I think judging from how awkwardly she took it back she was hoping for either rage or sadness from her, likely the first because these people have a politics exclusively based on Triggering the Libs.

she's talking about this like it's simply a unique opportunity to teach young people that's currently being squandered and it really cannot be emphasized enough that "this" here is THE HOLOCAUST

really is a textbook case for the idea that you can only buy bigotries in bulk

$30,000 per year to be a televised independent contractor who can't actually take other contract work, to not get any kind of serious benefits package, in a physically demanding job in which one wrong move can ruin your livelihood forever, why aren't MORE people complaining about this actually

I never finished the book (I found Maguire's writing style really really boring) but I'm led to believe that most of it--i.e. who THE ONE GUY ends up being and how it ends up--is Holzman's invention even if she does have an affair with him in the book

instead of this revolution that Elphaba passionately sang about joining in the most iconic song in this play, what if... more Fiyero...

summarizing Wicked: no one mourns the wicked! the wizard and I! what is this feeling! dancing through life! popular! defying gravity! *mumbles into arm* FOR GOOD!

to really drive the point home they named Part 2 after the only interesting thing in Act 2, which happens in the last five minutes of the play after we finally get resolution on the "was that lion Professor Goat talked about the REAL cowardly lion" point everyone was clamoring for

but don't you want to see what happens with Bok? and Elphaba's sister who's in the first act for like five minutes? don't you want to see what happens with Madame Morrible!?

ACT 1: two witches at a new school end up in a whimsical situationship full of rousing dance numbers and catchy tunes, ending in one of the most musical numbers in modern Broadway

ACT 2: oh fuck we forgot to set up all the "Wizard of Oz Prequel" bits and we've only got one act left hurry up

me who has actually seen all of Wicked and knew that all the famous bits are in Act 1: how could they NOT have expected it

The contrast to "illegal immigration" here is of course "came over the right way," a state that mysteriously applies to every single white person and no one else