《魔法坏女巫：永恒》：女巫依然活力四射

LAST YEAR’S WICKED had to defy a lot more than just gravity. Jon M. Chu’s first film — which adapted the 2003 musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, which in turn adapted the 1995 book by Gregory Maguire, which itself offered an alternate history to L. Frank Baum’s 1900 The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz mythology — had to take on critics, cynics, and flying-monkey sceptics. The received wisdom goes that musicals aren’t hits in the modern era. Are theatre kids even a box-office demographic anymore? …