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Hope everyone has been doing great and enjoying life! Appreciate you sharing
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Join me on the below dates starting at 8:00 PM Eastern for each event on the
below Zoom platform! We will be showing the below audio described movies and
Name That Tune for the month of February! If you would like to be added to
my weekly reminder list, send me a message at movies at nfbofsc.org
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Saturday, February 7, 2026

West Side Story 2021

Friday, February 13, 2026

Wicked (2024)

Friday, February 20, 2026

Wicked- For Good (2025)

Friday, February 27, 2026

Name That Tune

SC Tech Talk every Saturday at 3:00 PM eastern on the same Zoom platform

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Wicked 

In the Land of Oz, Glinda the Good joins the citizens of Munchkinland as
they celebrate the death of the Wicked Witch of the West. When asked whether
wickedness is inherent or learned, Glinda explains that the Witch was the
product of an affair between Governor Thropp's wife Melena and a mysterious
traveling salesman. The salesman offered Melena a green elixir, causing the
Witch to be born with green skin. Maligned from birth for her skin and
impulsive use of magical powers, the Witch fostered a wish to meet the
Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the ruler of Oz famed for his power to grant wishes.
When the Munchkins ask if Glinda was friends with the Witch, she reflects on
their relationship back at school.

Years earlier, green-skinned Elphaba Thropp escorts younger sister Nessarose
on her first day at Shiz University. Nessarose's paraplegia causes the staff
to patronise her, prompting an emotional outburst of Elphaba's powers.
Shiz's Dean of Sorcery Studies, Madame Morrible, offers to enroll and
privately tutor Elphaba in sorcery. She accepts, hoping she can fulfill her
dream of working with the Wizard. Elphaba clashes constantly with her
roommate, the popular Galinda Upland, who longs to become Morrible's
student.

Elphaba follows the history professor, Dr. Dillamond, a talking goat who
faces discrimination as one of Shiz's last Animal professors, to a meeting
of Animals off-campus. Learning the Animals are somehow losing their ability
to speak, Elphaba assures Dillamond the Wizard will set it right. Rebellious
prince and transfer student Fiyero Tigelaar takes a group of students to a
party at the Ozdust Ballroom nightclub. Boq Woodsman, a Munchkin, asks
Galinda to accompany him; to ensure she can attend with Fiyero, Galinda
convinces him to invite Nessarose instead. Nessarose is overjoyed, and in
thanks, Elphaba convinces Morrible to allow Galinda to study sorcery as
well. When she is ridiculed at the Ozdust for wearing an ugly black hat
gifted by Galinda as a practical joke, a remorseful Galinda dances with her
and the two begin to bond.

When Dillamond informs the class that Animals are no longer allowed to teach
at Shiz, he is forcibly removed from the classroom and replaced by the
unscrupulous Professor Nikidik who demonstrates a cage containing a
frightened lion cub, designed to prevent Animals from learning to speak.
Elphaba angrily spins poppy dust over the room, and escapes with Fiyero when
the class falls unconscious. They release the cub into the forest and
Elphaba laments her unrequited feelings for Fiyero, who has chosen Galinda.

Elphaba receives an invitation from the Wizard, made aware of her powers by
Morrible. She arrives in the Emerald City with Galinda, now calling herself
"Glinda" in misguided solidarity with Dillamond, who constantly
mispronounced her name. Their meeting with the Wizard, in which they're
surprised to learn he's an ordinary man, is witnessed by Morrible. They urge
Elphaba to cast a levitation spell from the sacred Grimmerie, a spellbook
that only powerful sorcerers can read and comprehend, causing the Wizard's
monkey guards to painfully sprout wings. As the Wizard and Morrible rejoice
over their newfound ability to use the monkeys as spies, Elphaba realizes
that they are the ones behind the Animals' oppression and that the
fraudulent Wizard, unable to read the Grimmerie and lacking real magic of
his own, used her to subjugate them further. A horrified Elphaba seizes the
Grimmerie and flees.

Glinda follows Elphaba, who refuses to apologize to the Wizard as Morrible
denounces her to all of Oz. Elphaba tries to escape the Emerald City in the
Wizard's hot air balloon, but the way up is barred and the balloon burns up.
High in a palace attic, Elphaba repeats the levitation spell on a broom. She
urges Glinda to come with her, but Glinda chooses to remain behind. The two
share an emotional farewell before Elphaba flies west. Fiyero leaves Shiz on
horseback amidst a mass evacuation while Governor Thropp suffers a heart
attack when he and Nessarose receive the news.

