Four different witches occupy the world of The Wizard of Oz, the film that ultimately inspired Wicked. The new movie in the franchise tells the story of the Wicked Witch of the West before she ...
Long before Wicked reimagined the Witch ... fascism, Oz was a hotbed of political commentary. No, I'm not referring to that dubious old tale that L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of ...
We call it “history.” So says the Wizard in the musical “Wicked,” based on Gregory Maguire’s novel about the witches of Oz. Maguire created Elphaba’s name from the initials of L.
Based on the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L ... in scenes where Dorothy stands at the gates to Oz. When the witch tries to take the shoes off Dorothy's feet, her hands ...