thank you for mentioning the incredible moment of when the queen of england died and they opened the show with the usual "GOOD NEWS SHES DEAD". one of my favourite musical theatre moments of all time
The comment before the west end show is even funnier when you think about how “ding dong the witch is dead” went number one on the billboard the week Margaret thatcher died. So like there is a precedent here…
wicked's hesitance regarding its political themes, with a vague allusion to wanting things to change without really committing to many specifics, is definitely very authentic to 2000s musicals (and some 2000s TV). avenue Q is the same. i love both wicked and avenue Q, but they're definitely products of their time.
Coming up with actual plans is hard, it's way easier to just go "we should move forward as a society and be more accepting!" Although it turns out that actually lots of people are filled with hate
I really appreciated your comments about Nessarose. Seeing this as an 8 year old girl in a wheelchair was really something, simultaneously the message of being an outcast and learning to love yourself, while also one of the least likeable characters also being in a wheelchair, dependent on her sister, and feeling that people pity rather than love her and becoming twisted and evil, ultimately kinda proving them right. I was also utterly crushed when my parents told me the actress wasn't actually disabled, and that no one could be an actress if they were in a wheelchair. So many disabled characters back then reinforced such harmful stereotypes and truly did so much damage, so I really hope the movie does something positive
@@ashleynorton You mentioned early on that the production hell of the movie reminds you of your own mortality, I think that's what they're talking about
Hello! I have seen this show four times, and once was a no-fly show and ISTG even though I had already seen it twice before, I didn't even notice. The actress D E S T R O Y E D it. I told my brother, who had gone with me that time, and he was surprised, we both felt like nothing was missing.
@@fossilfightersfanforever7243Cynthia Erivo (who is playing Elphaba in the movie versions) threw a fit when a fan edited the poster to look more like the poster for the Broadway show. It included pulling down the brim of her hat to cover her eyes, making her smile, and making the smile red. Cynthia said it was the most offensive thing she’d ever seen and it was erasing her as a woman of color or something.
one of my fav memories as a preteen/early teen is being so obsessed with wicked (it had just come out) that i got my mom to buy me the book and i read it, and it not only had the first sex scenes i was ever exposed to but they were NUMEROUS and FAIRLY GRAPHIC and when my mom told one of her friends that i loved the book/musical her friend was like "YOU LET HER READ THAT???"
27:48 on the lion thing: i actually always interpreted it as them using the lion's cowardice to speak *for* him, since he doesn't even want to be up there with boq, so it could actually be that he doesn't even hate elphaba, he's just too scared to admit it ? but yeah idk i haven't seen the show in a while tbf😭
Completely agree, we never hear from the Lion himself that he wants her dead, we only have Boq's word... and at this point in time he's hardly a rational neutral party 😅
Really appreciate you speaking about the disability aspect of this musical. It's also ironic as like a week or so before we went to see wicked for the first time, my sister became an amputee and was in a wheelchair. We had to give up our good seats as they weren't accessible for her which sucked. But the musical was also VERY overstimulating for both of us (both neurodivergent but hers is more severe) and my sister had to leave during the intermission because it was too much for her. Especially with the wizard face puppet's booming voice. We went into it with little knowledge of wicked (aside from the songs) so it affected us even more since we were caught off guard and weren't prepared for it. It'd be nice if musicals were more accessible and had warnings before the show but idk if that'll change anytime soon. I am glad that she left halfway through though as she was really struggling with her self confidence after suddenly being an amputee and needing a wheelchair, so the sister's turn to evil and not being loved wouldve been really rough for her. But my sister is incredible and has adapted to this change wonderfully. That situation also is another factor in the argument for live recordings of stage shows as she spent a lot of her own money on tickets but couldn't watch it all and the recordings on TH-cam are much less overstimulating.
