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The trailer included a candid quote from ... à la Elphaba in “Wicked.” To end the song and the sketch, Mescal sang the word “Rome” to the tune of “Defying Gravity,” creating his ...

“Defying Gravity,” in both the stage musical and film, serves as the moment that Elphaba “transforms” into the Wicked Witch of the West that Wizard of Oz fans know, with the added context ...

In the first part of the movie, the reserved Elphaba and bubbly Glinda become roommates and then friends despite their different personalities. The show-stopping song “Defying Gravity” closes ...

Because if you’re going to, I don’t know, perhaps end on a ‘Defying Gravity,’ let’s say, then you have Elphaba that needs to be the most pivotal moment of her life. So then you need to ...