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But “Wicked” will delight fans of the stage production as a faithful adaptation that is at once playful but reverent to the iconic “Defying Gravity.”

Hill grew up in Southeast London in an eclectic and playful household with a set designer mother and an actor father.

There’s something sophisticated at work here, both pragmatic and playful.

This mother is playful, artistic, gentle, confused, unsure and loving.

As I toured the show’s playful set, with its distinctive brightly-coloured staircase, I picked up a few clues as to how the director’s despair will be reflected this time around.