I'm really sorry you and your sister had to go through that, theartres and cinemas are always an overstimulating nightmare. Though the first time I when to see wicked there was a primary school watching and I noticed that the sound design, vocals and some lights were a lot more toned down than when I went for an evening performance I assumed for the kids. I hope more theartres can do something like that, have two shows a week for those with sensory issues or sm similar
I was fully prepared to just have this video running while I cooked dinner but as soon as you came into frame, I had to stop preparing my chicken Alfredo and give you my undivided attention. You really commanded respect.
This was such an amazing video, you did get through the good bad and the ugly of this show. Nessaroses character is really one of my biggest grips with Wicked. I had problems with mobility since I was a kid which makes acting, something I love very much so difficult to be able to do professionally and I was so upset when i find out the one role for disabled people is one that has never been played by a physically disabled person as well as almost impossible for them to play the part, if theres anything i wish the show (and hopefully the moive) changes its Nessas part in the show
I am from Italy and born in the 90s, so it's safe to say no musical was ever popular when I was a teenager. Somehow I fell in love with Wicked in high school and got to see it in London. I then got my hands on the first book in Italian (the only one translated so far) and after the initial shock... I completely fell in love with it. I then read all the books in English and just fell more in love with everything. Ashley said it well, do not expect the musical and the book to be too related, everything about them comes from very different places. I would also recommend to read the biography of Schwartz, there's a first draft of the Wicked musical storyline, plus lots of notes, and it's really interesting to see how they went from the book to the musical!
thank goodness is quite literally poetry.... because getting your dreams as strange as it seems is a little, well, complicated! there's a kind of a sort of ... cost... theres a couple of things get lost... there are BRIDGES YOU DIDNT KNOW YOU COULD CROSSSS UNTIL YOU CROSSSSS and if that joy! that thrill! doesn't thrill like you think it will! still this perfect finale with the cheers and the ballyoo whoo whooo wouldnt be happier so i couldnt be happier because happy is what happens when all your dreams come true... ISNT IT? like come onnn i think of those lyrics more than almost any others in the world
glinda was such a kristen chenoweth coded character that when i saw wicked for the first time i only knew her from pushing daisies and accurately guessed that she was the original glinda when my mom and i were in the merch line during intermission
Them saying “just two friends” so much makes me shiver at what Good Omens could have been. And the reality that if they never kissed, a large part of that audience would actually genuinely believe they were just “friends” 😭
Re: the book/musical differences, I had the opposite experience when, in college, everyone was talking about the musical and being a reader, I grabbed the novel to see what it was about. After that first chapter my only thought was “they made a musical of this?!” I eventually finished the book, but it was quickly obvious the two works were wildly different!!
The only time I've had the pleasure to see it, it was a no fly show! My friends were so disappointed, mad even, and I was just sobbing from the incredible powerful moment. Cool to know it's a coveted experience 😂
Omg i really thought only our galinda in the dutch production was trying get the dutch elphaba laugh but hearing you say its just... a thing now no matter where made me laugh 😂
First musical I ever saw was Bernadette in Annie get your gun, the second was your favorite musical, Andrew Lloyd Webbers "Cars".. Both me and my mom fell asleep 😬
I have had so much work to get done the last few days and I have been playing your vids because something about you talking about a random AF topic for an hour is really calming
ashley, this video rocks. you clearly care so much about wicked (me too girl i saw it at 13 and i haven’t stopped thinking about it since). my personal favorite glinda has to be megan hilty (god’s gift to earth). you have such insightful things to say about this show. i can’t wait for you to see the movie and i hope you get on the wicked 2 pr list!!!
As someone who's been dying to know more about musical theater for years, I appreciate your videos on musicals! Can't wait to see the movie! Wish it were easier to go and see stage shows live, too 😅Wicked is set to hit the stage in April 2025 where I live, but I just came back from a trip to see another musical live and it took three whole days in total...
