Speculation grows that the popular film ‘Wicked’, spawned from a Broadway musical, might be turned into a real-life ...

I'll get you, my pretty... When people see her, they will scream... Cynthia Erivo knew there was no way she could play Elphaba, the girl who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of ...

Well, that is, fans who have never read "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," the book ... air in ...

Judy Garland’s daughter, Lorna Luft, said her mom, who played Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ would have loved ‘Wicked’ ...

Pretty dark! But the Wicked Witch of the West was the villain ... because I’ve concluded in my oldish age that less explanations for things are often preferable to more explanations for things ...

Elphaba Thropp is best known as the all-singing, all-dancing, not-always-wicked Witch of the West in the musical adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s novel “Wicked” (1995). Those familiar only ...

Was the Wicked Witch of the West born wicked or did she have ... However, it was all rewritten for the new novel. “I wanted to get my hands on Elphie as a child, before I died and before ...

This book cover image released by William Morrow shows "Elphie: A Wicked Childhood" by Gregory Maguire. (William Morrow via AP) ...

But author Gregory Maguire, whose 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West inspired both adaptations ... “However, as the world continued to complicate itself and perplex ...

In the wake of the success of Wicked, on stage and screen ... known that she has Glinda (later the Good Witch of the North) as her roommate, the pretty blonde but mean-spirited young woman ...

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 ...

Most of Margaret Hamilton's scenes as the Wicked Witch were cut from the 1939 film because they were too scary Though she's been humanized in recent depictions like Gregory Maguire's Wicked (and ...