Laura Brodnik

When a good idea meets flawed execution.

There's a ripple of excited energy in the air at any premiere, but last week at the Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs, that energy quickly tripled.

"I need to tell you what happened in that purple covered cake room."

They have changed for the better.

If someone had asked me to write down the most indulgent holiday experience I could ever imagine, my dream journal entry would have included a luxury hotel with an ocean view.

There was never any guarantee that Wicked would be good. Yes, from the outset, the deck seemed quite stacked in the movie's favour.

'In all my years doing film junkets I have never seen this before.'

The story won't go away.

Now this is magic.

I can easily count the number of times I've left an unfinished glass of champagne on the table because I was laughing too hard to drink it.