As it turns out, “Wicked” is not too big to fail. In fact, it may be all the excess baggage that weighs down the second installment, making it impossible for the sequel “Wicked: For Good” to defy gravity.

Though the first part “Wicked” did take its sweet time to achieve liftoff, while building out a world that came from over a century of storytelling (plus revising and revisiting), starting with Frank L. Baum’s 1900 fantasy novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” the 1939 film adaptation “The Wizard of Oz,” starring Judy Garland, Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” and the Tony-winning blockbuster Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman adapted from that. Copy article link Sign up for our

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