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The story of how a green-skinned woman framed by the Wizard of Oz becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. It is an utterly relatable experience, one that the film deepens by embracing the Queer feelings at its center to show that, just like its characters, it is so proud of the things that some people will say it should despise.

By Kelcie Mattson. Elphaba's story of coming to love the things about herself that others say she should hate is one that many Queer people experience when they first come out. Director Jon M. Frank Baum. While many viewers are learning about the wonders of Wicked through the film adaptation, longtime fans of the project have had more than twenty years with this entrancing story of magic and mayhem.

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Wicked has always been beloved in the LGBTQ+ community, which I put down to its impressive soundtrack, themes of being an outsider, and undeniably eccentric characters. While fans have resonated with both characters, it's Elphaba's arc that has drawn so many in with her heartbreakingly relatable experience of feeling judged by everyone for simply being seen as different.

Main Genre Musical. Now, as Out always asks, how gay is it? The Queer roots of Wicked run deep, starting with the man who initially wrote the novel it's based onGregory Maguirebeing openly gay himself and purposefully making the sexualities of his main characters ambiguous.

Not only Grande, Erivo, and the man who created this plot, but the musical's most famous Galinda, Kristin Chenowethhas used the film's recent release to state that she also saw her character's feelings as deeply romantic. The witches are discovering aspects of their society and themselves that have been barred from them for so long, with Galinda being threatened by social norms to ignore them or face the vitriol that Elphaba has always experienced for being noticeably different.

Cast See All. Cynthia Erivo. Nov 24, Release Date November 22, Runtime Minutes. To paraphrase Jennifer Garner in Love, Simon: “You get to exhale now, gays.” Wicked is here, and it’s still very, very queer. While modern audiences are lucky to have much more representation, there are still many movies that try to hide these parts of their story, that reduce them to subtext and push viewers to try and find them — wicked, Wicked is definitely not one of those.

It follows the peppy Galinda Ariana Grande and the fierce, green-skinned Elphaba Cynthia Erivotwo young women who are forced to room together at Shiz University in the wonderful land of Oz. While the film ends gay this pair becoming best friends and Elphaba finding her true power, it definitely doesn't start the way; fans watch as Elphaba is discriminated against her entire life for her skin color and ability to wield magic, facing harmful misconceptions that Galinda initially adopts before learning more about her roommate.

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Showcased in the song "What is this Feeling" where the women sing about how they hate each other, yet are irresistibly transfixed by one another — a setup that has created some of the best romantic comedies — the romantic tension is so evident that even Grande herself has called out her character for being "a little in the closet.

The first of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical. Sign in now. The central story of Wicked is and always has been a love story between its two female leads. Ariana Grande. This John M. Chu hit follows two young witches defying the odds and gravity to not only take on their fascist government but come to love one another in a relationship that many are acutely viewing as romantic.