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Anakha ([personal profile] bluerosedreams) wrote2013-10-31 08:50 am
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The story opens months later. Elphaba is now known as the Wicked Witch of the West. The citizens of Oz live in fear. Glinda, loved by all, is now known as Glinda the Good. Fiyero is now Captain of the Guard. The day is set aside to celebrate their engagement. And as they speak and celebrate, Morrible relates the story made up about what happened with Elphaba. That Glinda was the one called, to be named Glinda the Good officially. And that, in jealously, Elphaba made herself known. The people then begin to spread rumors, ending on how her soul is so unclean, water could melt her. As this goes on, Fiyero and Glinda argue--him calling her out on how she's thriving in the attention and forgetting about Elphaba. Glinda asks if that's so wrong, and he storms off to continue looking for Elphaba.

Glinda says he went to get refreshments, and then goes on about how she's really happy, really!!!! But then she begins to realize the price she paid for that happiness, and realizes, no, she isn't actually happy. And then she realizes she's saying all this in front of people so quickly puts up a front so no one suspects her sympathizing with Elphaba.



Meanwhile, Nessarose and Boq are having dinner. Or, well, Nessa is, and ordering Boq around. He leaves the room, and Nessa, distraught, turns to the mirror. Suddenly, Elphaba steps out, and Nessa screams. They have an exchange where Nessa explains that their father died of shame, and she complains that her sister never helped her despite helping animals she didn't even know! Elphie begins to says there's not a spell for everything, then realizes she has a way to help. So she opens the book and enchants the shoes on her sister's feet, so the crystal slippers become ruby red and allow her to walk.

Excited, Nessa calls Boq in. He freaks out when he sees Elphaba, and says that Nessa is as wicked as she is. Elphie is confused, so he explains: Nessa has stripped munchkins of their rights further so that he can't leave her. Nessa gets up, saying it doesn't matter anymore. Boq says this changes everything, and then goes on about how this means he can leave because she can now freely care for herself. He wants to go appeal to Glinda who is now engaged to Fiyero, saying that she had to have known he lost his heart to her long ago.

Angry and hurt, Nessa says that they'll see about that lost heart. She asks if he thought she'd let him leave. She claims he's going to lose his heart to her, so she grabs the book and begins to read. Pronouncing the words wrong, instead of making him fall in love, she shrinks his heart into nonexistence. She becomes distressed, asking how to reverse it. But Elphaba says she can't. So Elphie takes the book, and while Nessa laments what she's done and how this means she'll be alone again, Elphie works her powers to save Boq as best she can. Nessa comments how she and "the girl in the mirror" deserve each other and how she's the Wicked Witch of the East. Elphie wheels out the chair with Boq on it, but doesn't allow Nessa to see. She comments that he won't need a heart now, and then goes on to say that she could never do anything for Nessa because it would never be enough. She leaves the way she came as Boq wakes. He realizes then what happened: his body is now tin, as does Nessa. He freaks out, and goes running, leaving Nessarose once more on her own as she calls after him, blaming Elphaba.

Meanwhile, Elphaba arrives at the Emerald City to break out the monkeys she gave wings to. But as she does so, the Wizard arrives, and they have a confrontation. In which he explains a lot about how he had gotten caught up in all of it even though he kind of knew it was wrong, but he didn't really have any power. HE just told people what they wanted.



He almost entices Elphaba into it, telling her she could be seen as the most wonderful reformed person ever--there would be a celebration all across Oz all to do with her! Elphaba recalls her vision and gets caught up in his energy, saying it sounds wonderful. She makes a deal--if he lets the monkeys go and stops, she'll turn herself in and become "reformed." But after he lets the monkeys go, she finds Doctor Dillamond. She speaks with him, and realizes it will never stop. So she calls to deal off--just as the guards arrive. They surround her, but Fiyero buys her time then goes after her. Glinda, realizing that Fiyero was happiest with Elphaba, is distraught. They need a plan to draw her out, and heartbroken, Glinda suggests starting a rumor that Nessarose has been captured.

After Glinda goes off, Morrible comments that it has to be real--and so concocts a tornado with her weather powers.



Fiyero and Elphaba on the run. they stop in a swamp for the night to rest, and share a heartfelt duet. As long as they have each other, they'll be fine. And at the end, she says that she feels wicked for the first time. They then try to plan out where to go, and he offers one of his family's castles as no one is ever there. As they come to this decision, Elphaba has a vision of a terrible twister tossing a house around. When he sees nothing, she realizes it's foretelling disaster and that it has to do with Nessa, so she goes to see her at his urging. They'll meet up later.

The next scene cuts to just after Dorothy has left, and Glinda retrieves some lilies and places them at the broken remains of Nessa's chair--all that is left of her. Elphaba comes out from where she was hiding, angrily throwing accusations at Glinda. That the shoes were the only memory she had left of Nessa now, and Glinda knew that, and she had to have had a hand in this, etc. Including an amusing exchange about how Elphaba flies around on an old broom, with Elphie firing back, "Not everyone can come and go by BUBBLE!"

