How an evil character becomes the tin man in Oz’s wizard

Massive, massive Spoilers for act 2 of the Broadway musical “Wicked”, which is adapting to “Evil: for good”, remains ahead! Stop reading if you want Avoid spoilers!

In the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy Gale by Judy Garland is flanked by three companions while traveling along the yellow brick path to meet the Wizard of Oz (four, if you tell her loyal puppy Toto, who traveled with her from her from Kansas to Oz). These friends and protectors are known as the cowardly lion (Bert Lahr), the scarecard (Ray Bolger) and the tin man (Jack Haley), and while Dorothy wants to ask the magician to send him to his house, to the lion, the scarecrow And Tin Man has his own agendas. The lion wants to ask for courage, the scarecrow would really love a brain, and as for the tin man, he simply wants a heart that works.

You are probably familiar with these characters because, well, “The Wizard of Oz” is one of the most famous films of all time … but how does the man of Hol have in “Wicked”, the epic of Jon M. Chu ? Part of adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name? (While “The Wizard of Oz” obviously takes into account the story of “Wicked”, I must clarify that the musical really relies on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” that is darker. A character that we have already met in “Wicked: part one” will actually become the tin man, and it is a tragic story, so this is what to see when the second “wicked” film “, Wicked: for good”, Go out later this year.

When we find Boq in “Wicked: Part Uno”, we immediately realize that it comes from Munchkinland, largely because it has to be in a stack of books at the University of Shiz to meet its romantic rival prince fiyero tigelaar (Jonathan Bailey) In the eyes, and is played by Ethan Slater, an actor known for his papers in Broadway shows as “The Sponbob Musical” and “Spamalot”. (These days, Slater is also Known for his ongoing relationship in real life with Ariana Grande-Butra, who plays Galinda Upland in “Wicked” and received a nomination for the Academy Award for his support role). Whoever reposes to the point where she continues to forget her name (she calls him “Bick”, as, many times). When Galinda solves this, she cunning tells Boq that she should ask Nessarose Thropp (Marissa Bode), the younger sister of the unpopular student of Shiz Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo, who also He scored an Oscar assent in the main category), leaving Galinda Libre to continue Romance Fiyero.

Boq seems to understand, at a certain level, that Galinda is providing Nessarose as a distraction, but does not mean that it is cruel to Nessarose; In fact, he is his appointment when a lot of Shiz students sneak out to dance in Stardust’s dance hall, and he is very sincerely assured that he had a good time. Unfortunately, BOQ connection with Nessarose is ultimately its fall, and helps explain how it becomes the tin man.

Nessarose really loves Boq, but the way he shows it in the second act of the musical “evil” is frankly, Not great. At the end of the first act of the musical (which we have already seen on the screen in “Wicked: Part Uno”), Elphaba escapes from the Esmeralda city under coercion just after discovering that the dean of sorcery of the University of Shiz Morrible (Michelle Yeoh) and the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum) are in Cahohots and evil fraud. While Elphaba escapes, he sings the closer exhibition act “challenging gravity”, with his best friend, who is now designing his name as “glind”, while seeking to leave Oz and avoid persecution, and when the movie closes the movie. , We see Madame Morrible Stage a complete public relations campaign that declares that Elphaba is an enemy of everything good in Oz. While Nesssarose and she and the governor of Elphaba Tropp (Andy Nyman) listen to his announcement, Governor Thropp Collapse, and in act 2 of the musical, we learned that he died (presumably of shock).

When Nessarose takes control of Munchkinland as governor (instead of his father), he becomes a tyrannical leader, which is particularly bad news for Boq, which ends up trapped on earth and facing a civil rights crisis because Nessarose wants to cling To the man who loves so much. When Elphaba appears to try to reason with his sister, things go from bad to worse, especially with regard to BOQ.

When he discovers that his sister has become a cruel ruler of Munchkinland (and that his love for Boq has become toxic), Elphaba tries to do something kind for his sister, but it is completely fails. We see, in “Wicked: Part Uno”, that Elphaba’s mother and Nessarose hair (Courtney Mae-Briggs) left a couple of silver shoes, and Elphababa loves them, turning them in Rubí red in the process, to help Nessarose to walk without the help of your wheelchair. It is extremely important to take into account here that, on stage, Nessarose is typically played by a healthy actor, but Marissa Bode is the first wheelchair user to play paper. In September 2024, Bode indicated Variety That this particular moment is different in the second “evil” film, declaring “, issuing authentically and showing a authentic disabled person is very important, but it is also very important. as They show us. I am very happy with the changes that have been made, sure. “

Nobody besides Bode and Jon M. Chu know how this will change in “Evil: Forever”, but the point in the musical is that Boq, seeing to walk to Nessarose, decides abruptly that he no longer “needs it” and tries to go to be With glind. In an anger, Nessarose launches a spell that is supposed to keep Boq with her focusing on her heart, but all she ends up doing is reducing her heart because she belongs to Glinda. To save his life, Elphaba launches his own spell, turning Boq into the tin man (so that he no longer requires a heart to stay alive).

Boq appears in the original 1900 Book of L. Frank Baum “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and in Gregory Maguire “Wicked”, but when Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman adapted to the latter for the stage, they decided to make a great Change: it became a “compound character”, which means that they combined the story of Boq with that of the man’s man to give his narration a more dramatic weight. (Boq is actually a very rich citizen of Munchkinland in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and even allows Dorothy and Toto to remain in their huge home during their adventure). In addition, in the books, The Tin Woodman is a character named Nick Chopper, but all this changes in the musical “evil”, making Boq a much more tragic character. (At least he is not alone: ​​Fijero becomes his yellow brick roadmate, the scarecrow).

In “Wicked: Part Uno”, are Given a considerable clue with respect to the future of Boq, his last name is “Woodsman”, which is a fairly clear reference to the character of L. Frank Baum known as the “tin mother”. After becoming the tin man, Boq, in the musical, is imbued with anger and desperate to take revenge against Elphaba, happily unconscious that the spell that transformed him really saved his life; In the musical number “March of the Witch Hunters”, Boq as the tin man brings together the citizens of Oz to hunt the so -called “Western Witch of the West” and destroy it forever. If “Wicked: For Good” follows the musical as faithfully as “Wicked: Part a” did it, we will see the turn of the Boq heel when it comes out on November 21, 2025; As for the first film, it is available to rent or buy on digital platforms now.