Some of these deleted scenes were fine to cut. One includes Grande's character, Glinda the Good Witch, meeting her cronies Pfannee and ShenShen... While it's nice to give those characters a little more screen time, they're mostly bit players in the grand scheme of things.
The deleted scene "Elphaba's Promise" is only two minutes long but adds a great deal to the characters' complicated relationship. This small interaction between the two as they study magic addresses the weird lack of acknowledging the point earlier in the film when Elphaba slips away with Glinda's boyfriend Fiyero to save a captured lion cub.
With the film being two hours and 40 minutes long, fans are asking if it would really have been so bad if the film had been a few minutes longer.
Elphaba and Glinda's friendship is the lifeblood of both the film and stage versions of , and while there's a lot of time spent on their enemies-to-friends arc, a few gaps could've been filled.
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