ELPHABA & GLINDA

AND WE’RE WARNING THE CITY:

NOW THAT WE’RE IN HERE

YOU’LL KNOW WE’VE BEEN HERE

ALL

BEFORE WE ARE DONE!

(They are in front of a Broadway-style marquee that reads Wiz-o-mania. TOURISTS pour into the theatre. GLINDA takes in the scene, enthralled.)

GLINDA

The night-life! The hustle and bustle! It’s all so… ozmopolitan! Elphie, come on—we’ll be late for Wizomania!

ELPHABA

I want to remember this moment. Always. Nobody’s staring. Nobody’s pointing. For the first time, I’m somewhere… where I belong.

GLINDA

You look positively—emerald!

(They take each other’s hands and run into the theatre.)

WIZOMANIA CHORUS

WHO’S THE MAGE

WHOSE MAJOR ITINERARY

IS MAKNG ALL OZ MERRIER?

WHO’S THE SAGE

WHO SAGELY SAILED IN TO SAVE

OUR POSTERIORS?

WHOSE ENTHUSE FOR HOT AIR BALLOONING

HAS ALL OZ HONEYMOONING?

WOO-OO-OO…

WIZ-N’T HE WONDERFUL?

(OUR WONDERFUL WIZARD!)

AUDIENCE WIZOMANIA CHORUS

ONE SHORT DAY WHO’S THE MAGE

IN THE EMERALD WHOSE MAJOR ITINERARY

CITY IS MAKING ALL OZ MERRIER

ONE SHORT DAY WHO’S THE SAGE WHO

TO HAVE A LIFETIME OF FUN SAGELY SAILED IN TO SAVE

OUR POSTERIORS…

ALL

WHAT A WAY

TO BE SEEING THE CITY…

ELPHABA & GLINDA

WHERE SO MANY ROAM TO

WE’LL CALL IT HOME TOO

AND THEN, JUST LIKE NOW

WE CAN SAY:

WE’RE JUST TWO FRIENDS…

ELPHABA

TWO GOOD FRIENDS…

GLINDA

TWO BEST FRIENDS…

ALL

SHARING ONE WONDERFUL

ONE SHORT…

GUARD

The Wizard will see you now!

ALL

DAY!

SCENE 13

(In the Wizard’s private chamber…)

OZ HEAD

I am Oz!

GLINDA

Elphie!

OZ HEAD

I am Oz, the great and terrible! Who are you and why do you seek me?!

GLINDA

Say something!

ELPHABA

I am Elphaba Thropp, Your Terribleness! And this is my best friend—

WIZARD’S VOICE

Oh, is that you Elphaba? I didn’t realize!

(ELPHABA and GLINDA come face to face with the WIZARD OF OZ.)

WIZARD

I hope I didn’t startle ya! It’s so hard to make out people’s faces when I’m back there. So, let’s see, which is which? Elphaba! A pleasure, Elphaba! And you must be…

GLINDA

Glinda, the Ga is silent.

(ELPHABA is observing the Oz Head.)

WIZARD

I know, it’s a bit much isn’t it? But people expect this sort of thing and you have to give people what they want.

ELPHABA

I’m so happy to meet you.

WIZARD

Well, that’s good—cuz that’s what I love best—making people happy.

(Sings)

I AM A SENTIMENTAL MAN

WHO ALWAYS LONGED TO BE A FATHER

THAT’S WHY I DO THE BEST I CAN

TO TREAT EACH CITIZEN OF OZ AS SON—

OR DAUGHTER…

SO ELPHABA, I’D LIKE TO RAISE YOU HIGH

‘CUZ I THINK EV’RYONE DESERVES

THE CHANCE TO FLY

AND HELPING YOU WITH YOUR ASCENT AL—

LOWS ME TO FEEL SO PARENTAL

FOR I AM A SENTIMENTAL MAN…

ELPHABA

Oh Your Ozness, I knew you would help! You see, we’re here not just for ourselves.

GLINDA

We’re not?

ELPHABA

No! We are here because something bad is happening to the Animals—

WIZARD

Please! I’m the Wizard of Oz! I already know why you’ve come.

ELPHABA & GLINDA

Oooooh!

WIZARD

I fully intend of granting your request. Of course, you must prove yourself first.

GLINDA

Of course! Prove yourself! Prove yourself!

ELPHABA

But how?

WIZARD

Madame, the book!

MORRIBLE

Right away, Your Ozness!

(To the GIRLS’ amazement, MADAME MORRIBLE appears.)

GLINDA

Madame Morrible?!

WIZARD

I believe you’re acquainted with my new press secretary.

ELPHABA

Press secretary?!

MORRIBLE

Yes dearies, I have risen up in the world! You will find that the Wizard is a very generous man! If you do something for him he will do much for you!