somehow you consistently seem to make videos about things completely in my niche and i have to say: THANK YOU. and thank you x2 for the brittney johnson and katie rose clarke appreciation
same life in only seeing the show live once as a kid and having the trajectory of your life changed… my next birthday after going to the tour was wicked themed with pink and green decorations lol (and yes i am still addicted to defying gravity riff videos too. myra ruiz and willemijn verkaik’s final performances make me tear up every time) 🫡
This is everything I needed. I’m still nervous about how the movies are gonna turn out but all the hype around it has sent me right back into my wicked phase that I crawled out of around 8th grade. My partner and I watched a very legal recording of it the other night and now we’ve had the songs stuck in our heads for a week. Thanks Ashley!!💚💗 edit: YES THANK GOODNESS IS MY FAVE it hits me EVERY time
I love that we all lived similar theater kid lives. I found you through your American Girl video and every one since has been stuff that I also tangentially think about
What a let down. I thought the queen dying would prompt a "the wicked Witch is dead joke" on account of Bloody Sunday or the "No Gays in the Palace" rule that stood until 1995, or just because I literally don't know a single person who is pro monarchy
I really enjoyed the portion about Nessa and her disability. It made me think about disability visibility in theater as a whole. When you said Nessa is the only principal character that has a visible disability, I immediately said “No wait, what about Crutchie from Newsies?” But then it had me thinking about how Crutchie himself was portrayed in the show (I’ve never seen the movie, so I have no idea how it was handled there.)
I was so lucky to see the musical on my birthday this year! It was during October so it was especially festive and I genuinely can't wait for the movie I'm so excited (the costumes of this musical are far too beautiful, I'm going to start dressing like an Ozite, if you have the chance to go and they're coming to a city near you, don't hesitate)
Idina Menzel came to my state on her tour and getting to sing some of the Wicked soundtrack (and stuff from her other plays) with her was genuinely one of the most fun things ever
I saw Wicked at the Pantages in Hollywood with Stephanie J. Block as Elphaba in 2005. It was the first musical I ever saw live (and the only one at all before a couple years ago) and it will always have a place in my heart. That being said, if I ever see the film, it will 100% be for Jonathan Bailey, who can do no wrong imo. Edit: I’ve also seen Disneyland rides with the lights on! Do not recommend Space Mountain that way.
cruella isnt a prequel, its an alternate story, in the og cruella is actually evil, in cruella she just allows people to think shes evil, i genuinely love that movie
we NEED Ashley on the PR list for Wicked ASAP! It may be illegal if we dont; i don't make the rules tho; Also THANK YOU for the advocation for wheelchair users!!
Oh my god, I also have a core memory of my mom taking me to see Wicked in 2007 and it also started my love of musical theater 😂 I’m soo excited to see the movie!
OK, this is the video I needed so bad. I never even tried to understand the hype. I’ve never seen wicked and this is my first introduction to it besides the theatrical trailers and I couldn’t have asked for a better first analysis 👏👏
i remember falling in love with the music before knowing the story! we played a medley in my middle school orchestra class and I was enthralled. also maybe i was grateful to not play classical music for once.
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thank you for mentioning the incredible moment of when the queen of england died and they opened the show with the usual "GOOD NEWS SHES DEAD". one of my favourite musical theatre moments of all time
☘☘☘☘☘☘
i waa fortunate enough to be there in person and it may be my favourite moment of my life
Also thank Goose. He was so patient & he looked incredible! ❤
@@rustythorne8785 i'm so jealous
what were they supposed to do? change the show?
So a person kidnaps ONE person years ago and we can never forgive them??? SMH cancel culture
God forbid women have hobbies🙄🙄
And her little dog, too!
Women can't have hobbies anymore.
That doggie was asking for it tho @@darsh8964
the green hands are very onceler-esque
They’re from my old onceler costume 😅
@@ashleynorton NOOOOO say it isn't so
@@ashleynortonshow us the costume, Ashley. onceler tax.
@@ashleynortonyou can't just say this without also showing us the costume lol
The comment before the west end show is even funnier when you think about how “ding dong the witch is dead” went number one on the billboard the week Margaret thatcher died. So like there is a precedent here…
When I heard Kissinger had finally run out of his soul reserves, my first reaction was to search Google for the song
wicked's hesitance regarding its political themes, with a vague allusion to wanting things to change without really committing to many specifics, is definitely very authentic to 2000s musicals (and some 2000s TV). avenue Q is the same. i love both wicked and avenue Q, but they're definitely products of their time.
