Jonathan Bailey In 'Wicked: Singing Live'

Wicked dir. Jon M. Chu | 2024

It's me. It's me!

The specific word choice in the refrain being "as long as you're mine" works so well because you really can feel that these are two characters who have been forced apart for years finally getting to be together and express their emotions verbally and physically.

You can feel Elphaba's joy and relief that, after all the heartbreak and rejection she's been through, she is able to say that the person she loves is hers and have him say that she's his. To have him make it clear that that's all he wants too. That they finally get to belong to each other, not in terms of ownership or control, but I'm terms of finally being at a place where they can give and recieve love freely and take care of each other as seen when they both end up saving the other's life later.

Andrew Burnap in Disney’s Snow White (2025)

ELPHABA & FIYERO in WICKED: PART 1 dir. Jon M. Chu, 2024

i think the wicked fandom as a whole discounts fiyeraba far too much in favor of gelphie.

this isn’t to hate on gelphie at all, i personally don’t ship them and i hc glinda as aromantic, but i respect the ship and i see where people are coming from. however, said people (from what i’ve seen) tend to ignore all of what makes fiyeraba so good and ship gelphie instead.

fiyero, the prince, chose elphaba over everything. his status, glinda, etc., all for this green-skinned girl who the wizard and everyone else is framing as a villain. who he never looked at any differently because of her skin color, who he never saw as anything but who she was.

glinda does love elphaba, but she would never sacrifice all that fiyero did. glinda cares too much about how other people see her to be able to choose elphaba, which is why they never would have worked. their priorities are far too different, but fiyero fits with elphaba perfectly.

CATCHING FIRE (2013), dir. Francis Lawrence

CYNTHIA ERIVO AS ELPHABA THROPP WICKED: PART ONE (2024) dir. John M. Chu

Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero in 'Wicked: Meet Fiyero' Featurette [x]