ELPHABA

But what would you like me to do?

WIZARD

This is my monkey servant, Chistery. He watches the birds so longingly every moring.

MORRIBLE

So his Ozness was thinking perhaps a levitation spell.

(She holds an ancient looking book out to ELPHABA.)

GLINDA

I don’t believe it. Is that… The Grimmerie!?

MORRIBLE

Yes. The Ancient Book of Thaumaturgy and Enchantments.

GLINDA

Can I touch it?

MORRIBLE

No.

ELPHABA

What funny writing.

MORRIBLE

It’s a lost language—the lost language of spells.

WIZARD

A kind of recipe book, for change.

MORRIBLE

Don’t be discouraged if you cannot decipherate it, dearie. I myself can only read a spell or two and that took years and years of constant study—

ELPHABA

Ahben Tahkay…

MORRIBLE ELPHABA

Merciful Oz! Ahben Tahkay…

WIZARD ELPHABA

Oh, Chistery! What an experience you’re about to have! Ahben Atum Ahben

(Sings)

SINCE ONCE I HAD MY OWN DAY IN THE SKY Takayah Entayah Ah Entayah

Tifentah

I SAY EVERYONE DESERVES THE CHANCE TO FLY! Ahben Tahkay Ah

(CHISTERY starts twitching, in pain.)

ELPHABA

What is it? Is something wrong?

MORRIBLE

It’s just the transition, dearie!

ELPHABA

Chistery, are you alright?! Why can’t he answer me?!

(CHISTERY sprouts wings.)

GLINDA

You did it! You actually did it!

ELPHABA

He’s in pain! Quick, tell me how to reverse it!

MORRIBLE

You can’t!

ELPHABA

What?!

MORRIBLE

You can’t reverse a spell! Spells are irreversible! I knew it! I knew she had the power! I told you!

ELPHABA

You planned all this?

MORRIBLE

For you too, dearie! You benefit too!

WIZARD

And this is only the beginning! Look!

(He pulls a lever to reveal his caged pet monkeys, now all have wings.)

WIZARD

If this is how you do on your first time out skies the limit!

MORRIBLE

Such wingspan! Won’t they make perfect spies?

ELPHABA

Spies?

WIZARD

You’re right, that’s a harsh words. What about… scouts! That’s what they’ll be really. They’ll fly around Oz, reporting and subversive Animal activity.

ELPHABA

So it’s you. You’re behind it all.

WIZARD

Elphaba, when I first got here there was discourt and discontent, and where I come from everyone knows that the best way to bring folks together is to give them a really good enemy.

ELPHABA

You can’t read this book at all, can you? That’s why you need an enemy and spies and cages! You have no real power!

WIZARD

Exactly. And that’s why I need you. Don’t you see? The world’s your oyster now! You have so many opportunities ahead of you! You both do!

GLINDA

Oh thank you, Your Ozness!

WIZARD

THE TWO OF YOU

IT’S TIME I RAISED YOU HIGH

YES!

THE TIME HAD COME FOR YOU

TO HAVE THE CHANCE TO—

ELPHABA

No!!!

(ELPHABA grabs The Grimmerie and runs from the room.)

MORRIBLE

Elphaba!

GLINDA

Elphie, wait! I’m sorry, Your Oznees. I’ll get her back. Elphie!

(GLINDA goes after her.)

WIZARD

We’ve got to get her back! She’s knows too much!

MORRIBLE

Don’t worry, You Ozness! I’ll handle it!

(MADAME MORRIBLE leaves.)

OZ HEAD

Guards! Guards!

(The PALACE GUARDS enter.)

OZ HEAD

There’s a fugitive at arms in the palace! Find her! Capture her! Bring her to me!

GUARDS

Yes, Your Ozness!

(They march out.)

SCENE 14

(The girls have fled to the upmost turret of the Wizard’s Pakace.)

GLINDA

Elphie, wait! Where are you going?!

ELPHABA

Oh no! There are no more stairs!

GLINDA

Elphaba, listen to me!

ELPHABA

The guards are coming up! We have to barricade the door!

GLINDA

What?!

ELPHABA

I’ll use this!

(ELPHABA blockades the door shut with an old broom.)

GLINDA

Why couldn’t you have just stayed calm, for once! Instead of flying off the handle!

(Sings)

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY HOW YOU

HURT YOUR CAUSE FOREVER

I HOPE YOU THINK YOU’RE CLEVER

ELPHABA

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY TOO

I HOPE YOU’RE PROUD HOW YOU

WOULD GROVEL IN SUBMISSION

TO FEED YOUR OWN AMBITION

BOTH

SO THOUGH I CAN’T IMAGINE HOW

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY RIGHT NOW…

MORRIBLE’S VOICE

Citizens of Oz, there is an enemy who must be found and captured! Believe nothing she says, she is evil! Responsible for the mutilation of these poor, innocent monkeys!

