From Critics at Large: After “Wicked,” What Do We Want from the Musical?

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🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway hit is the latest iteration of a quintessentially American form. Why has the musical endured—and where might it go next?

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0:00.0	Listener supported W.NYC. Studios.
0:11.6	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm Adam Howard, and we have a special treat for you this week, an episode on movie musicals from our friends at critics at large.
0:20.9	That's the New Yorker's Weekly Culture Podcast.
0:23.5	Please enjoy.
0:25.4	I want the note at the end, where it's like, you know, like the air note.
0:31.0	Wow.
0:32.1	I knew it would happen.
0:34.1	He's defying gravity already.
0:37.1	So exciting. So exciting.
0:38.2	This is Critics at Large, a podcast from The New Yorker.
0:48.4	I'm Gnomi Fry.
0:50.2	I'm Vincent Cunningham.
0:51.2	And I'm Alex Schwartz.
0:53.0	Each week on this show, we make sense of what's happening in the culture right now and how we got here.
0:58.2	Critics, brace yourself.
1:00.4	Oh, my goodness.
1:01.3	We are in the eye of the storm.
1:03.7	The holiday movies are coming.
1:04.9	I can't even pause for your laughter.
1:06.3	It's happening right now.
1:07.3	It's happening.
1:07.9	Last week, we did Gladiator, too.
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