When Is Wicked Part 2 Coming Out? Here’s Everything We Know About the Sequel So Far

Still, it won’t be the full 180 of, say, Into The Woods. “There is lots of lightness in the movie,” Chu continued. “There’s a lot of fun parts. We’ve not forgotten about that, but there’s a matureness and a nuance to it that we earn from the first movie. The second movie really gets to play with [that maturity].”

Who is in the Wicked part two cast?

The cast we know and love from part one will be appearing, including Cynthia Erivo (Elphaba), Ariana Grande (Glinda), Michelle Yeoh (Madame Morrible), Jeff Goldblum (the Wizard of Oz), Jonathan Bailey (Fiyero), Ethan Slater (Boq), Marissa Bode (Nessarose), Peter Dinklage (voice of Doctor Dillamond), Bowen Yang, and Bronwyn James.

There were also cameos from some of the stage show’s stars and creative team, and some of us are maybe hoping for more of that in For Good. Is a Norbert Leo Butz role too much to ask for? Or Joel Grey?

What about Dorothy?

Well, Chu was very, very vague about whether we’ll meet her at all. He told Variety, “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,” which I disagree with (TWoO has stakes!), but okay. In the first part, we did glimpse Dorothy and her friends from behind during the opening (most of Wicked is, technically, a flashback), and Chu says we’ll check back in with the gang.

“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,” Chu said. “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.”

“In the show, Dorothy is around,” he added. “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.” Hmm!