This checklist consists of spoilers for Depraved Half II.Since its launch, Depraved has rapidly grow to be one of the vital standard musical movies on the planet, making a newfound public curiosity in each the unique stage musical and The Wizard of Oz. Whereas the 2 are separated by differing supply supplies, creative liberties, an 85-year launch hole, and are owned by two separate studios, they’re completely related by way of their occasions and characters. A sure younger lady from Kansas performs a task in each tales, in fact, but is simply seen in silhouette in each the Depraved stage manufacturing and the primary film. Nonetheless, the remainder of her associates and enemies within the unique story have vital roles to play sooner or later, and we’re launched to all of them within the first film.
Whereas Depraved is all about displaying the origins of each the Depraved Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda the Good Witch (Ariana Grande-Butera), it additionally reveals how the opposite most well-known residents of Ozcame to be. Because the first Depraved film solely adapts the present’s first act, we solely get glimpses and nods, however within the upcoming sequel, we’ll get much more detailed explanations of who they grow to be– they usually have far darker origins than one would count on for a light-hearted musical. Evidently, spoilers for the second act of the Depraved musical will comply with.
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8 Chistery/Nikko
Portrayed by Robin Guiver
Whereas the 2 have totally different names in each variations, one particular flying monkey companion for the Depraved Witch has been featured in each the 1939 movie and the musical. Nikko (Pat Walshe) within the unique film is an interchangeable flying monkey who appears to have a particular attachment to the Depraved Witch (or simply any individual for her to speak to about her evil plans). However within the musical and film model of Depraved, Chistery (Robin Guiver) is given refined but unmistakable character.
Launched as the pinnacle of the Wizard’s (Jeff Goldblum) emerald guard, he’s the primary full-grown named animal within the movie who doesn’t converse. He’s quietly well mannered to Elphaba and Glinda, but appears confused by the Wizard’s comment about how he seems on the birds each morning. When Elphaba unwittingly casts a levitation spell from the Grimmerie, he and his fellow monkeys out of the blue and painfully develop massive wings out of their backs. Whereas initially ordered to assault the lady who remodeled them, the second act of the musical reveals the flying monkeys becoming a member of Elphaba’s facet– and Chistery will get the hopeful trace he’ll converse eventually.
7 Brr/The Cowardly Lion
Portrayed by CGI
Maybe probably the most beloved member of Dorothy’s (Judy Garland) companions within the traditional story is the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr). Initially appearing as a giant, menacing beast, he rapidly reveals his true pussycat colours. Discovering his braveness alongside their journey, his cowardly makes an attempt to run from the slightest downside kind a lot of the MGM movie’s comedy. However in Depraved, we see why he turned such a coward to start with. Following Physician Dillamond’s (Peter Dinklage) compelled departure, Shiz’s new historical past professor, Nikidik (Colin Michael Carmichael), unveils a brand new invention by no means seen in Ozbefore: a cage with a lion cub inside.
Regardless of the professor’s assertion that he’s simply pleased to be there, it’s clear he’s terrified. Upon the professor’s declaration that when put in a cage, the animal won’t ever study to talk, Elphaba and Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey) promptly set him free into the woods of Oz. Whereas not taking part in as massive a task within the narrative as the remainder of Dorothy’s companions, the origin of the Lion, named Brr within the Gregory Maguire novels, nonetheless reminds the viewers of the foundation of what Elphaba is preventing for.
6 Nessarose Thropp/The Depraved Witch of the East
Portrayed by Marissa Bode
In each the unique Wizard of Oz ebook and the 1939 traditional, the one a part of the Depraved Witch of the East we see is her two lifeless legs protruding from beneath Dorothy’s home, nonetheless sporting her ruby slippers. The Munchkins have fun her demise as if it’s already grow to be a nationwide vacation, so we will inform she wasn’t precisely a sort ruler to them. In Depraved, we see the witch, formally named Nessarose (Marissa Bode), was a much more complicated determine than initially thought.
Questionable measures taken by her father (Andy Nyman) to make sure she wouldn’t grow to be inexperienced like her older sister led to her being born with out the usage of her legs. Enhancing on the musical’s depiction of the character, she is proven to be overprotected and coddled by these round her, even when she yearns desperately for independence. Individuals deal with her as tragic and bathe her with undesirable pity, so it’s a welcome change for her when Boq (Ethan Slater) types a real friendship together with her and makes it clear he doesn’t really feel sorry for her. Nonetheless, the second act of the musical reveals Nessarose’s makes an attempt to maintain that relationship going will lead to tragic penalties for Boq (and herself winding up crushed beneath a home).
5 Boq Woodsman/The Tin Man
Portrayed by Ethan Slater
Boq Woodsman is a Munchkin boy who falls in love with Glinda the minute she units foot on campus at Shiz. Whereas he’s hopelessly out of his league, he stays persistent in making an attempt to win her affection. This leads Glinda to set Boq up with Nessarose for the dance on the Ozdust Ballroom so she will go along with Fiyero. There are a number of moments all through the movie that present Boq genuinely likes Nessarose as a good friend, but she appears to suppose there’s extra beneath the floor than only a friendship.
