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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

the green-skinned ‘freak’, who goes on to become the Wicked Witch of the West in the much-loved classic The Wizard of Oz (by L. Frank Baum). The daughter of neglectful parents— her father a ...

The movie musical chronicles the story of the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba) and Glinda the Good (Galinda) in their early college years at Shiz University. The pair, originally reluctant ...

Was the Wicked Witch of the West born wicked or did she have wickedness thrust upon her? Maybe what appears as wickedness began in the witch’s childhood. That’s what Massachusetts Author ...

The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," it seeks to re-imagine the Land of Oz. It serves as a prequel to the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz." According to the New York Theatre Guide ...