A group of merchants and vikings navigate dramatic events both within and without in this epic musical based on the Icelandic Vinland sagas. As secrets are exposed, two women (Freydís and Gudrid) have a reckoning.
After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and performed in their original settings. Added to the Rodgers and Hammerstein score was "Loneliness of Evening", which had been composed for South Pacific but not used.
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that doesn't realize the need for social reform. The Prince of Wales, later to become Britain's King Edward VII, provides comic relief. Rudolf finds refuge from a loveless marriage with Princess Stéphanie by taking a mistress, Baroness Maria Vetsera. Their untimely demise at Mayerling, the imperial family's hunting lodge, is cloaked in mystery.
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Elphaba ile Glinda, öğrenciyken tanışırlar. Muhteşem Oz Büyücüsü ile karşılaşmalarının ardından dostlukları ve hayatları çok farklı yollara sapar. Glinda’nın popülerliğe olan arzusu onu kışkırtır ve baştan çıkarırken, Elphaba’nın kendine sadık kalma kararlılığı, geleceği üzerinde şoke edici sonuçlar doğuracaktır. Oz’da yaşadıkları olağanüstü maceraları, sonunda “İyi Glinda” ve “Batı’nın Kötü Cadısı” olarak yazgılarını tamamlamalarını sağlar.
Animasyon klasiğinin 30. yıldönümü şerefine, bu animasyon ve canlı aksiyon karışımı özel film, hayranların en sevdiği filmin yanı sıra klasik hikâyeden esinlenen yeni müzikal performanslar, setler ve kostümler sergilemektedir.