MADAME MORRIBLE

Oh, Miss Elphaba.

Many years I have waited

For a gift like yours to appear.

Why, I predict the Wizard could make you his Magic Grand Vizier!

ELPHABA
The Wizard?

MADAME MORRIBLE

My dear, My dear.

I'll write at once to the Wizard.

Tell him of you in advance.

With a talent like yours dear, there is

A Defin-ish chance. If you work as you should,

You'll be making good.

GALINDA (Pushing desperately against the door.)

Madame Morrible?

MADAME MORRIBLE walks out and pushes GALINDA aside, making room for NESSAROSE's chair as MADAME MORRIBLE and NESSAROSE leave to MADAME MORRIBLE's bedroom suite, closing the door behind them.

MADAME MORRIBLE

Not now, dear.

GROMMETIK wheels over and makes an ineffective guard.

GALINDA

Something's wrong. I didn't get my way. I need to go lie down.

ELPHABA falls back against her chair, and looks at the wall as if looking past it. She crosses her arms and thinks, her mouth hanging slightly.

ELPHABA

Did that really just happen?

Have I actually understood?

(She examines her hands.)

This weird quirk I've tried to suppress or hide

(She looks up determinedly.)

Is a talent that could

Help me meet the Wizard

If I make good.

(Standing.)

So I'll make good!

ELPHABA proceeds to leave her chair and go to the door, grabbing her suitcase. She exits, standing back in the Entrance Hall. She looks around with a grin and then continues.

ELPHABA

When I meet the Wizard…

ELPHABA plants her suitcase on the ground and sticks out her hand, shaking air.

ELPHABA

Once I prove my worth,

And then I meet the wizard:

What I've waited for since—

Since birth!

And with all his wizard wisdom,

ELPHABA catches a glimpse of herself in a floor to ceiling mirror against one wall, and rubs her hand over her emerald complexion.

ELPHABA

By my looks…

ELPHABA puts back on her determined face.

ELPHABA

He won't be blinded!

Do you think the Wizard is dumb?

Or like Munchkins…

So small-minded?

No!

He'll say to me,

"I see who you truly are:

A girl on whom I can rely."

And that's how we'll begin,

The Wizard and I!

ELPHABA grabs her suitcase again and marches straight out the front doors, her smile larger, her heart aflutter with excitement.

Shiz University's grounds are beautiful. ELPHABA stands outside of a large gothic building with ivy trailing across much of the walls. The windows are curved except for their pointed tops, and a large, circular, stained glass window brings colored sunlight into the Entrance Hall. There are other buildings behind this dormitory, but they are likely not seen in any of the first shots.

Tall, beautiful rose bushes race against the wall. Ahead of her, a cobblestone path runs down a large hill, and a thin but richly-colored forest lines the distant sides of the path, leaving plenty of clear view ahead towards the baby blue sky. In the center of this courtyard is a massive fountain shooting water roughly fifteen feet into the air.

ELPHABA

Once I'm with the Wizard,

My whole life will change.

'Cause once you're with the Wizard,

No one thinks you're strange.

No father is not proud of you;

ELPHABA looks up at the building.

ELPHABA

No sister acts ashamed.

And all of Oz has to love you,

When by the Wizard you're acclaimed.

And this gift or this curse

I have inside,

Maybe at last I'll know why

As we work hand in hand…

The Wizard and I!

ELPHABA sits on her upright suitcase, leaning back, and lets the sunlight drape over her. She removes her blue cap and lays it in her lap, letting her long black ponytail hang down.

ELPHABA

And one day,

He'll say to me,
"Elphaba,

A girl who is so superior…

Shouldn't a girl who's so good inside

Have a matching exterior?

And since folks here to an absurd degree

Seem fixated on your verdigris…

Would it be alright by you

If I de-green-ify you?"

ELPHABA (with modesty)

And though, of course, that's not important to me,

ELPHABA (with intense gusto)

"All right! Why not?" I'll reply.

Oh, what a pair we'll be:

The Wizard and I!

Yes, what a pair we'll be:

The Wizard and—

ELPHABA suddenly lapses into a reverie. She looks ahead, and the screen fades into what is clearly a vision. It's footage from the later song Thank Goodness. MADAME MORRIBLE has her hand on FIYERO's shoulder, and as she finishes speaking she throws her hand into the air and an entire crowd moves in excitement. The audio is still the music of The Wizard and I, and as ELPHABA cuts back in, we return to her. She is holding her head, and her face is in an exhausted daze.

ELPHABA

Unlimited…

My future is unlimited.

And I've just had a vision almost like a prophecy—

I know,

It sounds truly crazy. And true,

The vision's hazy,

But I swear, someday there'll be

A celebration throughout Oz

That's all to do with me!

ELPHABA stands up, snatching her bag and runs forward to the fountain, though she keeps her distance from the firing water.

ELPHABA (with the greatest energy feasible)

And I'll stand there with the Wizard,

Feeling things I've never felt,

And though I'd never show it,

ELPHABA pitches her suitcase into the fountain and it rises on top of the center jet, flying into the air like a rocket. It's tossed onto the grass, but she begins singing as it rises.

ELPHABA

I'd be so happy I could melt!

And so it will be for the rest of my life,

And I'll want nothing else till I die!

Held in such high esteem,

When people see me,

They will scream

ELPHABA raises her hands into the air and turns her head to the sky. The camera looks down at her, the fountain centered at the top of the screen, her centered at the bottom.

ELPHABA

For half of Oz's favorite team:

The Wizard…

And I!

The camera pans up, higher and higher on "I" and then fades to black as the song closes.