What a long, strange bubble ride it’s been. But the work of songwriter Stephen Schwartz on “Wicked” — the property he first discovered as a source novel and has led into Broadway and dual film iterations — has finally come to a close. (Or has it? More on his feelings about spinoffs momentarily.) He did not coast to the finish line, having come up with two new songs for “Wicked: For Good,” the Elphaba-sung “No Place Like Home” and Glinda’s “The Girl in the Bubble,” to make the second film in the two-parter at least as emotionally and thematically holistic as the first.
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