Wicked. Very popular musical. Insanely popular musico. You're going to say, like, wait,

why are you doing movie reviews now? Answer is not really. Um, let's get started.

Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascentra Presents. One of the reasons why I have

this hot take is because I really like L. Frank Baum's original The Wonderful Wizard of Us.

I love the origin story of how he came

up with these stories. I love his dedication, who he dedicated the books to. I love how he wrote

about how the Tin Woodsman came to be the Tin Woodsman. He actually was originally a normal man,

a woodcutter, and he was in love with a munchkin maiden and this witch uh cursed his axe

and he just this whole story. It's always moves me,

touches my heart in a deep way. When Wicked came out, I was like, wait a second, I have some

issues here. Now, what's Wicked? Wicked is basically a retelling of the origin story of the Wicked

witch of the West and of the Good Witch Glenda. And basically goes back and says, here's the

real story of Glenda. Here's the real story of the Wicked Witch of the good witch Glenda. And basically goes back and says, here's the real story of Glenda.

Here's the real story of the Wicked Witch of the West,

who was named Elphaba in the book Wicked.

What do I like about the musical?

I really like the music.

If you go see the movie, I think the music is great.

Some of the lyrics are very, very clever and really creative.

I love it. The voices of the singers,

of the actresses, especially, in the musical are insane. The visualization, awesome. Here's my

movie review, right? Here I'm the expert. Also, I want to say this. I want to say that you go back

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