Frank Baum's 'The Wondeful Wizard of Oz' (1900); MGM's classic film 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939); Sidney Lumet's film 'The Wiz' (1978); Gregory Maguire's novel 'Wicked: The Life and Time of the Wicked Witch of the West' (1995); and Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's ...
In December of 2015, NBC produced television special The Wiz Live!, starring Shanice Williams as Dorothy Gale, Elijah Kelley as the Scarecrow, Ne-Yo as the Tin-Man, David Alan Grier as the Cowardly Lion, Mary J. Blige as Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West, Queen Latifah as the Wi...
Wicked adapts the Broadway musical into a two-part film, following the unlikely friendship between Elphaba, born with green skin, and Glinda, a popular aristocrat, in the Land of Oz. As they navigate their contrasting paths, they evolve into Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West...
Then, in 1995, Gregory Maguire wrote the adult-oriented Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the first of several novels spinning off from Baum’s fictional universe — with a heaping dose of dark dystopia. Then, along the way to being developed into a movie, ...
Vote up the musicals that fans ofWickedwill enjoy. The hit musicalWickedhas spent over two decades on Broadway since itopened in 2003. Based on Gregory Maguire's novelWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which is in turn adapted from L. Frank Baum'sOzbooks, the...
The only person in Oz with green skin, Elphaba is a racial minority of one and it has made her an outcast, hardened her defenses. But that tough exterior hides a full and compassionate heart. Her extraordinary adventures in Oz will see her fulfill her destiny as the Wicked Witch of t...
As they forge an unlikely friendship, their extraordinary adventures will see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.With the LEGO Wicked Elphaba & Glinda Figures set, fans can scan a QR code to play along a brick build story to the iconic tune of...
Wicked, the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the East is a fantasy book by Gregory Maguire. It follows the life of the Wicked Witch, the character from the Wizard of Oz, from her birth to her death, or her pseudo-death. It also explores the question the nature of good and evi...
Originally based onGregory Maguire's 1995 bookWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, both the musical and the movie differ wildly fromthe novel, as well as the book that started it all,L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's bookThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz. (Fun ...
While imagining the evolution of the character — who becomes a villain in The Wizard of Oz— Tazewell wanted the costumes to act as a fashion “springboard” that could have realistically led to the Wicked Witch's (Margaret Hamilton) dress-and-boots look from the 1939 film. “How do I ...