We need to come up with a term for that. Paper liberalism?
Also, RENT.
2000s politics too. Hope and Change
Coming up with actual plans is hard, it's way easier to just go "we should move forward as a society and be more accepting!"
Although it turns out that actually lots of people are filled with hate
I personally lean towards "passive progressive" which I first heard on RLM@@warlordofbritannia
I really appreciated your comments about Nessarose. Seeing this as an 8 year old girl in a wheelchair was really something, simultaneously the message of being an outcast and learning to love yourself, while also one of the least likeable characters also being in a wheelchair, dependent on her sister, and feeling that people pity rather than love her and becoming twisted and evil, ultimately kinda proving them right. I was also utterly crushed when my parents told me the actress wasn't actually disabled, and that no one could be an actress if they were in a wheelchair. So many disabled characters back then reinforced such harmful stereotypes and truly did so much damage, so I really hope the movie does something positive
I love you please don’t die
do you know something i don't??
@@ashleynortonThe green dye Ashely, the dye.....
@@ashleynorton You mentioned early on that the production hell of the movie reminds you of your own mortality, I think that's what they're talking about
i have jaundice so it's really nice to see more representation
grrrrrlmao
Hello! I have seen this show four times, and once was a no-fly show and ISTG even though I had already seen it twice before, I didn't even notice. The actress D E S T R O Y E D it. I told my brother, who had gone with me that time, and he was surprised, we both felt like nothing was missing.
Lived my dream 🥲
I need Ashley's summary/analysis of every single musical from now until eternity. Thank you in advance ☺️
Please
Thanks for showing your eyes during this video. I wouldn’t be able to tell what you were trying to convey otherwise
They will never silence her
Staring down the barrel of the camera
Bro I love this meme 💀
@@Tusisvrivhingi don't get it
@@fossilfightersfanforever7243Cynthia Erivo (who is playing Elphaba in the movie versions) threw a fit when a fan edited the poster to look more like the poster for the Broadway show. It included pulling down the brim of her hat to cover her eyes, making her smile, and making the smile red. Cynthia said it was the most offensive thing she’d ever seen and it was erasing her as a woman of color or something.
My first time seeing Wicked was a no fly show! I was very confused when I saw it again years later and she flew.
one of my fav memories as a preteen/early teen is being so obsessed with wicked (it had just come out) that i got my mom to buy me the book and i read it, and it not only had the first sex scenes i was ever exposed to but they were NUMEROUS and FAIRLY GRAPHIC and when my mom told one of her friends that i loved the book/musical her friend was like "YOU LET HER READ THAT???"
So nothing is an original experience 😂
27:48 on the lion thing: i actually always interpreted it as them using the lion's cowardice to speak *for* him, since he doesn't even want to be up there with boq, so it could actually be that he doesn't even hate elphaba, he's just too scared to admit it ? but yeah idk i haven't seen the show in a while tbf😭
Completely agree, we never hear from the Lion himself that he wants her dead, we only have Boq's word... and at this point in time he's hardly a rational neutral party 😅
Really appreciate you speaking about the disability aspect of this musical. It's also ironic as like a week or so before we went to see wicked for the first time, my sister became an amputee and was in a wheelchair. We had to give up our good seats as they weren't accessible for her which sucked. But the musical was also VERY overstimulating for both of us (both neurodivergent but hers is more severe) and my sister had to leave during the intermission because it was too much for her. Especially with the wizard face puppet's booming voice. We went into it with little knowledge of wicked (aside from the songs) so it affected us even more since we were caught off guard and weren't prepared for it. It'd be nice if musicals were more accessible and had warnings before the show but idk if that'll change anytime soon.
I am glad that she left halfway through though as she was really struggling with her self confidence after suddenly being an amputee and needing a wheelchair, so the sister's turn to evil and not being loved wouldve been really rough for her. But my sister is incredible and has adapted to this change wonderfully.
