I'm pretty sure I found it later, around age 12 or 13, either on VHS or during one of those edited-for-TV weekend reruns. What grabbed me wasn't just the action-though the car chases alone (a world record for smashed police cars at the time) were enough to hook any pre-teenage boy. What really blew my mind was the energy that was driven by the soundtrack.
If the first Wicked centered Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), the shy outcast whose discovery of her magical powers and the sinister machinery behind the Land of Oz led to her being branded the Wicked Witch of the West, Wicked: For Good focuses intently on her opposite number and best friend, Glinda (Grande), now positioned by the powers that be as the good (but secretly powerless) witch who can keep the people happy and placated as their world slides into paranoid dictatorship.
and we still get those periodic, surreal pronouncements given by the city's notables to the diverse folk of Oz, those non-player characters crowding the streets. But now the focus narrows to the main players and their explosive romantic crises, essentially through two interlocking love triangles: Glinda the Good, Elphaba the Wicked and the Wizard and Glinda, Elphaba and Prince Fiyero, the handsome young military officer with whom both witches are not so secretly in love, as well as possibly having feelings for each other.
