Theater & Film
Wicked, Part One: The Musical Film
The award-winning film Wicked Part 1 is available for streaming now. The second film, Wicked: For Good, releases November 21, 2025.
The award-winning film Wicked Part 1 is available for streaming now. The second film, Wicked: For Good, releases November 21, 2025.
Wicked: The Musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman, opened on Broadway in October. 2004. It is the fourth longest running play in Broadway history. In December 2025 it broke another Broadway record, the first play to bring in 5 million dollars in a single week. A dozen troupes have played Wicked internationally, and the London company in the West End celebrates its twentieth anniversary autumn 2026.
ABC continues the long process of developing a non-musical television event based on the novel.
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, an ABC film for TV starring Stockard Channing and Jonathan Pryce, first aired in March 2002.
EGG & SPOON has been optioned by Universal Studios for a live-action major musical film. Craig Mazin, script, and Jeanine Tesori, composer, are said to be lined up, though the project has yet to be green-lighted.
In 2015, the Central Square Theater produced a short theater piece marrying Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince” and GM’s “Matchless.”
In 2010, the Boston Center for the Arts produced “The Seven Stage a Comeback” as a one-act play; this was written by GM and derived from his short story of the same name.