Wicked Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/wicked/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:08:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Wicked Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/wicked/ 32 32 ‘Wicked: For Good’ Review: It isn’t easy being green https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/21/wicked-for-good-review-it-isnt-easy-being-green/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:08:18 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042703 A year and a few hundred million dollars later, John M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked, itself an adaptation of the Gregory Maguire novel of the same name, which in turn was a revisionist reinterpretation of characters from The Wizard of Oz (both L. Frank Baum’s children’s fable and the 1939 movie), has come to its curtain call. Somehow, it’s even more culturally omnipresent than it was last time around — brand collabs, tie-in merchandise, (apparently decent-tasting) Skittles […]

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]]> V3 Weekend: Interpol, Sean Sullivan, ‘Wicked’ vs. ‘Gladiator II’ https://vanyaland.com/2024/11/27/v3-weekend-interpol-sean-sullivan-wicked-vs-gladiator-ii/ Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:18:47 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040178 Editor’s Note: Welcome to V3 Weekend, Vanyaland‘s guide to help you sort out your weekend entertainment with curated selections and recommendations across our three pillars of Music, Comedy, and Film/TV. It’s what you should know about, where you need to be, and where you’ll be going, with us riding shotgun along the way. Music: Interpol at Roadrunner Out of all the acts that sprouted from the early aughts New York City indie rock resurgence, Interpol probably came the closest to the power of their debut […]

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]]> ‘Wicked’ Review: Well, the fans are gonna love it https://vanyaland.com/2024/11/22/wicked-review-well-the-fans-are-gonna-love-it/ Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:24:46 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040157 Before I go deep as to why I’m not too fond of this on principle, I’d like to go ahead and address Wicked fans to give them the information they’re looking for up top: Jon M. Chu has made an adaptation you’ll probably enjoy quite a bit. This is, of course, Wicked: Part One, which extends the act-break of the Stephen Schwartz-composed musical from 15 minutes to a full year – a good choice, given that the big climax makes […]

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]]> Ding-dong, the wicked ‘Wicked’ trailer is here https://vanyaland.com/2024/05/15/ding-dong-the-wicked-wicked-trailer-is-here/ Wed, 15 May 2024 16:15:14 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10038124 You know what, we’ve spent way too long complaining about Lucasfilm recently, so we were delightfully surprised when a trailer for Wicket, which we’re assuming is about everybody’s favorite Ewok — played by Warwick Davis, no less — showed up in our inbox on Wednesday morning. Ewoks have gotten a lot of unnecessary shit over the years, and we’re genuinely happy that someone’s finally doing something with them. Will it be a remake of the Ewoks TV show from the […]

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