That situation also is another factor in the argument for live recordings of stage shows as she spent a lot of her own money on tickets but couldn't watch it all and the recordings on TH-cam are much less overstimulating.
You sound like an amazing sibling. I just wanted to say that
I'm really sorry you and your sister had to go through that, theartres and cinemas are always an overstimulating nightmare. Though the first time I when to see wicked there was a primary school watching and I noticed that the sound design, vocals and some lights were a lot more toned down than when I went for an evening performance I assumed for the kids. I hope more theartres can do something like that, have two shows a week for those with sensory issues or sm similar
"happy is what happens when all your dreams come true...isn't it?" that hit bro
Ilysm for not transitioning to a betterhelp ad at 2:39
I was fully prepared to just have this video running while I cooked dinner but as soon as you came into frame, I had to stop preparing my chicken Alfredo and give you my undivided attention.
You really commanded respect.
Expected her to pull out a ukulele at the beginning
She’s not a groomer! Just a kidnapper :)
I love that the ukelele apology that comes to mind also has a connection to Broadway lol
the toxic gossip traaaain 🎶🎶
if you are not on the PR list for part 2, i will riot.
Thank you for giving "Thank Goodness" its flowers as the underrated bop that it is, that last "I couldn't be happier" lives in my mind rent-free 💖
I’m so glad you answered “who is the best elphaba” correctly. Jessica Vosk is just mind-blowingly incredible.
This was such an amazing video, you did get through the good bad and the ugly of this show. Nessaroses character is really one of my biggest grips with Wicked. I had problems with mobility since I was a kid which makes acting, something I love very much so difficult to be able to do professionally and I was so upset when i find out the one role for disabled people is one that has never been played by a physically disabled person as well as almost impossible for them to play the part, if theres anything i wish the show (and hopefully the moive) changes its Nessas part in the show
the elphaba appearance already has me hooked
As a wicked stan, I can’t even begin to discuss my gratitution for this video
I am from Italy and born in the 90s, so it's safe to say no musical was ever popular when I was a teenager. Somehow I fell in love with Wicked in high school and got to see it in London. I then got my hands on the first book in Italian (the only one translated so far) and after the initial shock... I completely fell in love with it. I then read all the books in English and just fell more in love with everything. Ashley said it well, do not expect the musical and the book to be too related, everything about them comes from very different places. I would also recommend to read the biography of Schwartz, there's a first draft of the Wicked musical storyline, plus lots of notes, and it's really interesting to see how they went from the book to the musical!
thank goodness is quite literally poetry.... because getting your dreams as strange as it seems is a little, well, complicated! there's a kind of a sort of ... cost... theres a couple of things get lost... there are BRIDGES YOU DIDNT KNOW YOU COULD CROSSSS UNTIL YOU CROSSSSS and if that joy! that thrill! doesn't thrill like you think it will! still this perfect finale with the cheers and the ballyoo whoo whooo wouldnt be happier so i couldnt be happier because happy is what happens when all your dreams come true... ISNT IT? like come onnn i think of those lyrics more than almost any others in the world
glinda was such a kristen chenoweth coded character that when i saw wicked for the first time i only knew her from pushing daisies and accurately guessed that she was the original glinda when my mom and i were in the merch line during intermission
I was just about to have a crochet session; perfect timing as always, Ashley!!
i was lucky enough to see the deaf west production of spring awakening when it happened, it was so incredible. i really hope more shows like it happen
Them saying “just two friends” so much makes me shiver at what Good Omens could have been. And the reality that if they never kissed, a large part of that audience would actually genuinely believe they were just “friends” 😭
babe wake up Ashley just uploaded a 52 min video abt Wicked the musical
oh I clocked in immediately
Re: the book/musical differences, I had the opposite experience when, in college, everyone was talking about the musical and being a reader, I grabbed the novel to see what it was about. After that first chapter my only thought was “they made a musical of this?!” I eventually finished the book, but it was quickly obvious the two works were wildly different!!
