Elphaba Singing 'I'm Not That Girl' While Fiyero Still Looks Back For Her.

Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero in WICKED (Part 1)

Cynthia Erivo as ELPHABA THROPP Wicked (2024), dir. Jon M. Chu

Elphaba + poppies

WICKED: PART ONE (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu

What is Elphaba and Fiyero favourite date night activity?

(This made me want to do a quick little sketch 🙈)

Elphaba and Fiyero never really got the chance to have a date night while Fiyero was human. His new straw form makes some (albeit cliché) date night ideas a little impossible. A romantic, candlelight dinner for example. Already being a romantic in every day life makes it even more difficult for him to think of a date night idea that feels truly special.

However, there’s one thing he found that seems to make them both feel the exact intimacy and warmth of their relationship.

Stargazing

Every important, vulnerable moment of their relationship happened under the stars. It’s under the light and watch of the stars that allows them the peace of being themselves - together.

JONATHAN BAILEY as FIYERO Wicked Part 1 (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu

WICKED (2024)

Jonathan Bailey behind the scenes of WICKED

My favourite thing that I love about Elphaba and Fiyero ending up together in Wicked is that you have Elphaba, who has spent her entire life believing that she's too different, sometimes too intense, too much to be loved because she is not this 'perfect' example of society's standards, and Fiyero, who hides behind detachment and his performative charm because he's only ever really been seen as a prize, a prince to be won, where he's internalised this view that to him love isn't real because he's never felt it, in the way he now does with Elphaba ("the boy who was certain, love isn't real" - Jonathan Bailey ALSO said something similar).

In these two people, they both see each other under the defensive barriers they have born learned to put up. Neither of them have turned away from each other because of their imperfections, they're drawn to each other because of them.

"I see you exactly as you are, with all the parts you've tried to hide for so long, and I'm staying anyway."

I do think some of their relationship has to be imagined, it's not the main focus of the musical of course, but it's so important to both characters. There has to be some level of imagination, remembering that they would clearly spend time together, inside and outside of classes (looking at you, film friendship montage).

Aside from the tragedy that happens, around them and to them, I guess my point here is that it gives me a lot of hope (in some weird way I guess haha). Their relationship is not perfect, it's not supposed to be, but for someone to love you exactly as you are, to see you for who you are and love you wholeheartedly anyway, is a gift, and I hope I can find that too one day.

First Look at CYNTHIA ERIVO as ELPHABA THROPP in WICKED: FOR GOOD (2025)

It's me. It's me!