Wicked movie gay
The Wizard of Oz (1939) never spoke to me as a child. Quite the opposite, in fact; it terrified me. Certainly, the story is unsettling: Being swept away in a tornado is no one’s idea of a good time. But it was not that, nor was it the drabness of Dorothy’s existence on the farm.
It was the costumes.
I was terrified of anyone or anything in costume as a kid: mascots, the Easter Bunny, a mall Santa minding his control business. All of them were suspect to my childish eyes, and one look at the Tin Man had me begging my father to come back to golf. Harrowing, to think I was so upset I wanted him to put on golf.
Wicked, though, was different. I had read Gregory Maguire’s book by the time I got tickets as a Christmas gift, and I was…perplexed, to say the least, as to how they planned to make a musical out of a book rather bright on whimsy and rather heavy on fascism and subjugation of people of different races. And yes, the musical greatly diminishes the political uprising that is, I would say, about 87% of the manual. Honestly though, sitting in that theater, I don’t ponder I could possess told you what the book was about by intermission. That’s how adv it (say it with me, and get
Wicked fans only just realising how many of the cast members are actually gay
When news first dropped that iconic musical Wicked was set to get the silver screen treatment and be directed by John M. Chu, fans couldn't wait to detect out who had been cast.
Following news that Ariana Grande would be playing Galinda (later Glinda the Good), and Cynthia Erivo would be portraying Elphaba (later The Wicked Witch of the West), it was obvious that the film - which has been split into two parts - were going to be a bonafide hit.
Further cast members include Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang and Marissa Bode.
Beyond the cast being incredibly talented, as a whole it has been lauded for the scope of LGBTQ+ representation among them.
All in all, six members of the cast are openly part of the LGBTQ+ community - leading some to assert that the release of Wicked is a huge moment for gender non-conforming people.
Cynthia Erivo
Rumoured to be dating actress and producer Lena Waithe, Erivo said in an interview with The Standard, regarding her song 'The Good': "It’s not necessarily autobiographical. But I am queer.&
I saw Wickedthis weekend, and I can’t block talking about it. I saw the musical on Broadway for the first time when I was 16-years-old, and I am now 32-years-old, DOUBLE the age I was then. I’ve loved Wicked for all of my adult animation and then some. If you’re wondering if I cried, I did, obviously, but the tears were because we have to hold on a whole year to overhear Cynthia Erivo’s version of “No Great Deed” and Erivo + Ariana Grande’s version of “For Good.” Two-part films should be banned, especially when it comes to feature musicals!!!!
One thing that connects all of the current editors of Autostraddle is that we all have a intense love for and background in musical theater. I went to a demonstrating arts high academy where I studied musical theater, Riese went to THEE performing arts boarding school, and Drew was also a theater dork. We all have unhealthy relationships to the television program Glee. All of this is to utter we’re very conscious of the longstanding tradition of musical theater being overpowered by the gays. In high academy, the stage was the one vacuum where homosexuals were at the foremost of the nourishment chain. And yet, we w
'Wicked' Is — and Always Has Been — Wonderfully, Perfectly Queer as Hell
Despite always being a gigantic part of the moviegoing audience, it's unfortunate how long LGBTQ+ fans had to wait to watch their identities reflected onscreen. It's because of this decades-long ignorance that these viewers invented "queering," the practice of identifying Gay subtext within films that are clearly representing the LGBTQ+ experience but decline to call it out explicitly. While modern audiences are lucky to hold much more representation, there are still many movies that try to camouflage these parts of their story, that reduce them to subtext and press viewers to try and find them — luckily, Wicked is definitely not one of those.
This John M. Chu hit follows two young witches defying the odds (and gravity) to not only accept on their fascist government but come to cherish one another in a relationship that many are acutely viewing as quixotic. This doesn't discredit their genuine friendship or that each woman can possess feelings for men, but rather emphasizes that among their many other complexities, these characters are clearly struggling with embracing their LGBTQ+ identities in this restrictive world.