1 year after wicked 1, started on Wicked 2, realizing the magic was gone without the original cast. https://growmane.blogspot.com/2025/01/lions-had-basically-memorized-wicked.html Discovering the yellow brick road was built with animal abuse changed the whole thing. A bit random for a civilization which had steam power. Trophy wife, forever without cross glasses. Cowardly lion finally showed up. They overdid the cowarding. There were some new songs not in the soundtrack. The origins of all the old songs were finally revealed but lions heard them enough to 2x them. Young lion assumed Idina was converting humans into animals, but in reality they were always animals & the antagonist schoolmaster was banishing them. Then 1 by 1, the origin of the tin man & the straw man were revealed. They were the love interests of greenie & greenie sister. Through a convoluted turn...