While Wicked challenges viewers to reconsider whether The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch was really so evil, there are some major differences between the two stories that suggest they are different ...

There are other shout-outs to “The Wizard of Oz” in the film. In “Wicked: Part One” The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) enlists Elphaba and Galinda to help him decide on a color for a super ...

The Wizard of Oz is a beloved 1939 movie musical telling the story of Dorothy’s adventures in the land of Oz. When Wicked debuted on Broadway in 2003, the story took a twist. It told the origin ...

This wicked witch," Yeoh's Madame Morrible declares in a message heard across Oz. It's nothing but a lie, and the camera takes in the betrayed, sad face of the young woman who is branded with the ...

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 ...

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 ...