The only time I've had the pleasure to see it, it was a no fly show! My friends were so disappointed, mad even, and I was just sobbing from the incredible powerful moment. Cool to know it's a coveted experience 😂
I've literally never been happier to see someone painted green that's prepared to talk to me for over 30 minutes
Omg i really thought only our galinda in the dutch production was trying get the dutch elphaba laugh but hearing you say its just... a thing now no matter where made me laugh 😂
OKAY WAIT I CRIED laughing with the whole queen announcement then opening number 😂 that is the funniest shit I have ever heard
First musical I ever saw was Bernadette in Annie get your gun, the second was your favorite musical, Andrew Lloyd Webbers "Cars".. Both me and my mom fell asleep 😬
I meant cats... But I would pay so much for alw to adapt Cars.. He has experience with sentient modes of transport so surely it just makes sense
CARS
ALW version of cars will haunt my dreams tonight actually. What a horrifying slip to me personally
TH-cam decided to pregame this video with a Wicked ad and I appreciate that
not me tweeting like 5 minutes ago that i still don't know what wicked is about and then I saw you posted this!!
As a non-American person who has never seen the wizard of oz or wicked growing up I gotta say: my god that’s one hell of story
I have had so much work to get done the last few days and I have been playing your vids because something about you talking about a random AF topic for an hour is really calming
my favorite musical ever and i feel so so grateful to say i’ll be getting to see it this winter!!!
ashley, this video rocks. you clearly care so much about wicked (me too girl i saw it at 13 and i haven’t stopped thinking about it since). my personal favorite glinda has to be megan hilty (god’s gift to earth). you have such insightful things to say about this show. i can’t wait for you to see the movie and i hope you get on the wicked 2 pr list!!!
As someone who's been dying to know more about musical theater for years, I appreciate your videos on musicals! Can't wait to see the movie! Wish it were easier to go and see stage shows live, too 😅Wicked is set to hit the stage in April 2025 where I live, but I just came back from a trip to see another musical live and it took three whole days in total...
Oh my god I’m so excited for this video
as someone who saw the jessica vosk run of wicked, THANK U for giving my girl her flowers. theeeee best !!!
This is the kind of theater content that I crave. Thank you for your service, Ashley.
somehow you consistently seem to make videos about things completely in my niche and i have to say: THANK YOU. and thank you x2 for the brittney johnson and katie rose clarke appreciation
Omg I'm sorry Kristin Chenoweth but you've been usurped from your position as the best Glinda; Goose in a blonde wig is simply perfect.
Every now and then I go through obsessions with wicked. I haven’t had one of these phases in a while, thank you for unlocking the rabbit hole
same life in only seeing the show live once as a kid and having the trajectory of your life changed… my next birthday after going to the tour was wicked themed with pink and green decorations lol (and yes i am still addicted to defying gravity riff videos too. myra ruiz and willemijn verkaik’s final performances make me tear up every time) 🫡
38:26 this rings true today too.
* gets on the ground and lies down at like a 45° angle * Okay I'm ready
I'm picturing you doing that move Raygun did at the Olympics
The ensemble during a no fly show:
24:07 Ashley is on a mission and I am here for it
I finally get what that guy from Chicken Girls was on about. Her defying gravity really IS the best part
I didn’t anticipate this video, I love your commentary and will probably watch it again several times a la Jenny Nichols review of the Star Wars hotel
This is everything I needed. I’m still nervous about how the movies are gonna turn out but all the hype around it has sent me right back into my wicked phase that I crawled out of around 8th grade. My partner and I watched a very legal recording of it the other night and now we’ve had the songs stuck in our heads for a week. Thanks Ashley!!💚💗
edit: YES THANK GOODNESS IS MY FAVE it hits me EVERY time
"With each new trailer I CRIED" girl me too i tought i was alone on this
I love that we all lived similar theater kid lives. I found you through your American Girl video and every one since has been stuff that I also tangentially think about
i'm so excited that you tackled this bc i've fallen down the rabbit hole lately. but also babbity kate mention!!!!
