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

Recently we watched the 1932 version of “The Wizard of Oz.” It must have ... It had everything – black & white turning into color, a heroine, a good witch and bad witches, flying monkeys ...

Erivo’s Elphaba looks right at home in her full “wicked witch” glory, while Grande’s Glinda resembles the Glinda the Good fans of The Wizard of Oz are used to. The poster’s tagline ...

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 ...

Wicked: For Good will continue the story of Grande’s Glinda and Erivo’s Wicked Witch of the West ... s Madame Morrible and Goldblum’s Wizard of Oz. Wicked: For Good has wrapped production ...

Set before, during and after the events of “The Wizard of Oz,” the ... s Elphaba (eventually dubbed the Wicked Witch of the West) before Dorothy landed in Oz and sauntered down the Yellow ...

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 ...

This kicks off Morrible causing the tornado in the Wizard of Oz that brings Dorothy to Oz and kills Nessarose, a.k.a. the Wicked Witch of the East. Glinda and Elphaba reunite and fight over Glinda ...

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 ...

“The Wicked Witch can’t ignore us forever ... Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion arriving in Oz and presenting themselves in front of the wonderful wizard. External forces may have torn them ...