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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).
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 wife of the governor of Munchkinland) during their adulterous affair. Discovering that she has real powers, the Wizard of Oz orders her arrest ...
After Elphaba is born green, her father forces her mother to eat milkweed during her second pregnancy. Seemingly as a result of the milkweed, Elphaba's mother dies while giving birth to Elphaba's ...
She plays Melena Thropp, Elphaba and Nessarose's mother, in the 2024 two-movies adaptation of Wicked. [9] Theatre. Year Title Role Theatre Ref. 2015 In the Heights:
Elphaba’s backstory is tragic: rejected by her father for her green skin, and forced to confront the death of her mother. “I wanted to put lots of different concepts and theories about evil ...
Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked takes the familiar Oz story and inverts it, with the Wicked Witch (given the name Elphaba in homage to L. Frank Baum) as the novel's protagonist and Dorothy as a hapless child.
The third act of the film, though, is largely driven by Elphaba’s arc. “The last 40 minutes of the movie is one long continuous sunset that starts with ‘Wizomania’ and takes us all to the ...
[5] [7] [8] Suskauer performed over 100 shows as Elphaba. [9] According to Suskauer, being painted into the makeup for Elphaba was a 15-minute process each night, and her standard warmup consisted of 20-minutes of vocal exercises. [9] Suskauer's performances as Elphaba have been received favorably by critics.