GLINDA

Oh no.

MORRIBLE’S VOICE

Her green skin is but an outward manifestorium of her twisted nature! This distortion! This repulsion!! This Wicked Witch!!!

GLINDA

Don’t be afraid.

ELPHABA

I’m not. It’s the Wizard who should be afraid… of me!

GLINDA

Elphie, listen to me. Just say you’re sorry. Before it’s too late…

(Sings)

YOU CAN STILL BE WITH THE WIZARD

WHAT YOU’VE WORKED AND WAITED FOR

YOU CAN HAVE ALL YOU’VE EVER WANTED…

ELPHABA

I know—

(Sings)

BUT I DON’T WANT I—

NO—I CAN’T WANT IT

ANYMORE…

SOMETHING HAS CHANGED WITHIN ME

SOMETHING IS NOT THE SAME

I’M THROUGH WITH PLAYIING BY THE RULES

OF SOMEONE ELSE’S GAME

TOO LATE FOR SECOND GUESSING

TOO LATE TO GO BACK TO SLEEP

IT’S TIME TO TRUST MY INSTINCTS

CLOSE MY EYES AND LEAP

IT’S TIME TO TRY

DEFYING GRAVITY

I THINK I’LL TRY

DEFYING GRAVITY

AND YOU CAN’T PULL ME DOWN…

GLINDA

CAN’T I MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND, YOU’RE

HAVING DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR…?

ELPHABA

I’M THROUGH ACCEPTING LIMITS

‘CAUSE SOMEONE SAYS THEY’RE SO

SOME THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE

BUT TIL I TRY, I’LL NEVER KNOW

TOO LONG I’VE BEEN AFRAID OF

LOSING LOVE I GUESS I’VE LOST

WELL, IF THAT’S LOVE

IT COMES AT MUCH TOO HIGH A COST

I’D SOONER BUY

DEFYING GRAVITY

KISS ME GOODBYE

I’M DEFYING GRAVITY

AND YOU CAN’T PULL ME DOWN…

GUARDS’ VOICE

Open this door! In the name of His Supreme Ozness!

GLINDA ELPHABA

What are you doing?! Ah May

That’s what started all of this in the first place! Ah Tay Ah

That hideous levitation spell! Tum Ditum

Stop!!!

GLINDA

Well? Where are your wings? Maybe you’re not as powerful as you think you are.

(The old broom levitates over to ELPHABA.)

GLINDA

Sweet Oz!

ELPHABA

I told you, Glinda! Didn’t I tell you!

GUARDS’ VOICE

Bash it in! Fetch the battering ramikin!

ELPHABA

Quick get on!

GLINDA

What?!

ELPHABA

Come with me. Think of what we can do… together.

(Sings)

UNLIMITED

TOGETHER WE’RE UNLIMITED

TOGETHER WE’LL BE THE GREATEST TEAM

THERE’S EVER BEEN

GLINDA—

DREAMS THE WAY WE PLANNED ‘EM…

GLINDA

IF WE WORK IN TANDEM…

BOTH

THERE’S NO FIGHT WE CANNOT WIN

JUST YOU AND I

DEFYIING GRAVITY

WITH YOU AND I

DEFYING GRAVITY

ELPHABA

THEY’LL NEVER BRING US DOWN…

Well? Are you coming?

(The answer is no, but GLINDA can’t bring herself to say it. Instead, she gets an old blanket from a shelf and wrps it around ELPHABA’S shoulders.)

GLINDA

Elphie, you’re trembling. Here… put this around you.

(Sings)

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY

NOW THAT YOU’RE CHOOSING THIS…

ELPHABA

YOU TOO—

I HOPE IT BRINGS YOU BLISS

BOTH

I REALLY HOPE YOU GET IT

AND YOU DON’T LIVE TO REGRET IT

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY IN THE END

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY, MY FRIEND…

(The PALACE GUARDS burst in, their muskets drawn.)

GUARD

There she is! Don’t let her get away!

GLINDA

Leave me alone, you hear! Let go of me!

ELPHABA

It’s not her! She has nothing to do with it! I’m the one you want! It’s me!

GLINDA

Elphie!

ELPHABA

It’s meee!

(ELPHABA rides her enchanted broom skyward.)

ELPHABA

SO IF YOU CARE TO FIND ME

LOOK TO THE WESTERN SKY

AS SOMEONE TOLD ME LATELY:

“EV’RYONE DESERVES THE CHANCE TO FLY”

AND IF I’M FLYING SOLO

AT LEAST I’M FLYING FREE

TO THOSE WHO’D GROUND ME

TAKE A MESSAGE BACK FROM ME:

TELL THEM HOW I

AM DEFYING GRAVITY

I’M FLYING HIGH

DEFYING GRAVITY

AND SOON I’LL MATCH THEM IN RENOWN

AND NOBODY IN ALL OF OZ

NO WIZARD THAT THERE IS OR WAS

IS EVER GONNA BRING ME DOWN!

