i'm sorry but cutting the final verse of nplh was seriously a mistake. imagine how much deeper they could've gone exploring elphaba’s family dynamic... genuinely such a shame we didn't get at least this when it clearly was planned out only to get left on the cutting room floor
five years catch up montage and lamenting about her conflicted feelings on her father's passing WHICH sets up her daddy issues for elphaba to actually consider the wizard's offer in wonderful... i'm calling it now