Wicked Is Finally Flying Onto Streaming (With Hours of Extras)
Oh, Miss Elphaba. The things one watches these days!
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This article was originally published December 26, 2024 and has been updated ahead of Wicked’s Peacock release.
Nowhere is safe from the phenomenon known as Wizomania — not even your home. On March 21, Wicked, which has already been available on digital, will be released onto Peacock like so many flying monkeys. This streaming release follows a record-setting box-office run for the Broadway musical adaptation, and it will be accompanied by hours of bonus material for fans who think the film, which is only “Part One” of a two-movie experience, could have been much longer. These bonus features serve a dual-purpose, as they also allow for stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande to take a brief reprieve from producing bonus content of their own via grueling, surrealist press tour. Now, it looks like the extras for the digital VOD and Peacock releases don’t entirely match up, so we thought it’d be a good idea to let you know what’s available where.
Here are the extras coming to the Peacock release, which will naturally be branded the “Defying Gravity” collection:
And here are the three hours worth of extras on the digital VOD release include:
The digital and home-streaming releases are also loaded with deleted and extended scenes, which Universal has already titled and described in full. (Note: We’ve marked the ones announced for Peacock with an asterisk.*)
Of course, Ariana Grande and Bowen Yang “performing a twirling routine” is by far the most interesting-sounding of these deleted moments, although an extended version of Elphaba and Fiyero’s little forest moment is promising, because maybe they kiss? Egregiously absent from either list is the teased deleted montage in which Jonathan Bailey and Ethan Slater take their shirts off. We missed the boat for the physical-media release, but maybe Peacock will right this wrong before March 21? We can only hope.
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