and they were roommates
oh my gosh they were ROOMMATES ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
What a let down. I thought the queen dying would prompt a "the wicked Witch is dead joke" on account of Bloody Sunday or the "No Gays in the Palace" rule that stood until 1995, or just because I literally don't know a single person who is pro monarchy
I really enjoyed the portion about Nessa and her disability. It made me think about disability visibility in theater as a whole. When you said Nessa is the only principal character that has a visible disability, I immediately said “No wait, what about Crutchie from Newsies?” But then it had me thinking about how Crutchie himself was portrayed in the show (I’ve never seen the movie, so I have no idea how it was handled there.)
I was so lucky to see the musical on my birthday this year! It was during October so it was especially festive and I genuinely can't wait for the movie I'm so excited (the costumes of this musical are far too beautiful, I'm going to start dressing like an Ozite, if you have the chance to go and they're coming to a city near you, don't hesitate)
A new Ashley Norton video? I am SEATED
Idina Menzel came to my state on her tour and getting to sing some of the Wicked soundtrack (and stuff from her other plays) with her was genuinely one of the most fun things ever
I saw Wicked at the Pantages in Hollywood with Stephanie J. Block as Elphaba in 2005. It was the first musical I ever saw live (and the only one at all before a couple years ago) and it will always have a place in my heart. That being said, if I ever see the film, it will 100% be for Jonathan Bailey, who can do no wrong imo.
Edit: I’ve also seen Disneyland rides with the lights on! Do not recommend Space Mountain that way.
I’ve been rewatching so many of your videos in the past few days so you can’t imagine how excited I was to see this pop up in my notifs
perfect outro, 10/10 you should do that for every video
Fun fact my middle school dance teachers daughter played elphaba on broadway
Omg that opening after the queen died killed me😂
ashley you don't know how much i needed this
my wicked stan heart "couldn't be happier!"
Not even 10 minutes in and the phrase "token goat" already had me untethered to this plain
I read the book so many years ago I don’t remember much except it was very wierd and dark extreeeemely horny and all the names were wild lol
cruella isnt a prequel, its an alternate story, in the og cruella is actually evil, in cruella she just allows people to think shes evil, i genuinely love that movie
we NEED Ashley on the PR list for Wicked ASAP! It may be illegal if we dont; i don't make the rules tho; Also THANK YOU for the advocation for wheelchair users!!
I think this was exactly the thing I needed to get myself to the proper level of hype about the Wicked Movie. Thank you so much
oh she's taking it
Ashley bless you I needed something to watch while playing video games
Been waiting all my life for your Wicked takes. Tysm
It’s so kind of you to make this and release it just in time for me to have something to watch at the airport thank you Ashley 🫶🏻
Glad I made it to the end for Goose
audibly gasped when you showed up with green paint
I’m a little too excited to learn that Ashley is a fellow BabbityKate fan
JACKLYN HILL'S CHAMPAGNE POP AHAHAHAH 15:58
i like how even in the ad segment ashley's wearing a vaguely dorothy-esque outfit. never not on brand
ashley i have been waiting my entire life for this vid from you queen im sat im ready!!!
I was just binging your videos! Thank you!
my queen being back with top tier quality content while i am sick is the best thing to happen today
Oh I have never been more sat for a video in my life
Unrelated but you look ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE in the thumbnail
Oh my god, I also have a core memory of my mom taking me to see Wicked in 2007 and it also started my love of musical theater 😂 I’m soo excited to see the movie!
OK, this is the video I needed so bad. I never even tried to understand the hype. I’ve never seen wicked and this is my first introduction to it besides the theatrical trailers and I couldn’t have asked for a better first analysis 👏👏
man, i found you when you had 10k followers. :,) i just think you’re amazing ashley!!!
i remember falling in love with the music before knowing the story! we played a medley in my middle school orchestra class and I was enthralled. also maybe i was grateful to not play classical music for once.
So the book actually does answer the "is it green?" Question...
Ashley your brilliant mind, you’ve done it again.