'She Is a Pawn in the Middle of All of It' — Wicked: For Good Director Confirms You'll See More of Dorothy This Time Around, but Not Her Face

Wicked: For Good volition diagnostic much of Dorothy this clip around, but it volition not amusement Dorothy’s face.

Confirmation comes from manager Jon M. Chu, who told People that portion Dorothy Gale volition look much heavy successful Wicked: For Good compared to the Broadway amusement upon which it is based, fans won’t get to spot her look due to the fact that this remains Elphaba and Glinda’s story.

“I didn’t privation to measurement connected who you deliberation Dorothy is successful immoderate communicative that you came into this with,” Chu said. The movie “is inactive Elphaba and Glinda’s journey, and she is simply a pawn successful the mediate of each of it.”

There has been aggravated speculation connected who would play Dorothy, with Abigail prima Alisha Weir and adjacent Taylor Swift suggested. In the archetypal trailer for Wicked: For Good, below, Dorothy tin beryllium seen from behind, but determination aren’t immoderate telling visuals that springiness distant who volition play the coveted role.

Dorothy was of people played by Judy Garland successful the 1939 musical, The Wizard of Oz. Here's the authoritative blurb connected Wicked: For Good:

Directed erstwhile again by award-winning manager Jon M. Chu and starring the spectacular returning cast, led by Academy Award nominated superstars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the last section of the untold communicative of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda estranged and surviving with the consequences of their choices.Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), present demonized arsenic The Wicked Witch of the West, lives successful exile, hidden wrong the Ozian wood portion continuing her combat for the state of Oz’s silenced Animals and desperately trying to exposure the information she knows astir The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum).Glinda, meanwhile, has go the glamorous awesome of Goodness for each of Oz, surviving astatine the palace successful Emerald City and reveling successful the perks of fame and popularity. Under the acquisition of Madame Morrible (Oscar victor Michelle Yeoh), Glinda is deployed to service arsenic an effervescent comfortableness to Oz, reassuring the masses that each is good nether the regularisation of The Wizard.As Glinda’s stardom expands and she prepares to wed Prince Fiyero (Olivier grant victor and Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey) successful a spectacular Ozian wedding, she is haunted by her separation from Elphaba. She attempts to broker a conciliation betwixt Elphaba and The Wizard, but those efforts volition fail, driving Elphaba and Glinda lone further apart. The aftershocks volition alteration Boq (Tony nominee Ethan Slater) and Fiyero forever, and endanger the information of Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose (Marissa Bode), erstwhile a miss from Kansas comes crashing into each their lives.As an aggravated mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba volition request to travel unneurotic 1 last time. With their singular relationship present the fulcrum of their futures, they volition request to genuinely spot each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to alteration themselves, and each of Oz, for good.

Wicked: For Good hits theaters November 21, 2025.

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