Jonathan Bailey is Oz’s most eligible bachelor in new ‘Wicked’ teaser

For the first time, we feel…wicked.

A new teaser trailer for Wicked dropped on Monday, granting fans something their wildest dreamings could not foresee — the first lengthy glimpse of Bridgerton‘s Jonathan Bailey as the hunky love interest, Fiyero.

The teaser features a newspaper announcing that Prince Fiyero has been spotted at Shiz University as a curler-clad Glinda (Ariana Grande) yelps and prepares to put on her most swankified look to impress him. Fiyero’s arrival stirs up things at Shiz, including apparently upsetting Pfannee (Bowen Yang).

Introduced in the teaser as “Oz’s most eligible bachelor,” Fiyero woos the student body, announcing that he assumes that the “responsibility to corrupt his fellow students” falls to him. We see glimpses of a musical number and a shot of Fiyero climbing the stacks of the Shiz library (bless you, costume designer for the cut of those breeches and director Jon M. Chu for that camera angle).

Fiyero and others head to the Oz Dust ballroom (now apparently an underground club in an homage to Gregory Maguire’s novel).

Lastly, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) confronts him and calls him out, saying, “You pretend to be shallow and self-absorbed.” He offers her a biting rebuttal, noting, “Excuse me, there’s no pretense here, I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.”

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A prequel to The Wizard of Oz, Wicked tells the “true story” of Elphaba (a.k.a. the Wicked Witch of the West) during her school days when she first met popular girl, G(a)linda. The musical follows their journey from battling Shiz University roommates to unlikely friends to political enemies as the Wizard and his cronies vilify Elphaba and elevate Glinda. The two women also fall for the same guy, the aforementioned Fiyero.

With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, the musical became an instant classic. Schwartz and Holzman have adapted the script for the screen, and their original Broadway producer, Marc Platt, is also producing the film version.

 The musical is divided into two movies.

“As we prepared the production over the last year,” Chu wrote in an X (formerly Twitter) post in 2022, “it became impossible to wrestle the story of Wicked into a single film without doing some real damage to it. As we tried to cut songs or trim characters, those decisions began to feel like fatal compromises to the source material that has entertained us all for so many years. We decided to give ourselves a bigger canvas and make not just one Wicked movie but two! With more space, we can tell the story of Wicked as it was meant to be told while bringing even more depth and surprise to the journeys for these beloved characters.”

Wicked, along with Bailey’s party boy Fiyero, dances into theaters on Nov. 22.

Watch the teaser in the X social post above for more.