Cast

Jonathan Bailey, Ariana Grande, and Cynthia Erivo (L-R) play Fiyero, Glinda,
and Elphaba

Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp, a misunderstood young woman born with green
skin who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West[9][10]

Karis Musongole as young Elphaba[11]

Ariana Grande[b] as Galinda "Glinda" Upland, a charismatic young woman who
becomes Glinda the Good[c][9][13]

Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero Tigelaar, a handsome prince from Winkie Country
who meets Elphaba and Galinda at school[14][15]

Ethan Slater as Boq Woodsman, a Munchkin in love with Galinda[16][17]

Bowen Yang as Pfannee, one of Glinda's college friends[18]

Marissa Bode as Nessarose Thropp, Elphaba's paraplegic younger
half-sister[18]

Cesily Collette Taylor as young Nessarose[19]

Peter Dinklage as the voice of Dr. Dillamond, a talking goat and history
professor at Shiz University who befriends Elphaba[20]

Luisa Guerreiro was the movement artist for Dr. Dillamond

Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, the Dean of Sorcery Studies at Shiz
University[21][22]

Jeff Goldblum as the Wonderful Wizard of Oz[23]

Bronwyn James as ShenShen, one of Galinda's college friends[18]

Andy Nyman as Governor Thropp, Elphaba and Nessarose's father, and the
Governor of Munchkinland[24]

Courtney-Mae Briggs as Mrs. Thropp, Elphaba and Nessarose's mother who died
after giving birth to Nessarose[25]

Keala Settle as Miss Coddle, the headmistress of Shiz University[26]

Aaron Teoh as Avaric, Boq's friend[27]

Sharon D. Clarke as the voice of Dulcibear, a talking Bear who helps deliver
Elphaba during her birth and serves as a nanny to the Thropp

Wicked- For Good (2025)

Some time after defying the Wonderful Wizard of Oz,[d] Elphaba Thropp, now
branded as the Wicked Witch of the West by Madame Morrible, continues
battling for Animal rights from a forest hideout. Glinda Upland, now the
Wizard's spokesperson, is engaged to Fiyero Tigelaar, now Captain of the
Gale Force. As Oz celebrates the grand opening of the Yellow Brick Road,
Fiyero reveals he is attempting to locate Elphaba, though Glinda insists
Elphaba does not want to be found.

Elphaba encounters some Animals leaving Oz, including her former caretaker
Dulcibear, and encourages them to fight against the Wizard. The Cowardly
Lion dissuades them, exposing Elphaba as the reason for the Wizard's flying
monkey spies. Elphaba visits her sister Nessarose, who has inherited their
father's governorship of Munchkinland. Nessarose prohibits the Munchkins,
including her servant Boq, from leaving without her approval. Elphaba
enchants Nessarose's shoes, giving her the ability to fly. Boq, deciding
Nessarose no longer needs him because of this and having learned of Glinda
and Fiyero's wedding, tries to leave Nessarose. She casts a love spell from
the Grimmerie, but it backfires, shrinking his heart. Elphaba's attempt to
save him turns him into a tin man.

Elphaba returns to the Emerald City, where Glinda implores her to join the
Wizard. She accepts under the condition that the flying monkeys be freed.
Chistery, one of the monkeys, reveals several Animals imprisoned within the
Wizard's lair, including Dr. Dillamond, who has lost his ability to speak.
Reaffirming her resolve to fight the Wizard, Elphaba frees the Animals,
interrupting Fiyero and Glinda's wedding. Fiyero helps Elphaba escape and
joins her. Concluding that they are having an affair, Glinda vengefully
suggests that the Wizard and Morrible lure out Elphaba by spreading a rumor
that Nessarose is in trouble.

At their hideout, Elphaba and Fiyero profess mutual love. He sends her to an
abandoned castle, Kiamo Ko, for shelter. Morrible, realizing a simple rumor
would not fool Elphaba, creates a tornado that takes a house from Kansas,
which fatally crushes Nessarose. Glinda gives Nessarose's shoes to the
house's occupant, Dorothy Gale, and directs her to the Wizard, promising
that he can help her return home. A fight begins between Glinda and Elphaba
before the Gale Force arrives. Fiyero intervenes and holds back the guards
by threatening to kill Glinda, who finally accepts that he loves Elphaba.
While the guards drag Fiyero into a field and savagely beat him, Elphaba
escapes with the monkeys to Kiamo Ko, where she casts a spell to save
Fiyero's life. Believing she has failed, and lamenting all her previous
failed attempts to do right, she decides to embrace her perceived
"wickedness".

