{"id":20147,"date":"2025-11-21T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/?p=20147"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:17:29","slug":"wicked-little-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2025\/11\/21\/wicked-little-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Little Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Brace yourself for a very deep, very nerdy musical theatre cut.

I was walking the dog at lunchtime, listening to the Wicked <\/em>soundtrack because we’re going to the movies with our son and his (wonderful) theatre-kid girlfriend tonight and I needed a refresher on the story.

In the song “What is This Feeling?” the lyrics describe Elphaba thusly:
“She\u2019s a terror,
she\u2019s a tartar…”<\/strong>

Wait a second, why did that sound familiar?

In high school, I was an usher at the Confederation Centre of the Arts here in Prince Edward Island, and as a result saw the show Anne of Green Gables: The Musical<\/em> so many times that the lyrics got written into my DNA.

Sure enough, in the song “Did You Hear?”, Anne is described as such:
“She’s a terror!
She’s a tartar!”<\/strong>

Can this be? Is this a knowing callback from the creators of Wicked <\/em>to an earlier strong-willed, misunderstood female character? I can’t believe this is an accident.

Okay, I promise to say something meaningfully on-topic sometime soon, but this stupid factoid set my ADHD brain on fire and I couldn’t be alone with it.

Anne: “Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn\u2019t mean to be wicked. It\u2019s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn\u2019t it?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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