‘Wicked’ Book vs. Musical: Fans Say How They’re Different

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‘Wicked’ Book vs. Musical: Fans Say How They’re Different
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Jeff Goldblum joins TODAY to chat about playing the wizard in the highly anticipated film, “Wicked.” He also shares insights about the intricate details put into the movie’s grand set design and opens up about his experience bringing his kids to the set of the film.

It didn’t take long for BookToker Asia Lin to understand that “Wicked,” the book by Gregory Maguire, would be nothing like the musical she had first seen months earlier. “It was the first page,” Lin tells TODAY.com, recalling a scene in which Dorothy and her companions discuss a rumor that Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, is intersex. “I was like, ‘Wait. Hold on. This was not in the musical at all.

Kieffer’s series goes into all the graphic scenes she wasn’t expecting — like the Clock of the Time Dragon’s puppet show or the Philosophy Club scenes, which have become shorthand for the book’s surprising sexual detours. Among “Wicked” fans, the book’s content is divisive. Kieffer, on her end, said that the sexual content “muddles the plot.

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