Wicked features many overt references to The Wizard of Oz, but there are a variety of more subtle Easter eggs from the 1939 ...

It's in perhaps an unlikely place — Nessarose's silver slippers (silver to match the original L. Frank Baum book and the Broadway production of Wicked, not ruby like the MGM film). Related: Wicked ...

In the original Wizard of Oz novel by L. Frank Baum, Nessarose is known as the Wicked Witch of East, the sister of Elphaba, Wicked Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo), and her fate is sealed when ...

Cynthia Erivo stars as Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, before she turned evil. Glinda the Good Witch, aka Galinda (played by Ariana Grande), is key to Elphaba’s ...

The book reimagined L. Frank Baum’s classic Oz through the eyes of the Wicked Witch of the West, who he named Elphaba. Maguire told MassLive during an interview at his house in November that he ...

How thrillifying that Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande opened the Oscars ceremony with a performance of songs from “The Wizard of Oz,” “The Wiz” and “Wicked.” At the Dolby Theatre in ...

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande opened the 2025 Oscars with a stunning and moving medley of music created for The Wiz ard of Oz and its hit ... roaring final song from Wicked‘s first act that ...

The Cumberland County Playhouse presents “Wizard ... the Wizard of Oz. A crowd favorite included the “Certificate of Death” that announced the official death of the Wicked Witch of the ...

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo made a splash at the 2025 Oscars while performing a medley of famous tunes from various versions of “The Wizard of Oz.” On Sunday, the singers took the stage to ...

Elphaba Thropp is best known as the all-singing, all-dancing, not-always-wicked Witch of the West in the ... just as his brilliant reimagining of Oz as a cohesive world, replete with diverse ...

The stars also paid tribute to “The Wizard of Oz,” with Grande singing “Over the Rainbow,” and “The Wiz,” with Erivo singing “Home.” By Esther Zuckerman The stars of “Wicked ...