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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mary Kate Blake [1] (born June 18, 1989), known by her maiden name Mary Kate Morrissey, is an American stage actress.Born in Pennsylvania, Morrissey began her career when she starred as Sheila in the musical Hair and Janis in the Mean Girls musical.
Cynthia asked the director, Jon M. Chu, if they could “reimagine” Elphaba’s traditionally long, wavy hair as micro braids in the movie.
The reason Elphaba is able to read it is that—spoiler alert for Wicked: Part Two—the Wizard (who is also from Earth) is her real father and her half-Ozian, half-Earthling heritage has gifted ...
I’d play the album in the car when I missed my mom (she loved musicals), and my daughter eventually began singing along, pausing occasionally to ask questions about Elphaba and her character arc ...