The Wizard of Oz is thought to be the most viewed film ever—and one of the most beloved. Test yourself: How many Wizard of Oz ...

Many book-to-movie adaptations disappoint. They butcher the source material, water down the good stuff, and leave you wondering why Hollywood hates readers. But every once in a while, the stars align.

Chu’s "Wizard of Oz" prequel focuses on the unlikely friendship between college roommates Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), destined to become the misunderstood Wicked Witch of the West, and Galinda ...

Elphaba is green in Wicked because her biological parents drink a “green elixir” while pregnant with her. In fact, they state ...

In the original Wizard of Oz novel by L. Frank Baum, Nessarose is known as the Wicked Witch of East, the sister of Elphaba, Wicked Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo), and her fate is sealed when ...

Frank Baum book and the Broadway production of Wicked, not ruby like the MGM film). Related: Wicked actor Marissa Bode fell backward in her wheelchair while filming 'Dancing Through Life' Those who ...

How thrillifying that Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande opened the Oscars ceremony with a performance of songs from "The Wizard of Oz," "The Wiz" and "Wicked." At the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on ...

Elphaba Thropp is best known as the all-singing, all-dancing, not-always-wicked Witch of the West in the musical adaptation ... as his brilliant reimagining of Oz as a cohesive world, replete ...

The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," it seeks to re-imagine the Land of Oz. It serves as a prequel to the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz." According to the New York Theatre Guide ...

The Palace Theatre in Westcliff is set to host a "family pantomime" this Easter with an adaptation of the Wizard ... Wicked Witch of the West keeping a close eye on her. "Will the Great and ...

The stars also paid tribute to “The Wizard of Oz,” with Grande singing “Over the Rainbow,” and “The Wiz,” with Erivo singing “Home.” By Esther Zuckerman The stars of “Wicked ...