What a long, strange bubble ride it’s been. But the work of songwriter Stephen Schwartz on “Wicked” — the property he first discovered as a source novel and has led into Broadway and dual film iterations — has finally come to a close. (Or has it? More on his feelings about spinoffs momentarily.) He did not coast to the finish line, having come up with two new songs for “ Wicked: For Good ,” the Elphaba-sung “No Place Like Home” and Glinda’s “The Girl in the Bubble,” to make the second film in the two-parter at least as emotionally and thematically holistic as the first.

In a conversation with Variety after the new film came out of the gate with a $147 million opening weekend at the domestic box office (and $223 million globally), Schwartz said that he is still “cautiously” waiting f

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