The following post contains minor SPOILERS for Wicked.I assume youre reading this because you want to know how the film compares to the Broadway show. If you dont,youre about to haveone short day in the Emerald City.In some ways, theWickedmovieis one of the most faithful adaptations of a hit Broadway musical. It features all of the showsbest-knownsongs, including Defying Gravity, The Wizard and I, and Popular. All of the shows characters appear in their familiar roles. Even some of the dialogue is repeated verbatim on the big screen.In other ways, it is drastically different from the play. Has any movie musical based on a stage play ever adaptedjusthalf of the original show before? Thats the case here.As the dad of two deeply obsessedWickedgirls (and the husband of aWickedobsessed wife who got the kids hooked on the show in the first place) Im extremely familiar with BroadwaysWicked.In fact, I saw it for the third time for my daughters birthday less than a month ago. Alsomy family has listened to theWicked soundtrack approximately 38,000 times, and my daughters perform their favorite numbers nightly in our living room. (Theyre actually getting pretty good at Loathing. Please dont tell them I said that, it will only encourage them.)Long story short: Ive got a pretty good handle on the differences between the twoWickeds. There are other minor changes. (Defying Gravity is extended with a lot of additional dialogue between the verses, for example.), but these are the big ones.The Differences Between the Wicked Movie and ShowThe Wicked movie is faithful to the long-running Broadway show but it does make a few significant changes to its source material.READ MORE: The Best Movie Musicals For People Who Hate MusicalsGet our free mobile appFamous Movies Featuring Once-Beloved Products That No Longer ExistThese movies now work as time capsules, capturing a time when these now-defunct products existed.