Guards arrive and surround Elphaba, and she grimly accepts her fate--until Fiyero shows up. He threatens to kill Glinda if they don't let Elphaba go, and so they do. And once she's gone, they capture him. Glinda begs them to leave him alone because he was just acting out of love, but instead they tie him to a cross and hang him in a field to beat him to death.



Distraught, she arrives at the castle, screaming Fiyero's name. She immediately begins to cast a spell to save him in any way she can, so that he can't die by their hands, that he won't even bleed. But in the middle of the spell, she realizes she doesn't even know what she's reading, or what spell she's casting or if it even worked from so far away. Angrily, she looks back and realizes she may not have been looking to do good, but maybe she'd been looking for attention. She blames herself for the fates of Fiyero, Nessarose and Doctor Dillamond, saying that no good deed goes unpunished. After all, that's what happened to her.

She then decrees that she will punish every good deed, that all thoughts of them should be circumvented. Because they only bring pain--"sure, I meant well, well, look what well-meant did." She says that if Oz agrees that she is wicked, then so she will be--her final act of Good will be saving Fiyero.



Elsewhere, Boq is gathering up witch hunters. Morrible and Glinda see them off, wishing them well. Boq is thankful for his lack of a heart now, because it means he won't feel anything when killing Elphaba--a girl he knew and even was kind of friendly with before. He then blames her, and offers the Cowardly Lion as more evidence. "If she had let him fight his own battles when he was young, he wouldn't be a coward today." As the witch hunters go off to kill Elphaba, Glinda confronts Morrible about the weather. Morrible comments that Glinda can't do anything and should just continue to look pretty and smile.

Realizing the mistake she made, Glinda leaves, beating the witch hunters to Elphaba's castle, where she has captured Dorothy. She angrily tells the girl to give up the ruby slippers and she'll let her go, and then paces. Glinda and her share a few words when a letter arrives from Fiyero. Elphaba decides it's time to end this, and begins to set things up--a bucket of water by the well, and then, she takes the book and hands it to Glinda. She freaks out because she can't read it--"Well, then, you'll have to learn."



Elphaba comments that she's limited, and that Glinda can do everything she couldn't. She can fix Oz. Glinda says that she's heard that people come into each other's lives for a reason, and how they're led to people who will help them to grow if they let them. She doesn't know if she believes it, but she does know she's who she is because of Elphaba--and that she had changed for good. Elphie returns that they may not meet again, so she has to say that a lot of her is based on what she learned from her interactions with Glinda. No matter how the story ends for them, Glinda's rewritten her story period and she, too, has been changed for good.

Elphaba asks forgiveness for the things she's done, and Glinda says they both have blame to share, but none of it matters anymore. They both say they believe they have been changed for the better. So they say their good-byes, elphaba making Glinda promise not to tell anyone about the truth. She hesitantly agrees and hides nearby while the confrontation takes place. In the end, Elphaba melts, and when everyone leaves, Glinda comes out, quietly speaking Elphie's nickname before realizing her friend is gone.

Glinda returns to the Emerald City, holding the green bottle--all that was left of Elphaba besides her hat. She realizes she'd seen the bottle before and says it was right there in that room, when the Wizard offered her a drink. She hands him the bottle, and he recalls a woman, long ago. As this happens, in the background, we see the mysterious stranger and Elphaba's mother twirl past as he remembers and realizes: he'd had his own daughter, the one thing he'd always wanted, killed. Morrible also makes the connection, realizing that this is why she had been so powerful.

Angry, Glinda says that the Wizard better get going. Then, as he runs off, ashamed at himself, Glinda turns on Morrible, asking if she'd ever thought of how she'd fare in captivity.

"Captivity. Pri-son. Personally I don’t think you’d hold up very well. You see, my personal opinion is that you do not have what it takes. I hope you prove me wrong. I doubt you will! Take her away!"



And so Morrible is jailed and the true Wickedness in Oz is finally dispersed to some degree, leaving Glinda in charge. The people outside begin to celebrate, picking up at the beginning of the musical. Meanwhile, in the castle, the Scarecrow--in truth, Fiyero--arrives and knocks on a piece of stone below where Elphaba died. He says it worked. Slowly, Elphaba rises--a trick to make people think she had died. Now, though, she and Fiyero must leave Oz for good. As they begin to leave, a chorus sings about how no one mourns the wicked.

Elphaba wishes she could say good-bye to Glinda, but Fiyero reminds her she can't--Glinda would want to come. So the begin to leave, but stop when Elphaba hears Glinda singing out part of For Good. About how if anyone can know if she's been changed for the better. Elphaba matches her from afar as the crowd continues to talk about how no one mourns the wicked, ending on the same discordant note that the very beginning number did--as Elphaba and Fiyero walk through a magical door and leave Oz for good.