A Wicked Childhood" to stars Idina Menzel and Cynthia Erivo, as well as all other performers to play the role of Elphaba.

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 ...

This prequel fills in gaps in Elphaba’s story for fans who have supported "Wicked" for three decades. “Those two little scenes fell on the cutting room floor, as it were, of my office ...

Of course, the first time I saw Wicked ... go broom to wand in the second half of the story. As a fan of the musical, one element of the movie that hit harder than the Broadway show was Elphaba's ...

The Wicked Monopoly Edition Board Game game comes with a custom board with OZ land properties, including Shiz University, Wizards Palace, Elphaba and ... oz magic franchise toys and other amazing ...

If you were enchanted by 2024's smash hit movie “Wicked,” you might enjoy reading Elphaba’s backstory. Author Gregory Maguire, whose book inspired the movie and the musical, spoke with The Culture ...

In his new novel Elphie: A Wicked Childhood, out March 25 from William Morrow, Maguire takes readers back to Elphaba’s early childhood, before she met Glinda at Shiz University. The novel recounts her ...

Elphie, a new prequel novel exploring the childhood of Wicked's Elphaba Thropp, is now on shelves. In an interview with the Today Show, filmed at New York's Drama Book Shop, author Gregory Maguire ...