Marketing on the "Wicked" doll boxes indicates that they are ... The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire, which is inspired by L. Frank Baum's 1990 novel, "The ...

Most of Margaret Hamilton's scenes as the Wicked Witch were cut from the ... Maguire's Wicked (and its subsequent musical), the Wicked Witch of the West is one of the baddest villains of them ...

before she was known as the Wicked Witch of the West. From her struggles with familiar jealousy, her thirst for knowledge and her encounters with the marginalized talking animals of Oz ...