YetWickedleft Elphaba at odds with these creatures.

How Does Elphaba Gain the Flying Monkeys' Allegiance in the Musical?

This should have been the greatest movie musical of all time.

Elphaba, played by actor Cynthia Erivo, puts her hand to her face gracefully while one of the Ozian monkey guards sits behind her.

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And Act 2 revealswhere the story will go inWicked: For Good.

She sees the way the Wizard treats them and wants to protect them from him.

It’s telling that when they are given freedom, they choose to help Elphaba.

Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) are chased by flying monkeys in ‘Wicked’

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The first of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.

Glinda, played by actor Ariana Grande, stands among pink trees while alongside her is Christine Daae, played by actor Emmy Rossum, with candles in the background.

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The story of how a green-skinned woman framed by the Wizard of Oz becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. The first of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.

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