Wicked features many overt references to The Wizard of Oz, but there are a variety of more subtle Easter eggs from the 1939 ...

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

During Elphaba's grand escape, Madame Morrible manipulates the weather into a thunderstorm to make her look scarier.

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 ... Wizard of Oz likely know Nessarose's ultimate fate, which will come in Wicked: For Good (in theaters Nov. 21). As the sister of Elphaba ...

It’s popular, and it’s on Peacock. US viewers can watch Wicked online from Friday, March 21 when the award-winning film arrives on NBC Universal’s streaming service. Alongside the hit musical’s debut, ...

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 ...

Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu brought together Tony Award-winning actress Cynthia Erivo and music sensation Ariana ...

Cynthia Erivo in “Wicked” (Credit: Universal Pictures) Erivo leads the larger-than-life film adaptation as Elphaba. The witch (who was ... plays the illusive Wizard of Oz.

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 ...