SHAPIRO: Long before the new movie "Wicked" made a sympathetic character of the Wicked Witch of the West, she was played ... it was not easy being green. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: In the original ...

Named Elphaba in the musical and film, the Wicked Witch is played by Tony Award winner Cynthia Erivo. Green goes good — er, well — with pink, and Erivo fits perfectly with her co-star Ariana ...