Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment:

l Attention all would-be Elphabas, Glindas and Fiyeros — your opportunity to defy gravity and traditional movie theater etiquette is less than two weeks away.

On Tuesday Universal Pictures put on sale tickets for sing-along screenings of the hit movie “Wicked” starting Christmas Day.

The lyrics will appear on screen for those showings so the crowd will be able to try to match Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey on “Defying Gravity,” “Popular” and “Dancing Through Life.”

Based on social media posts and stories by publications like the New York Times, many didn’t wait for the sing-along shows to turn “I’m Not That Girl” into a duet. Reports of moviegoers acting like Eric Cartman — “I do what I want” — and belting out in their reclining seats were rampant.

“Wicked” isn’t the first movie to offer sing-alongs, and it’s easy to understand why a studio does it.

It encourages fans to buy a second (third? fourth?) ticket to the movie rather than wait for streaming, digital download or Blu-ray to see it again.

It already has grossed $325 million (as of Monday), and it’s sure to enjoy a boost from the Christmas / New Year’s break, even without that gimmick.

The only downside for local “Wicked” fans is they may have to drive an hour or so to tap into their inner diva. A search Tuesday on Fandango only turned up theaters in suburban Cleveland (Valley View, Crocker Park, Willoughby). There are a lot of big movies coming out in the next couple of weeks, but I can’t believe any multiplex that still is devoting two or more screens to “Wicked” won’t offer the sing-along print in one of them.

If not, be prepared to follow a turnpike or interstate, not a yellow brick road, to see it.

* Over the weekend, I watched “Yacht Rock: The Dockumentary,” which is streaming on MAX.

I grew up hating a lot of this music. I was in high school and college when this genre was spawned. As a kid with one foot firmly in album-oriented rock radio staples of the late ’70s and the other starting to explore bands like the Ramones, Elvis Costello and Talking Heads, there was less than zero interest in the jazzy pop explorations of the acts that define that sound.

I love Steely Dan now, but the only reason I bought “Steely Dan’s Greatest Hits” was to satisfy the inevitable request to play “the Dan” at any college party.

“Yacht Rock” argues that Steely Dan is the birthplace of that sound, and many of its disciples can be traced back to that group. Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen disagrees, as he makes very clear in a brief, profane, audio-only appearance.

I agree with Fagen. Its music was darker and far more acerbic than anything that ever appeared on a Michael McDonald or Christopher Cross record.

Director Garret Price has some fun at the expense of the frequently ridiculed artists and features plenty of clips from the low budget web series “Yacht Rock” that is credited with naming the genre a quarter century after its popularity.

However, the movie spends more time defending them and celebrating the musical chops of people like McDonald and the guys from Toto, who seemed to have played on every album in the late ’70s except for those made by the Ramones, Elvis Costello and Talking Heads. I’ll confess I didn’t know until Saturday that “Human Nature” from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album was written by Toto’s Steve Porcaro.

By the end of the movie, I had a grudging respect for acts I’ve dissed in the past, even if I still have no interest in ever listening to Toto or Cross.

However, yacht rock fans can go sailin’ with Toto and Cross, who announced a joint tour this week (along with Men at Work, which absolutely isn’t yacht rock). They will play The Pavilion at Star Lake on July 24 and Blossom Music Center on Aug. 8.

Don’t forget your captain’s hat.

Andy Gray is the entertainment editor of Ticket. Write to him at agray@tribtoday.com