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Elphaba Thropp (/ ˈ ɛ l f ə b ə ˈ θ r ɒ p /) is the protagonist in the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, its musical theatre adaptation, and the musical's two-part film adaptation, Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025).
She is depicted as a short white-haired hag in the red stereotypical witch dress. In this version name "Wicked Witch of the West" is given to Mombi. In the 1986 anime series The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Witch is purple-skinned once again, and has long white hair with a blood-like red streak. She possesses both eyes and is dressed in a long ...
For those of you who weren't theater kids in the 2000s, Act I of Wicked, and therefore Wicked: Part I, follows the green-skinned Wicked Witch of the West, with her given name, Elphaba Thropp ...
Of all stage, film and animated productions of the Oz story, The Wiz follows Baum's book the most closely, and therefore she has no green skin. Under the name Elphaba, she is the protagonist of the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel and the 2003 musical Wicked, and is born green due to an elixir given by her father (the Wizard of Oz) to her mother (the ...
More than 50 years after Hamilton wore toxic copper-based face paint to appear green in The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ...
In the Oscar-season premiere of The Envelope video podcast, “Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo explains how she and the film's creative team found the perfect Elphaba green and Saoirse Ronan ...
Madame Morrible (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West) Morwen (Enchanted Forest Chronicles) Moss ; N. Natasha (The Master and Margarita) Nessarose, the Wicked Witch of the East (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West) Nettle ; Anna-Karin Nieminen ; Enid Nightshade (The Worst Witch)
But in “Wicked,” the green-skinned spell-caster turns out to be far more sympathetic than Glinda, her ostensibly “good,” oppressively pink rival. Loosely …