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Dancing Through Life! When is the new Wicked movie coming out in Japan?

Mona

I thought for a sec we should "dance through life" and forget some sad aspects (Liam Payne, etc.) Nope, have never seen the musical. In fact, rewind to 2011 London - my then-friend has come up from Brighton with tickets to Wicked, without my knowledge. Being so disinterested I suggested she abandon or sell, and we later went on to eat Pizza Express at Victoria Station and hang around the giant lions at Trafalgar Square. What a mystery night out. It's one of the few actions I regret now, and I don't regret not visiting Paris despite being one train line away.

Last week when Wicked came out in the US (or at least outside of Japan), I saw at least two "anatomy of a scene" type videos on YouTube which involved a princely looking Jonathan Bailey (Fiyero) dancing through the movie/life. 

I know Jonathan Bailey got his break in Bridgerton, which I'm.. uninterested in, but have seen him in Broadchurch where he played a journalist. I do remember looking him up as he was a good looking guy. So no wonder he won over the other fellows who auditioned to play Fiyero including a pretty confident Nick Jonas and brother Joe Jonas (I feel those two are always auditioning for movie roles and never getting any parts? Their skill is mostly for being a Jonas Brother). 

Jonathan Bailey's singing is excellent too. It was the first song in a while that made me notice for it's musical quality rather than for its virality or popularity, which is probably because Stephen Schwartz wrote it. I didn't know he composed songs too because I only knew him for his lyricist work in Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Disney in the late 1990's.  

Of course great lyrics too, it might as well be a life motto: 

Dancing through life, swaying and sweeping
And always keeping cool
Life is fraughtless when you're thoughtless
Those who don't try never look foolish

Princely Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero

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