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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.”

If, like millions of people, you’ve seen the stage musical, you know the rest.

Before playing “Not Like Us” — he played it twice — the stage went black, a green smoke appeared and the memorable “I See Dead People” scene from M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Sixth Sense” played over the speakers.

Before leaving the stage, Badu put her hands in a prayer position and told the crowd, “Thank you so much for loving my brother.”

The film is an adaptation of the stage musical which tells the origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz.