All we’re saying is that you’d have to spend more than “One Short Day” in Emerald City to learn all of the “Wicked” and “Oz” ...

The book that started it all: Wicked, published in 1995, is inspired by L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book and its film adaptation. The story follows Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West ...

"Wicked: For Good" takes some drastic liberties with the story from the original novel "Wicked," with both having a different ...

For Catholic author Gregory Maguire, the magic of life is not to be found in some technicolor fantasyland somewhere over a ...

Wicked: For Good’ ends the story of the Wicked Witch Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda the Good (Ariana Grande), closing on ...

The Wicked universe is officially expanding in all its technicolor splendor. Author Gregory Maguire, whose 1995 novel ...

The musical and movies revamp Glinda's ending and have her realise that the Wizard is Elphaba's biological father. She ...

It didn’t take long for BookToker Asia Lin to understand that “Wicked,” the book by Gregory Maguire, would be nothing like the musical she had first seen months earlier. “It was the first page,” Lin ...

The 2003 musical and 2024 movie don't include all of the explicit elements in the book, though they do reference animal cruelty, xenophobia, and other dark themes. In November 2024, the movie "Wicked, ...

The Wicked Witch of the West did not carry a broom in L. Frank Baum’s original 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'—so where did it ...

Long before Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were holding space for the lyrics of “Defying Gravity,” there was “Wicked” the Broadway musical. And before that, there was “Wicked: The Life and Times of ...

The novel, titled "Galinda: A Charmed Childhood," will chronicle the Good Witch's youth and serve as a "sister volume" to ...