His presence would not appear to have an effect on the story a lot. Nonetheless, along with his occasional leaning poses, offhand feedback about crying rather a lot, and a crimson handkerchief put subsequent to his coronary heart, these accustomed to the story will acknowledge these nods to his eventual destiny because the Tin Man (Jack Haley). Boq and Nessarose’s relationship will solely deteriorate additional, and her want to have his coronary heart will result in him having none in any respect. Boq will gladly serve the Wizard if it means getting a coronary heart again– and getting revenge on the witches who took it away.
4 Fiyero Tigelaar/The Scarecrow
Portrayed by Jonathan Bailey
When Fiyero Tigelaar first arrives at Shiz College, he’s a fun-loving, seemingly carefree particular person who believes in having time and nothing else. However after he and Elphaba save the lion cub from the cage, he begins pondering extra wholeheartedly about his place in life. From all of the references to being brainless and Elphaba’s insult to “get stuffed”, it will likely be no shock to find finally he’ll remodel the primary of Dorothy’s associates in Oz: the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger).
We get a glimpse of who he’ll grow to be when he’s strolling with Dorothy and firm on the movie’s starting, however the circumstances behind his transformation might be proven within the second movie. Over the course of the musical’s second act, Fiyero turns into captain of the Emerald Guard to search out Elphaba, defects to affix her, and is finally nearly overwhelmed to demise by his former troopers, solely saved due to a magic spell Elphaba conjured. Fiyero turns into key to the decision of the plot, serving to in his personal solution to inadvertently finish the Wizard’s rule.
3 Oscar Diggs/The Great Wizard of Oz
Portrayed by Jeff Goldblum
Within the unique Wizard of Oz ebook and film, the Wizard (Frank Morgan) is a captivating, loveable parental determine who could use deceit, however in the end means nicely and dispenses knowledge and presents to all who come to him. However we shouldn’t overlook that he guidelines Ozbehind a curtain and sends a toddler to kill a witch understanding she may not be capable of come again. These already aren’t probably the most vituous traits, however in Depraved, the Wizard is given a radically totally different, and much more menacing persona.
Whereas remaining charming, humorous, and by no means immediately merciless to our leads, he’s additionally a con artist who fooled a complete nation into believing he was their solely hope of saving them from a perceived menace, stripped the rights of a marginalized neighborhood to maintain himself in energy, and can do something to maintain himself in that place. Figuring out the total story of the musical, nonetheless, he stays a deeply human determine– particularly when he discovers the tragic fact of his relationship with Elphaba.
2 Glinda The Good Witch of the North/Galinda Upland
Portrayed by Ariana Grande-Butera
Glinda the Witch of the North (Billie Burke) is the polar reverse of the Depraved Witch: variety, tender, pink and at all times wanting to assist our hero alongside her journey down the yellow brick street (even when her strategies have grow to be seen by fashionable audiences as questionable). Whereas they by no means meet within the ebook, they share one scene collectively in Munchkinland, and it is easy to inform the 2 have some historical past. The true story of Depraved begins when we see the place the 2 met– as school roommates.
Galinda Upland is a preppy, standard lady who tasks an aura of magnificence and goodness, but behind the facade is a woman who’s spoiled, condescending, and jealous of Elphaba having Madame Morrible’s (Michelle Yeoh) favoritism. When a prank goes too far, Galinda realizes her misjudgment. Whereas she by no means totally lets go of her ego, she and Elphaba grow to be finest associates and journey to the Emerald Metropolis collectively. Because the movie ends, we see that their selections will lead them down two essentially totally different paths. The start of the musical’s second act reveals Glinda changing into probably the most beloved particular person in Ozwhereas questioning what it price to get there.
1 The Depraved Witch of the West/Elphaba Thropp
Portrayed by Cynthia Erivo
The Depraved Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) is probably the most well-known villain in film historical past, and if the occasions of Depraved are to be believed, one of the vital tragically misunderstood characters in all fiction. Born with inexperienced pores and skin and mysterious powers, Elphaba Thropp had a childhood full of scorn, ridicule, and hatred, with solely her bear nanny Dulcibear (Sharon D. Clarke) and tales of the wizard offering love and hope for the longer term.
Throughout her time at Shiz, she grows out of her shell, finds potential love, and is instructed for the primary time that she has worth past what different individuals suppose she is. Upon realizing the Wizard’s true nature, she turns into probably the most highly effective being in Oz (in addition to its biggest enemy). Depraved Half II will present how her resolution to declare battle on the Wizard has long-lasting penalties, each great and devastating, that may depart her residence modified for good, particularly when a younger farmgirl drops into Ozand takes her not too long ago deceased sister’s footwear.
