Good morning to everyone whose entire personality is now all things Wicked: we need to discuss Dorothy Gale. Specifically, whether or not the iconic Wizard of Oz character will show up in Wicked Part 2.
Audiences got a small glimpse at Dorothy walking up the yellow brick road with the Tin Man, the Lion, and the Scarecrow during the opening moments of Wicked — but she has a much larger presence in part two.
As anyone who's seen the Wizard of Oz knows, Dorothy is responsible for "melting" the Wicked Witch of the West, aka Elphaba. But will we actually see her? And if so, whomst has been cast to play her?
Director Jon Chu spoke to Variety about Dorothy's presence in the first film, saying “The Wizard of Oz is potentially a dream. It’s a world where there are no real stakes. Knowing that Elphaba and Glinda live in a world of real stakes, we had to reestablish with the audience that this was real.
"So we dropped everyone into the crime scene, maybe the most famous crime scene ever in cinema and literature, of the iconic hat in the puddle. There are all these little clues before we see the full landscape of Oz. It’s this living, breathing place with real cultures, so we immediately establish this is not a dream world. After we go somewhere over the rainbow, we see that those four iconic characters exist in this real world. And we will revisit those characters in movie two."
As for how much of Dorothy we'll actually see, Chu said "In the show, Dorothy is around. They have to intersect, and you can only tease it so much. I won’t say whether she’s a character, necessarily, in movie two. There’s a part of me that wants everyone’s Dorothy to be the whatever Dorothy they want. And yet, there is interaction and some crossover. So I’ll leave that up to Part Two."
Noted!
