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 ...

The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.” Gregory Maguire’s original “Wicked” novel. A previously released recording of the audiobook was narrated by John McDonough in 2005.

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 Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The book was published back in 1995 and inspired Wicked, both the Broadway musical and the 2024 film. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash ...

The film sees Erivo’s Wicked Witch of the West studying at university in the ... They get there on an art deco-inspired train (colored emerald green of course) and instead of using film-making ...

“Defying Gravity,” in both the stage musical and film, serves as the moment that Elphaba “transforms” into the Wicked Witch of the West that Wizard of Oz fans know, with the added context ...

“What’s wonderful about the show is that you get an insight into why this woman becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, but you have only three hours to do it in,” she told Entertainment ...

and Erivo’s Elphaba (eventually dubbed the Wicked Witch of the West) before Dorothy landed in Oz and sauntered down the Yellow Brick Road. In “Part One,” Glinda and Elphaba meet at Shiz ...

Chu’s adaptation of the second act of the legendary musical that tells the story behind the Wicked Witch of the West. As anyone who has seen the musical knows, the second act is much darker than ...

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 ...

Maguire’s “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” first published in 1995, is a retelling of L. Frank Baum’s “The Wizard of Oz” from the Wicked Witch’s point of ...