Wicked is the original "the 'Evil Witch'/Villainess was misunderstood!" trope. A stage musical origin story to the Good Witch of the North and the Wicked Witch of the West. Where they're classmates in high school.
Elphaba/the Wicked Witch has been famously performed by Idina Menzel on stage.
I think McGuire, who wrote the original book, also wrote revisionist stories in the worlds of Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella. But he specifically also intended Wicked as an Iraq War analogy...
Paraphrasing, but he said something like, "I originally wanted to write a novel about Hitler, but decided not to do that, so I thought I would write a novel about the second-most hated character in American popular culture: the Wicked Witch of the West". Which is... Interesting, to say the least.
OG book is considerably darker in tone than the musical (and with less romance), too...
I took my ex-wife to it. It's about the Wicked Witch of the West before the events of The Wizard of Oz. It makes the Wicked Witch central to every character in Oz, and makes her the true hero of Oz.
I've never seen this bizarre show.
Wicked is the original "the 'Evil Witch'/Villainess was misunderstood!" trope. A stage musical origin story to the Good Witch of the North and the Wicked Witch of the West. Where they're classmates in high school.
Elphaba/the Wicked Witch has been famously performed by Idina Menzel on stage.
I think McGuire, who wrote the original book, also wrote revisionist stories in the worlds of Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella. But he specifically also intended Wicked as an Iraq War analogy...
Paraphrasing, but he said something like, "I originally wanted to write a novel about Hitler, but decided not to do that, so I thought I would write a novel about the second-most hated character in American popular culture: the Wicked Witch of the West". Which is... Interesting, to say the least.
OG book is considerably darker in tone than the musical (and with less romance), too...
like who cares though, they're fan fictions
I agree. As far as I'm concerned, The Wizard of Oz is the only piece of that story.
Well you can tell everybody. This is your song. (Unda da sea) (witches)
I took my ex-wife to it. It's about the Wicked Witch of the West before the events of The Wizard of Oz. It makes the Wicked Witch central to every character in Oz, and makes her the true hero of Oz.
Oh, I don't have any ex-wives. But I had a girlfriend that liked Rocky Horror.