The musical adaptation is perfectly timed to an American audience eager for distractions after a bruising election cycle and its uncertain aftermath. After months of relentless promotion (remember the Olympics ?), “Wicked” has finally landed in theaters, delivering a lavish and stealthily political adaptation of the beloved musical. Yet beyond hoping to defy the box office gravity of the streaming era, the film’s brightly colored explosion of pink and green makes it the movie a lot of people