to look for details within the choreography. Ultimately, they are the same charact and one is based on the other. So there are many, many things that we could talk about. But if you notice anything particularly clever and specific, let me know in the comments. Now, let's talk about just a handful of hidden details that happen quite quickly or quite subtly that you may have missed. And again, you may have caught all of these, and they may seem a little bit pandering, but it's worth saying anyway. Now, when Elphaba arrives at Shiz to drop off her sister Nessa Rose, who is enrolling. She is quite quickly annoyed by the way her sister is treated by the head sistress, Ms. Coddle, and Elphaba, like in the stage show, casts some magic in order to from happening. One of the many things that happens in the film when Elphaba wreaks a certain amount of devastation on the Shiz courtyard is there is a mural of the wonderful wizard of Oz that cracks to reveal a handful of animal scholar characters beneath who may have been the founders of Shiz early teachers at Shiz. In any case, it's an indication of the Shiz that was and the way that animals used to be respected and cherished even, and how the cult of personality surrounding the wizard and his arrival is literally covering all of that over. It indicates both a Shiz that has changed, a Shiz that has come to embrace the wizard in recent years, and moving away from the respect for animals. That tells us a lot about the politics of the world that we are living in. In Wicked, just before this has happened, there is a welcome speech where we get a little bit of a meet cute between Bok and Nesseros. Now in the stage show, we don't see them interacting whatsoever until Glinda, during Dancing Through Life, suggests that BOQ go and ask out Nessa Rose in order to redirect his affection that he's delivering towards Glinda. She wants none of that. She's spotted Fiero, he looks great in tight trousers. She's like, boq, go ask her out. I don't want nothing to do with this anyway. The film establishes this with a little more depth because there is an unspoken moment between Boq and Nesseros when everyone stands during the opening ceremony and Boq, because he is a short munchkin, can't see over people and Nessa, because she is a wheelchair user, can't either. They lock eyes at this moment and acknowledge that neither of them are able to see. Speaking of unspoken conversations, conversations, there is so much happening in the eyes of Elphaba and Glinda right after they sing together in Defying Gravity when Elphaba suggests that Glinda come with her and that the two of them together would be unstoppably powerful. Glinda considers it for a moment, but then goes to get Elfie a cloak and has tears in her eyes and she knows but this is not something that she has the strength of character to go through with, and Elphaba recognizes that and takes a moment to grieve. What will Possibly be the last time they might see each other. All of this happening completely unspoken, but they come to understand the decision each one is making before they sing. I hope you're happy now that you're choosing this. Now back to the wizard and his cult of personality. This whole defying gravity scene is taking place in his attic, clearly a private area where no one is allowed to go, because this is where he has stashed many of the things he has brought to Oz with him that speak to the life he had before. If you don't know, the wizard arrived like Dorothy from the human world, where he was a man called Oscar Diggs, or at least that was his stage name, because that is the name that we see on all of the memorabilia here in the attic. It also might be an indication of where Oz comes from. I don't actually know my Oz history pre the wizard of Oz, so if that's completely untrue, I apologize and someone can correct me in the comments section down below. The memorabilia also contains references to Omaha, Nebraska. Now, earlier on, in that scene I was telling you about, where we see him as part of the Wizardmania show in projection, reading the Grimmery. He seems to be able to read it and be reading magical language. And he says, O Maha. In fact, this is Omaha, Nebraska, where he comes from. And it's not the only time it's referenced in the film. Because earlier, before they've headed to the Emerald City, Elphaba has received a little invitation via small balloon that has flown up to the entrance to Shiz. And on it it has a little bit. It has like various things. It's got little animals. It's a lovely little invitation, actually a very charming way of sending mail. But on it is some writing that says, oh, the whole word would read omni, which in Latin means all things or everything. I may not know Aussian law, but I know GCSE Latin. But it also nods to Omaha, Nebraska. Now, when we finally meet the man behind the curtain who is the wonderful wizard of Oz in the Wicked movie, he quickly takes Alfred and Glinda over to this little model village diorama thing he set up. He calls it the Oz of Tomorrow. And in presenting it, he is very familiar of Walt Disney giving you World's Fair, giving you Carousel of Progress, all of those classic Walt Disney vibes. Now, neither Wicked nor the wizard of Oz are Disney films, but I am a little tickled by that invocation. And I don't think it's the only Disney invocation that we get. But the Other one is more about classic magical cinema. For this one, we're heading back to the Wizard's Tower, and the moment that El cast the levitation spell from the Grimory for the second time, Glinda says, well, where are your wings? Perhaps you're not as powerful as you thought. And then we hear something move, moving in the chamber down below. Because unbeknownst to her, what she has enchanted is the broom, and she has imbued it with the ability to fly through the skies. And that is how she is going to fly around on a broomstick, becoming the Wicked Witch of the west that we visually recognize. Now, before the broom flies up through this ascending chamber to meet her, it sort of dances around on the floor in a way. Familiar of what Fantasia. Both times I've seen this, I've thought there's no reason for them to be referencing a Disney film. But this looks so much like the dancing brooms from Fantasia. And then it hit me. Aside from the wizard of Oz, Fantasia might be among the earliest cinema portrayals of magicians and sorcery and magic and spells. And