The 12 biggest easter eggs in the Wicked movie that will blow your stripy witch socks off

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Wicked smashed the box office last weekend and proved to all regular people that musicals are the best thing to ever bless this earth. If you’re a hardcore Wicked fan, you might have spotted a few easter eggs that point to the original show, the novel and The Wizard of Oz movie. Here are all the wild easter eggs you missed from the Wicked movie. Let’s see how well you were paying attention!

1. Glinda’s ruby slippers in Popular

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You might have missed this very quick and blurry moment in Popular where Glinda gives Elphaba a pair of ruby red slippers, which is one of the most obvious easter eggs in the whole of Wicked. She even clicks the heels just like Dorothy did!

2. The twisted silver shoes

Why were the ruby slippers in the film red? It’s because the movie Wizard of Oz changed them to ruby to show off their technicolor capabilities in the 1930s. But, they’re silver in the original L. Frank Baum Wizard of Oz book series.

3. There’s a Bridgerton crossover

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Jonathan Bailey, who plays Fiyero in the film, rode on a horse that’s the same as the one he used in Bridgerton. I l like to think they emotionally bonded and now he won’t work with any other horse.

4. Dorothy and the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion’s cameo

It couldn’t really get more on the nose than putting those four walking down the yellow brick road in the film. What a foreshadow!

5. The chickens playing the piano

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The chickens playing the piano was super random but it’s actually a tribute to the writer of The Wizard Of Oz, L Frank Baum who bred show chickens.

“We used fancy chickens playing the piano, this kind of weird Ozian piano in the Ozdesk Ballroom,” Chu told the Radio Times. “We wanted to reference as much as that… we wanted to use animals from those books, and the design sort of look from those drawings. And so we infuse some of that throughout.”

6. Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth’s cameo

We can’t talk about easter eggs without talking about the original Wicked Broadway stars Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth featuring in the movie, with their own musical number, One Short Day. Idina even did her original Defying Gravity riff. ICONIC.

7. The original 1939 Universal logo throwback

If you were you paying attention to the very beginning of the film, you might have noticed the original 1939 Universal logo which featured in The Wizard of Oz. Fascinating!

8. Children singing ‘ding dong, the witch is dead’ in No One Mourns The Wicked

The children in Munchkinland are singing a tune that they sing in The Wizard of Oz when the wicked witch of the West dies. Spooky foreshadowing.

9. Somewhere over the rainbow can be heard playing in The Wizard and I

That’s right, if you listen carefully in The Wizard of I, the orchestra played the tune of Somewhere Over the Rainbow while Elphaba ran through a rainbow field, with a rainbow in the sky. Not subtle at all.

10. Nessarose’s stripy socks

Elphaba’s sister Nessarose had on striped socks, reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz where the wicked witch of the East’s stripy socks were peeking out from under Dorothy’s house.

11. There’s sort of a flying house, just like Dorothy’s

In Wicked, the Wizard picks up a wooden house and throws it in the air in the movie, just like Dorothy’s home in the 1939 film.

12. Wicked cameos galore!

Alice Fearn, who played Elphaba in the Broadway Wicked musical throughout the 2010s, played Glinda’s mother. Winnie Holzman, who wrote the book of the Wicked musical, also appears in the film.

That’s not all either. Stephen Schwartz, the Wicked musical lyricist, was briefly visible as a guard through a peephole. Michael Rose, who played Fiyero in the Broadway show, is the lead male vocals on One Short Day. It’s a real tribute to the original show.

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