Ah! The musical that they seem curiously reluctant to publicise as such!

Recent publicity seems to be dropping the "Part 1" and apparently the trailer features stuff that should really be in a "Part 2", which has led to some confusion.

@M.LeMarchand said:

Ah! The musical that they seem curiously reluctant to publicise as such!

Recent publicity seems to be dropping the "Part 1" and apparently the trailer features stuff that should really be in a "Part 2", which has led to some confusion.

Part One movie (2024): Act One Broadway show.
Part Two movie (2025): Act Two Broadway show.

As the movie has new scenes and will dive deeper into the relationships between the characters - especially between Elphaba and Glinda - the total runtime will be much longer than the Broadway show. While the show - Act One and Act Two - runs 2 hours and 30 minutes, excluding the one 15-minute intermission, part one of the movie runtime is already longer at 2 hours and 40 minutes with no intermission. It is not known yet what the runtime of part two is. I don't expect that many people would want to sit for more than 4 hours in the cinema, so the movie was split into two parts.

I read a theory that the lack of a "Part One" is because recent "Part Ones" have underperformed whilst "Dune" managed to make bank by not calling attention to it's being the first part.

Not seen it, but apparently a recent official video of "Wicked" finally shows the cast of a musical actually singing!

@M.LeMarchand said:

I read a theory that the lack of a "Part One" is because recent "Part Ones" have underperformed whilst "Dune" managed to make bank by not calling attention to it's being the first part.

When part one of the musical is a success, you can expect to sell at least as many tickets for part two, while the production budget would stay low.

Not seen it, but apparently a recent official video of "Wicked" finally shows the cast of a musical actually singing!

Well, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are top-notch professional singers, so why wouldn't they be actually singing? I guess it is a mix with pre-recorded vocals in some scenes, and singing live on the set in others. It doesn't mean that there won't be any changes in the post-production sound mixing. Let's hope that it still has that raw, natural sound and isn't corrected too much to sound too polished and auto-tuned.

@wonder2wonder said:

Well, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are top-notch professional singers, so why wouldn't they be actually singing? I guess it is a mix with pre-recorded vocals in some scenes, and singing live on the set in others. It doesn't mean that there won't be any changes in the post-production sound mixing. Let's hope that it still has that raw, natural sound and isn't corrected too much to sound too polished and auto-tuned.

Indeed, but it took numerous trailers before they actually showed people singing.

@M.LeMarchand said:

@wonder2wonder said:

Well, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are top-notch professional singers, so why wouldn't they be actually singing? I guess it is a mix with pre-recorded vocals in some scenes, and singing live on the set in others. It doesn't mean that there won't be any changes in the post-production sound mixing. Let's hope that it still has that raw, natural sound and isn't corrected too much to sound too polished and auto-tuned.

Indeed, but it took numerous trailers before they actually showed people singing.

Yes, the marketing is now going at full steam to dispel any doubt that it is not live vocals. Fans of Ariana and Cynthia, and musical fans overall, can now rest assured that they will see live singing in the musical.

Cynthia seems to be doing her best to lose fans with her complaint about some fan art that edited the movie poster to more resemble the "theatre" one and making unkind remarks about the suitanility other actors who auditioned for the movie.

Seems like Mattel's "Wicked" dolls are living up to the name (or at least "naughty"): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo

@M.LeMarchand said:

Seems like Mattel's "Wicked" dolls are living up to the name (or at least "naughty"): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo

Mattel is now being sued. There is a class action lawsuit seeking $5 million (£3.94 million) in damages for anyone in the USA who bought the dolls with the error on their packaging. So if this amount is awarded, there are a lot of Americans who will become instant millionairs, and it could get Mattel into a lot of financial problems.

@wonder2wonder said:

@M.LeMarchand said:

Seems like Mattel's "Wicked" dolls are living up to the name (or at least "naughty"): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo

Mattel is now being sued. There is a class action lawsuit seeking $5 million (£3.94 million) in damages for anyone in the USA who bought the dolls with the error on their packaging. So if this amount is awarded, there are a lot of Americans who will become instant millionairs, and it could get Mattel into a lot of financial problems.

$5m each? How many people actually went to the site and if they did, how does (possibly) seeing some "adult" material cause $5m of psychological damage? Maybe I should click on a link to P0rnHub in a search result and see if I too can become a millionaire? Less flippantly, I'd advise people who want to stay p0rn free not to turn "safe search" off when doing an image search for actresses, particularly in DuckDuckGo. I have occasionally been presented with some pretty graphic images featuring actresses with similar names who, let's just say, are unlikely to ever win an Oscar.