as such, it feels like something that a filmmaker like John M. Chu would definitely pay homage to. With this moment for my final section of Easter eggs and hidden details, then let's talk about all of the things in the film that nod to the future of these characters and where we are going in Wicked Part 2. Again, there are spoilers coming up if you don't know this plot. So sticking with the wizard. Feel like we labor the point even more in this film about the revelation that he is Elphaba's father. It's not all the way revealed in this one, but his voice is super recognizable during the flashback to his rendezvous with her mother. No, like we can tell, that's Jeff Goldblum. He's also credited on the cast album, and that also happens in the stage show, as do his lyrics in the song Sentimental man, where he's saying, I am a sentimental man who always longed to be a father. A song that he reprises in the stage show at the moment he finds out that Elphaba, who he believes to be dead, was his daughter. Now, in the film, as he's singing, that's why I do the best I can to treat each citizen of ours like son or daughter. He looks specifically at Elphaba as he says daughter, but that's not the only thing they put in there, because there's an added line of dialogue where he talks about her being familiar and asks if they've met Before. Now, those of you who know the stage musical will know that Elphaba didn't really melt when the bucket of water was thrown at her. Morrible and the wizard and Glyn all think that she melted and is dead. But Fiero and Elphaba, who hatched this plan together, know otherwise. And right at the start of the film, there is a shot of a figure on horseback riding away from where we know the tower to have been from where Elphaba allegedly melted. Is this Elphaba on Fiero's horse going to meet him somewhere? We know it's not Fiero, because again, if you don't know, Fiero becomes the Scarecrow. And we see the Scarecrow with Dorothy and the rest of the franchise friends walking towards Oz. They have her broomstick, so that explains why she's got to be on horseback. The other theory about this moment is that it's Glinda trying to rise to Oz and beat them there because no one knew that she was also in the chamber when all of this went down. Now, speaking of Fiero and the Scarecrow, there are so many moments that nod to him becoming the Scarecrow. The highlights in his hair that look kind of like golden and straw. Like there are details on his costuming that look Scarecrow. If you don't know. One of my favorite things about the choreography for the show is in dancing through life. He does so many Scarecrow esque sort of choreographic moments. And the whole choreography of that number is themed around like how the Scarecrow might move. And that seems to be true of the film choreography as well. There are so many moments where he sort of tumbles and falls down to his knees and slides around on his knees. It's both suggestive and Scarecrow esque. But my favorite one is a new line of dialogue that caught me by surprise. Elphaba says to him after their first meeting, gets stuffed. And eventually he will and it will be because of her. That's not the only throwaway line of dialogue that hints at a character's future, because Bok, who, if you don't know, eventually becomes the Tin man as we know him when talking to Glinda when making awkward conversation during their time at Shiz, says at one point I cry a lot, which is something we know the Tin man does because he cries and then rusts himself solid constantly. In the wizard of there's also a shot where Glinda hands him back a handkerchief and places it right where his heart would be. A little nod to the Tin man. Needing a heart because something magical and bad happens to box. And finally we get literal flashes forward with the visions that Elphaba has about the fate of Dr. Dillamond. This happens for the first time while he and his other animal associates are singing something bad, talking about their increasingly precarious position in the land of Oz, among society, and the possibility of of fleeing. Elphaba sees a disturbing flash forwards to Dilamund being kept in a cage, the same kind of a cage that the lion cub is kept in when he is later introduced. But that's not the only vision that Elphaba has, because she also sees the celebration in Munchkin Land during U when she sings and I just had a vision, almost like a prophecy. I know it sounds truly crazy and true, the vision's hazy, but I swear someday there'll be a celebration throughout Oz. That's all to do with me. And I feel like in the stage musical it's a clever lyric, but we did always get why? Because you don't consider that what she's seeing is something we've just seen and no one mourns the Wicked. Like she's right, there is going to be a celebration, but she doesn't understand the context. It's all to do with her, but for very different reasons. The film really hammers that point home because we see a flash of the familiar image from no one mourns the Wicked. The only other thing I will say is that we really get a sense of Glinda's trajectory and where she is heading with all of the added moments in the film where she talks about curating her reputation. When you see her turning to her friends and asking about how she was perceived by the crowd and how moments came across, this is really her driving force going into the second act and the second film. Anyway, those have been all of the Easter eggs and hidden details that I wanted to share with you as a musical theater enthusiast and a Wicked super fan here on YouTube. Again, if there are any that I have missed, any clever details that you would like to share with us, pop them in the comments section down below. In the meantime, stay tuned for next week's Wicked Wednesday video, where I think the next thing I'm going to be talking about is comparing the stage show and the film and talking about the many different changes that they made. We're talking new characters, we're talking changed characters, we're talking new music, we're talking new lines of dialogue. In the meantime, make sure you're subscribed right here on YouTube with the notifications turned on so you don't miss any of my upcoming content, wicked or otherwise. I hope that everyone is staying safe and that you have a stagey day for 10 more seconds. I'm Mickey Joe Theatre. Oh my God. Hey, thanks for watching. Have a stage subscribe.