Gregory Maguire extends his fictional expansion of L. Frank Baum’s Oz, traveling back to the childhood of the antiheroic ...

Fortunately, For Good will address both of those questions. In the sequel, Elphaba is labeled the "Wicked Witch of the West" after challenging the (not so) Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Glinda is ...

is a spinoff of "The Wizard of Oz” that tells the origin story of Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo), who attends the fantastical Shiz University with the future witch ...

It’s this same emotional alchemy she brings to the not-so-wicked witch. Elphaba is an Everest of a role. Contrary to some misleading reporting, Erivo is not the first Black woman to play it.

Instead, she’s forced to go it alone, even as Madame Morrible calls her a “wicked witch” across Oz’s radio waves. Elphaba is villainized simply because she’s attempting to stop powerful people from ...

“Wicked” tells the story of Elphaba, a witch who eventually rises to infamy in Oz, and Glinda, her best friend at school. Yes, that’s the same Glinda who we meet as Glinda the Good Witch in ...

From 25 March 2025, Emma Kingston will play Elphaba, while Zizi Strallen will take on the role of Glinda. You can watch them sing “For Good” in the video below: ...

Wicked tells the backstory of green-skinned Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and Galinda, the future Glinda the Good Witch, during their time as students at Shiz University.

Wicked tells the tale of Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West and their first ... but through the lens of Elphaba who is now on the rocks with the citizens of Oz.