“What’s to discuss, old friend?” The long-awaited proshot of “Merrily We Roll Along,” a classic Stephen Sondheim musical, is bringing a big buzz in the Broadway community. The four-time Tony winning revival from the 2023-24 Broadway season released the professional recording Dec. 5. The musical's material was consistent, but the proshot lacked in its cinematic elements. 

“Wicked: For Good,” the long-awaited second act of “Wicked,” hit theaters on Nov. 21 with a bang. The movie brought in $150 million in the U.S. for its opening weekend. Many new elements were introduced in this movie with surprising artistic choices involving lyrical changes and plot changes, making this goodbye to the “Wicked” movies quite memorable. 

“Mean Girls” (2024) delights in all the expected ways, and doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel. It occasionally lacks energy, and only Rapp’s solos are capable of going toe-to-toe with the Broadway cast recording, but it doesn’t disappoint as a happy median between its predecessors. Each version of Mean Girls is relevant to the time in which it came out, and this iteration delivers the same wit that fans have loved for 20 years. It’s fetch!