Dorothy, alongside Boq, the Lion, and a scarecrow, meets the Wizard, who
instructs them to kill Elphaba and bring him her broom. Boq rallies the
citizens of Emerald City against Elphaba. Lamenting that her public image is
built on lies, Glinda confronts Morrible about the tornado, but Morrible
rebuffs her. Glinda rushes to Kiamo Ko to warn Elphaba about the mob.
Elphaba kidnaps Dorothy and imprisons her to retrieve the shoes just as
Glinda arrives. After Chistery informs them of Fiyero's apparent death,
Elphaba decides to surrender, imploring Glinda to withhold the truth from
the people and entrusting her with the Grimmerie. They reaffirm their
friendship in a tearful farewell. Glinda hides and watches in horror as
Dorothy douses Elphaba in water, seemingly melting her.

Having regained speech, Chistery gives Glinda Elphaba's green elixir bottle,
which belonged to Elphaba's mother. She brings it to the Wizard, who
realizes that he is Elphaba's biological father and the reason for her
power. Ashamed of his actions, he leaves Oz at Glinda's insistence. Glinda
directs the monkeys to apprehend Morrible for her crimes. She finishes
telling her story to the Munchkins and reestablishes rights for the Animals,
who get their voices back. The Scarecrow-revealed to be Fiyero, transformed
by Elphaba's spell-returns to Kiamo Ko and discovers Elphaba under a
trapdoor, having faked her death to ensure that she is never seen in Oz
again. They depart Oz while the Grimmerie opens for Glinda.

Cast

Jonathan Bailey, Ariana Grande, and Cynthia Erivo (L-R) reprise their roles
as Fiyero, Glinda, and Elphaba respectively

Ariana Grande[b] as Galinda "Glinda" Upland, a charismatic young woman who
is now known as Glinda the Good.[e][12][13]

Scarlett Spears as young Glinda[14]

Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp, a misunderstood young woman born with green
skin who is now known as the Wicked Witch of the West.[12][13]

Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero Tigelaar, a Winkie prince who is now Captain of
the Gale Force. He is later transformed into the Scarecrow by Elphaba.[15]

Ethan Slater as Boq Woodsman, a Munchkin who now works as Nessarose's
servant. He is later transformed into the Tin Man by Elphaba.[13]

Bowen Yang as Pfannee, one of Glinda's college friends who now works as one
of her assistants.[16][17]

Marissa Bode as Nessarose Thropp, Elphaba's paraplegic younger half-sister
who is now Governor of Munchkinland and the self-proclaimed Wicked Witch of
the East.[18]

Colman Domingo as the voice of the Cowardly Lion, a talking Lion who was
saved by Fiyero and Elphaba as a cub in Wicked, and later befriends Dorothy
Gale.[19]

Omari Bernard was the movement artist for the Lion

Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, the former Dean of Sorcery at Shiz
University, who is now the Press Secretary for the Wizard.[20]

Jeff Goldblum as the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a conman masquerading as a
"wizard", who rules Oz as a seemingly benevolent dictator. He is later
revealed to be Elphaba's biological father.[21]

Bronwyn James as ShenShen, one of Glinda's college friends who now works as
one of her assistants.[22]

Aaron Teoh as Avaric, Boq's friend and another one of Nessarose's servants.

Sharon D. Clarke as the voice of Dulcibear, a talking Bear and former nanny
to the Thropp family, who is among those departing Oz.

Madeline Wilson was the movement artist for Dulcibear

Bethany Weaver as Dorothy Gale, a Kansas farm girl who is brought to Oz with
her dog, Toto, by a tornado.[23] Though the character's presence is more
prominent than in the stage musical, her face is obscured to keep the focus
on Glinda and Elphaba,[24] save for a brief shot when Glinda sees her
passing through a door crack.[25][26]

Dee Bradley Baker as the voice of Chistery, the leader of the winged
monkeys.

Robin Guiver was the movement artist for Chistery

Samuel Wright as the Yellow Brick Road guard in the beginning of the movie.

Additionally, Keala Settle, Luisa Guerreiro, Adam James and Alice Fearn
reprise their roles from Wicked as Miss Coddle, Dr. Dillamond's movement
artist, and Glinda's parents, respectively. Courtney-Mae Briggs appears in
archival footage as Mrs. Thropp, Elphaba and Nessarose's late mother.

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