when she finally declares the name every viewer has known since they first watched The Wizard of Oz or read L. Frank Baum’s ...

Loosely based on the original 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" written by L ... on Gregory Maguire's 1995 book "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," which takes ...

The Wicked movie and Broadway musical of the same name have some similarities to the original children’s story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. While the 1900 novel is centered around the main ...

Dorothy then sets down the yellow brick road to see the Wizard of Oz with ... to the original adaptation. Interestingly, as per Wicked, Galinda was not always considered a good witch.

Maguire's novel reframes the popular plot of the original book and 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz" around the book's main villain, the Wicked Witch of the West. Elphaba, as she's christened by ...

However, when I watched The Wizard of Oz as a child ... So, seeing the Wicked Witch with the monkeys in the original film was a bit jarring. However, this time, I viewed it more as them serving ...

In The Wizard of Oz, however, the Wicked Witch and the Scarecrow are enemies ... the pasts and motivations of the characters from the original story.

Though they are nearly thwarted by the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret ... here's a look back at the original The Wizard of Oz cast and what happened to them after Dorothy returned home to ...