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Here’s something that hasn’t been done with a musical before: Universal will release its feature take on the smash Broadway musical Wicked in two parts on December 25, 2024 and December 25, 2025. It’s a bold swing for a musical, which of late have been risky onscreen. However, this one is based on a legacy crowd-pleaser.

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaBroadwayHD, a streaming service based around live theater, will exclusively show “Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook” starting this month. The show is from Broadway and film composer, Stephen Schwartz, and writer David Stern.

Only Murders in the Building to a Wicked special and a new Marie Kondo series. Here’s everything you need to earmark: in Concert: A Musical Celebration of the Iconic Score: , this will be “a musical celebration of the iconic Broadway score written by legendary composer Stephen Schwartz.” 9 p.m.

removed “Wicked” from its release calendar as part of the COVID-19 pandemic after originally being slated for release on December 22, 2021.No cast has been set for the film as of yet. Marc Platt is producing, while original Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz and musical book writer Winnie Holzman wrote the screenplay.

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The long-gestating film adaptation of the Broadway hit “Wicked” has hit another snag. Director Stephen Daldry is exiting the project, a studio representative confirmed Tuesday.The industry trade website Deadline first reported the news.The “Billy Elliot” director has been associated with the adaptation for years, going back as far as 2012.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaStephen Schwartz, the musical maestro behind such iconic shows as “Pippin” and “Wicked,” will be the subject of a new documentary from John Scheinfeld.Entitled “Defying Gravity: From Godspell to Wicked, A Musical Journey,” the film will commence production in 2021 and will track the highs and lows of Schwartz’s remarkable career.

Idina Menzel, Billy Porter, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo and more came together over the weekend for "Saturday Night Seder," a virtual, star-studded Passover seder. About 50 celebrities participated in traditional storytelling, comedic skits and musical performances recalling maggid, the story of the Jews' exodus from Egypt.

Dreamworks Animation’s classic 1998 animated feature gets the stage treatment in a new theatrical imagining – an epic spectacular with music and lyrics from the creative mind of Stephen Schwartz.