GLINDA

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY!

CITIZENS OF OZ

LOOK AT HER, SHE’S WICKED!

GET HER!

ELPHABA

BRING ME DOWN!

CITIZENS OF OZ

NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED

SO WE’VE GOT TO BRING HER…

ELPHABA

AHHHH!

CITIZENS OF OZ

DOWN!

END ACT 1

Act 2

SCENE 1

(Time has passed, and the Land of Oz is filled with fear.)

CITIZENS OF OZ

EV’RY DAY, MORE WICKED!

EV’RY DAY, THE TERROR GROWS!

ALL OF OZ IS EVER ON ALERT!

THAT’S THE WAY WITH WICKED—

SPREADING FEAR

WHERE E’ER SHE GOES

SEEKING OUT NEW VICTIMS SHE CAN HURT!

A HYSTERICAL WOMAN

LIKE SOME TERRIBLE GREEN BLIZZARD

THROUGHOUT THE LAND SHE FLIES…

AN OUTRAGED MAN

DEFAMING OUR POOR WIZARD

WITH HER CALUMNIES AND LIES!

ALL

SHE LIES!

SAVE US FROM THE WICKED!

SHIELD US SO WE WON’T BE HEXED!

GIVE US WARNING: WHERE WILL SHE STRIKE NEXT?

WHERE WILL SHE STRIKE NEXT?

WHERE WILL SHE STRIKE—

NEXT!?

(Outside the Wizard’s palace, MADAME MORRIBLE and FIYERO look on as a well-turned-out GLINDA addresses an adoring CROWD.)

GLINDA

Fellow Ozians—as terrifying as terror is, let us put aside our panic for this one day… and celebrate!

(Sings)

OH WHAT A CELEBRATION

WE’LL HAVE TODAY

CROWD

THANK GOODNESS!

GLINDA

LET’S HAVE A CELEBRATION

THE GLINDA WAY…

CROWD

THANK GOODNESS!

MORRIBLE

FIN’LLY A DAY THAT'S

TOTALLY WICKED-WITCH-FREE!

CROWD

WE COULDN’T BE HAPPIER

THANK GOODNESS!

(MADAME MORRIBLE turns to GLINDA and FIYERO, who’s been named the new Captain of the Guard.)

MORRIBLE

And thank goodness for you, Glinda! And for your handsome swan, our new Captain of the Guard! You’ve been the forefront of the hunt for the Wicked Witch, haven’t you Captain?

FIYERO

Actually, I don’t think of her as a Wicked Witch—

MORRIBLE

So Captain, how does it feel?

FIYERO

Frustrating, but I became the Captain of the Guard to find her and I will not rest—

MORRIBLE

No, being engaged!

CROWD

Congratulotions!

FIYERO

This is an engagement party?

GLINDA

Surprised?

FIYERO

Yes!

GLINDA

Oh, good! We hoped you’d be—the Wizard and I!

(Sings)

WE COULDN’T BE HAPPIER

RIGHT, DEAR?

COULDN’T BE HAPPIER

RIGHT HERE, LOOK WHAT WE’VE GOT:

A FAIRY-TALE PLOT

OUR VERY OWN HAPPY ENDING

WHERE WE COULDN’T BE HAPPIER

TRUE, DEAR?

COULDN’T BE HAPPIER

AND WE’RE HAPPY TO SHARE

OUR ENDING VICARIOUSLY

WITH ALL OF YOU

HE COULDN’T LOOK HANDSOMER

I COULDN’T FEEL HUMBLER

WE COULDN’T BE HAPPIER

BECAUSE HAPPY IS WHAT HAPPENS

WHEN ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE!

MORRIBLE

And Glinda dear, we are happy for you! As Press Secretary, I’ve striven to ensure that all of Oz knows the story of your braverism! How vividly I remember…

(Sings)

THE DAY YOU WERE FIRST SUMMONED

TO AN AUDIENCE WITH OZ

AND ALTHOUGH HE WOULD NOT TELL YOU WHY INITIALLY

WHEN YOU BOWED BEFORE HIS THRONE

HE DECREED YOU’D HENCE BE KNOWN

AS GLINDA THE GOOD—OFFICIALLY!

FIYERO

That’s not how you described it to me!

GLINDA

Well, no, not exactly, but we’ll talk about that later.

MORRIBLE

THEN WITH A JEALOUS SQUEAL

THE WICKED WITCH BURST FROM CONCEALMENT

WHERE SHE HAD BEEN LURKING—SURREPTITIALLY!

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