#do you want to know the objectively best scene of wicked or any other musical #it is is the opening of wicked like when glinda the new ruler of oz is in her bubble trying to lead her people forward into goodness #trying to construct a narrative about her dead best friend that they can hear and understand #like she is still trying to change her country’s oppressive social consciousness from within it #trying to teach her people compassion and perspective #she believes in these people #she thinks they can learn #and they’re all just shrieking no one mourns the— wickeeeeeed #evil threatened their complacent society evil lived in the margins evil refused to obey #and glinda so exquisite and determined and still crying (she died alone!) #— but still trying to find or create goodness #and then the huge clutching silhouette of elphaba in hat and cloak #defiant and dark against the morning sky #dead but not gone