Glinda and Elphaba are the stars of Mattel's new dolls—but the new toys also tease just how 'For Good' will adapt the musical ...

The Wicked Witch of the West also wants the pair of shoes the Good Witch of the North has gifted Dorothy from the dead witch. ... How does ‘The Wizard of Oz’ connect to ‘Wicked’?

Maguire's novel reframes the popular plot of the original book and 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz" around the book's main villain, the Wicked Witch of the West. Elphaba, as she's christened by ...

In The Wizard of Oz, however, the Wicked Witch and the Scarecrow are enemies, and the witch sets the Scarecrow's arm on fire at one point. Cynthia Erivo Explains Why 'Wicked' Is Split Into 2 Movies.

"Wicked" is a new prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" story, based on the award-winning Broadway show. Here's how the two stories intersect.

This is a direct reference to a scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Wicked Elphaba creates a field of poppies to slow down Dorothy and her friends on their way to Emerald City.

Set decades before Dorothy Gale lands in Oz, it tells the story of how the original characters G(a)linda the Good (also known as the Good Witch of the South or Good Witch of the North, depending ...

And a new generation of Baby Boomers, seeing the "Wizard of Oz" movie year after year on TV, took the Wicked Witch to heart. Among them was novelist Gregory Maguire, born 1954, who began to wonder ...

The book is a prequel to L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Elphaba, the name of the Wicked Witch of the West, is derived from the original creator’s initials.

It wasn’t always easy being green for Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. And Hamilton — who died at age 82 in 1985 — went through a ...

More than 50 years after Hamilton wore toxic copper-based face paint to appear green in The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ...