Photo: Universal Pictures Take it from Fiyero: “Life is fraught-less when you’re thoughtless.” While the Wizard of Oz prequel tells a reasonably compelling story — albeit a much safer one than the Gregory Maguire novel the show is based on — we’re here to dance through the songs. There are 11 in the first act of the hit Broadway musical, so that’s exactly how many there are in Wicked (Part One) . (That this is merely half the story is another thing the film’s early marketing may have been a bit