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 ...

Jerry Hal Salitermann, who was charged for his involvement in the 2005 theft of the since-recovered Wizard of Oz ruby ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2025 Academy Awards are underway, and got one gravity-defying launch (sorry), courtesy of Wicked stars Ariana ... from the 1939 adaptation of The Wizard Of Oz, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.” ...

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 Hollywood on ...