Parodies like that are nothing new, and Wicked (stage musical) has been around for a while. You're not supposed to take it seriously. Hell, the magic shoes "allowed her paraplegic sister to walk again," and the jock at the center of a love triangle between Galinda and Elphaba is the guy that becomes The Scarecrow. Also, her death by water was faked.

That said, I'm not saying give this the benefit of a doubt. It's modern Hollywood, fuck them.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but wasn't Idina Menzel well-known for the Broadway production of Wicked as Elphaba before Frozen was even a thing?

With the wiz it's obvious what you get. A ghettofication of a timeless story. Just another "remix" of someone else's work.

This, however, is trying to subvert the same story and pretend its superior because it's "updated for modern audiences" (ie anyone except White people)

Representation is blaxploitation by another name.

The black actress is a form of 'oppression coding' to make the audience more sympathetic to the new perspective of the wicked witch as the 'victim', but in reality they ended up 'coding' her as a loud and obnoxious SJW stereotype of the racist 'bossy black lady' variety, that we all now associate with 'current thing black females'.

"Great googly moogly Sharon, how long were you working on this lady's makeup? It's positively hideous and ghastly."

"I barely started, this is just the base paint color before we start adding the prosthetics."

"It's already perfect, don't change a thing!"