@M.LeMarchand said:

@wonder2wonder said:

@M.LeMarchand said:

Seems like Mattel's "Wicked" dolls are living up to the name (or at least "naughty"): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo

Mattel is now being sued. There is a class action lawsuit seeking $5 million (£3.94 million) in damages for anyone in the USA who bought the dolls with the error on their packaging. So if this amount is awarded, there are a lot of Americans who will become instant millionairs, and it could get Mattel into a lot of financial problems.

$5m each? How many people actually went to the site and if they did, how does (possibly) seeing some "adult" material cause $5m of psychological damage? Maybe I should click on a link to P0rnHub in a search result and see if I too can become a millionaire? Less flippantly, I'd advise people who want to stay p0rn free not to turn "safe search" off when doing an image search for actresses, particularly in DuckDuckGo. I have occasionally been presented with some pretty graphic images featuring actresses with similar names who, let's just say, are unlikely to ever win an Oscar.

People in the United States can be prudes.

@Adammm said:

@M.LeMarchand said:

@wonder2wonder said:

@M.LeMarchand said:

Seems like Mattel's "Wicked" dolls are living up to the name (or at least "naughty"): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo

Mattel is now being sued. There is a class action lawsuit seeking $5 million (£3.94 million) in damages for anyone in the USA who bought the dolls with the error on their packaging. So if this amount is awarded, there are a lot of Americans who will become instant millionairs, and it could get Mattel into a lot of financial problems.

$5m each? How many people actually went to the site and if they did, how does (possibly) seeing some "adult" material cause $5m of psychological damage? Maybe I should click on a link to P0rnHub in a search result and see if I too can become a millionaire? Less flippantly, I'd advise people who want to stay p0rn free not to turn "safe search" off when doing an image search for actresses, particularly in DuckDuckGo. I have occasionally been presented with some pretty graphic images featuring actresses with similar names who, let's just say, are unlikely to ever win an Oscar.

People in the United States can be prudes.

No one actually seems to have actually visited the site. The site doesn't actually have nudity in it that can be accessed outside of the paywall. It's pretty pg-13 at the most if you don't use your credit card.

@Innovator said:

@Adammm said:

@M.LeMarchand said:

@wonder2wonder said:

@M.LeMarchand said:

Seems like Mattel's "Wicked" dolls are living up to the name (or at least "naughty"): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo

Mattel is now being sued. There is a class action lawsuit seeking $5 million (£3.94 million) in damages for anyone in the USA who bought the dolls with the error on their packaging. So if this amount is awarded, there are a lot of Americans who will become instant millionairs, and it could get Mattel into a lot of financial problems.

$5m each? How many people actually went to the site and if they did, how does (possibly) seeing some "adult" material cause $5m of psychological damage? Maybe I should click on a link to P0rnHub in a search result and see if I too can become a millionaire? Less flippantly, I'd advise people who want to stay p0rn free not to turn "safe search" off when doing an image search for actresses, particularly in DuckDuckGo. I have occasionally been presented with some pretty graphic images featuring actresses with similar names who, let's just say, are unlikely to ever win an Oscar.

People in the United States can be prudes.

No one actually seems to have actually visited the site. The site doesn't actually have nudity in it that can be accessed outside of the paywall. It's pretty pg-13 at the most if you don't use your credit card.

Seems like a frivolous lawsuit to me, but Mattel will probably settle out of court just to save the expense of going to court.

For anyone hoping to get rich off being traumatized, a class action suit aint the ticket. I don't know the details of this suit, but a couple years ago there was a class action suit against Apple that I was notified I'd get a payment for. Something to do with iphone 10 breaking (which mine did). The way a class action suit works is the lawyers grab the lump and take their cut which is customarily 2/3. The remaining 1/3 is divided amongst EVERYONE WHO WANTS A PAYOUT. So in my case, even though Apple paid out a few million, I got a whopping $2.19.

So basically it's a way for lawyers to get richer and any loss that Mattel might make gets passed on to the customer as higher prices?

@M.LeMarchand said:

So basically it's a way for lawyers to get richer and any loss that Mattel might make gets passed on to the customer as higher prices?

Yup :/

But I’m sure this isn’t Mattel’s first rodeo. (A manufacturer of children’s toys? Every time some kid eats a Hungry Hungry Hippos marble they probably get sued!) So they probably have a routine ready to go.

If I were them, I’d hoard all the remaining misprint dolls, wait a couple years, then sell ‘em on ebay. Misprints & duds are gold on the collectors market 🤔