Philip, Bridget, and Jodi chat about musicals, film franchises, motherhood and other entertainment hopes and hangups in the ever-evolving 2024 media landscape. Will new throwback franchise installments like 'Twisters' inject some much needed life into the box office? Or will new properties like 'The Fall Guy' and 'IF' provide a sense of originality that audiences are craving? Plus some thoughts about the upcoming 'Wicked' adaptation and 'Wish' on Disney Plus. Follow The ThawedCast: Conversations About Animation: twitter.com/thawedcast and instagram.com/thawedcast.  instagram.com/jodipolasky,  instagram.com/bridget5246, instagram.com/philipehlke. Visit thawedcast.com

ThawedCast pt. 3

ThawedChat: Wicked Wishes and Film Franchise Fantasies

Just felt like doing a quick recording, and it felt like a good one!

I'm Not That Girl Cover (Wicked)

No full show this coming week due to an unforeseen change of plans (more on that next week), but we didn't want to leave you without Andy's review of the big release of this week, Wicked, which is blowing up at the box office right now.  

Enjoy this mini-episode, and we will be back as normal next week with our usual roundup of reviews, news, neat things, and chat that you've come to expect.


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Intermission: Something Wicked This Way Comes

WICKED- Defying Gravity (Male Cover)

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Wicked - Defying Gravity [2:02] | Wedding Piano

The ThawedCast celebrates the release of ‘Wicked: Part I’ from Universal Pictures, 21 years after the Broadway musical made its sparkling debut. Jodi, Lara, Bridget, and Philip discuss the new 160-minute film which concludes at the intermission point of the stage version. This ‘Wizard of Oz’ prequel began as a 1995 Gregory McQuire novel depicting a darker, more adult take on the original mythology conceived by L. Frank Baum. The film doesn’t shy away from borrowing heavily from the imagery of the seminal 1939 Judy Garland film, but it certainly provides a different take on the characters, positioning Elphaba, future Wicked Witch of the West, as the main hero of the story. Elphaba’s widowed father only grudgingly allows her to leave home in order to help care for her paraplegic younger sister, as the two enroll at the prestigious Shiz University. There, Elphaba meets Galinda, future Good Witch of the North. This iconic pair embark on a fateful rivalry that evolves heavily over the course of the film. Follow The ThawedCast: Conversations About Animation: twitter.com/thawedcast and instagram.com/thawedcast.  instagram.com/partoflarasworld,  instagram.com/bridget5246, instagram.com/philipehlke, tiktok.com/@jodipolasky47. Visit thawedcast.com

Wicked

WICKED I'm Not That Girl Cover

Wicked - For Good [2:28] | Wedding Orchestra

Wicked Defying Gravity X Aladdin A Whole New World [1:46] | Wedding Mashup

This is my marimba duet arrangement of the beautiful "Ozdust Duet" from the movie, Wicked. I only have a 4.3-octave instrument to play on, so the range is written for A2-C6 between the two parts. DM/email me for music.

"Ozdust Duet" - for two marimbas

Hello! It's be a while~~~

As a homage to the musical that really jump-started my musical theatre kid journey, here's a song I've wanted to do for the longest time. It means a lot to me personally, too, since it was the first song I had to learn for my first session of singing lessons 15 (!!!) years ago.

And ever since I ended up learning German, I of course wanted to sing it sometime in German, but alas-- no karaoke track with all the backing vocals exists. At least, until I got hit yesterday with the urge to learn and record my own backing track. I then wanted to test it out with the Elphaba and Galinda parts, and so here we are now with what is essentially a full cover, with all vocals sung by yours truly ^^; 

Hope you enjoy this one as much as I did! I'd never done a 12-layer ensemble recording before, so mixing this was a fun challenge and I'm happy with how it turned out.

Written and composed by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman. Translated into German by Michael Kunze.

All vocals (Elphaba, Galinda, and the ensemble) and editing by yours truly.

Listen to the original recording performed by Willemijn Verkaik, Lucy Scherer, and the 2007 Stuttgart cast of Wicked - Die Hexen von Oz here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3Bo2Ga2X3DSC3ymEA67TbO?si=06ec8df8fe4946a8

Backing track can be found here: https://youtu.be/Sy4xXf75HwI?si=DWREYwBgcJ0-vNi6

Was fühl' ich in mir (Full Cover)

Wicked Medley

For this week's main podcast review, Katie Johnson, Josh Parham, Lauren LaMagna & Cody Dericks join me to discuss the sequel to last year's "Wicked," titled "Wicked: For Good," starring Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum. The film adapts the second act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a reimagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and its 1939 film adaptation. Darker and more complex to bring to the big screen, Set in the Land of Oz before and during the events of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," the film explores the relationship between Elphaba and Glinda as they embrace their new identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good, with more tie-ins to "The Wizard of Oz." Following the success of last year's film, what did we think of this emotional conclusion? Please tune in as we discuss the adaptation choices, Jon M. Chu's direction, the cinematography, the musical numbers, the powerful performances from Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, its awards season chances, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy!

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"Wicked: For Good"

For  Good - 30.11.25

A young, fun show choir based in central London. 

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Rickee Vang here. I like working on song covers. Not much to compose so I cover instead haha. Hope you enjoy on the things I work on! :D

Chat, news and reviews of film related topics, brought to you each week by Andy and Lee.  With a retrospective deep-dive into an older film each week, and as many new releases that we can get around to, we pack the show with as much film related stuff as we can, as well as some general geek chat.

Hello! I'm Cati, a theatre kid and cat person who sings in her spare time, and I cover songs by artists and from shows that inspire me. Most of the covers I post are home recordings from the past few years (though I'm considering posting newer ones in the future!), both for school projects and for fun.

Thanks for stopping by~ Hope you enjoy to these songs as much as I did recreating them. ^^

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