Who Does Stephen Schwartz Play in Wicked?
The line was originally Who rang that bell?
Witches and wizards and writers, oh my!
Image by Zanda Rice
“I was sick to my stomach.She began.
“It’s my first time reading the Wicked movie script.
I finish and I text Jon: ‘c’mon, call me’.
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He was like, ‘Are you ok?’
I said, ‘I don’t think I am.
We need to talk.’
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He calls me and I was like, ‘We can’t do that.
It has to be ‘The Wizard will see you now’.
Are you crazy?'”
“Then we call Jon together to address this massive problem.
The first thing on our task list, we literally bombarded him.
I add her into the chat, we both were like’We have to handle this.
It can’t be that.We had to handle it.
I was floored.”
Jon M. Chu spoke about his reasoning for removing the line in aninterview with Variety.
I remember when Ari read that we didnt have the line the Wizard will see you now!
There was a reason for it; they were more progressed in the geography.
Ari was like, I promise you, we have to have it.
So I was like, OK, let me figure it out.
We built it in so there are two entrances now, but it was worth it.
Cutting the line would have done a disservice to the film.
Wickedis now playing in theaters.
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