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“Wicked” – the movie, the Broadway musical and the book – crafts Dorothy’s nemesis as a fully-formed (and green) character with her own tragic backstory. The book is a prequel to L ...
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is an American novel published in 1995, written by Gregory Maguire with illustrations by Douglas Smith. It is the first in The Wicked Years series, and was followed by Son of a Witch (published in September 2005), A Lion Among Men (published in October 2008), and Out of Oz (published in November 2011).
The book and musical could be distilled to the same plot summary: Behold, the unexpected backstory of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda the Good.
The movie follows the musical and book's plot where Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, didn't start out wicked. She was ostracized in Oz for her green skin tone from an early age.
Out of Oz is the fourth and final novel in Gregory Maguire's The Wicked Years and was released on November 1, 2011. Out of Oz brings a conclusion to the narratives spread across The Wicked Years while providing a revisionist look at L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz incorporating elements from Baum's series as well as the 1939 film adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The Wicked Years is a series of novels by Gregory Maguire that present a revisionist take on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, its 1939 film adaptation, and related books. Unlike the original novel series, the Wicked Years are targeted towards a mature audience and presented a very different and cynical version of Oz than its ...
The "Wicked" musical is based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 book "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," which takes place before the events of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The ...
A sequel titled The Wicked Will Rise was published on March 30, 2015, following the events of Dorothy Must Die. The third installment of the series titled Yellow Brick War was published on March 15, 2016. The fourth and final book, The End of Oz, was released on March 14, 2017. [7]