‘Wicked: Part I’ Starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-Butera

Released November 22, 2024, in the United States

Director: Jon M. Chu
Screenplay: Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox
Based on Wicked by Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Holzman
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande-Butera, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum
Genre: Musical, fantasy
Rating: PG
Run time: 2 hours 40 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English

Jon Chu’s ‘Wicked: Part I’ covers the musical's first act in the Land of Oz before Dorothy Gale's arrival from Kansas and how Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her friendship with her classmate Galinda, the future Glinda the Good develops over time.

The additional cast are young Elphaba (Karis Musongole); Galinda Upland (Ariana Grande-Butera), a popular young woman who becomes Glinda the Good; Fiyero Tigelaar (Jonathan Bailey), a prince from Winkie Country who meets Elphaba and Glinda at school; Boq Woodsman (Ethan Slater), a Munchkin in love with Glinda; Pfannee (Bowen Yang), one of Glinda's college friends; Nessarose Thropp (Marissa Bode) Elphaba's paraplegic younger sister; young Nessarose (Cesily Collette Taylor); Dr. Dillamond (as the voice of Peter Dinklage ), a talking Goat and history professor at Shiz University, Dr. Dillamond (movement artist Luisa Guerrerio); Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh ), the Dean of Sorcery at Shiz University; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum); Governor Thropp (Andy Nyman ), Elphaba and Nessarose's father and the Governor of Munchkinland; Mrs. Thropp  (Courtney-Mae Briggs) , Elphaba and Nessarose's mother, who dies after giving birth to Nessarose; Miss Coddle (Keala Settle), the headmistress of Shiz University, Avaric (Aaron Teoh), Fiyero's friend.