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Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo, left) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) are school rivals who become best friends in the musical "Wicked," a prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" based on the Broadway show.
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star as the witches of Oz in the first of a two-part adaptation. A lot happened in Oz before Dorothy dropped in. Wicked, an enchanting prequel story to The Wizard ...
In director Jon M. Chu’s prequel and origin story — based on the long-running Broadway musical which debuted in 2003 — she’s Elphaba Thropp (Cynthia Erivo), a shy, misunderstood young ...
I agree that Wicked needs a lot of clean-up, and streamlining, but, as I pointed out to Z1720 elsewhere, while WP:RS/P states that BroadwayWorld is not a reliable source "for biographies of living persons", it is a standard source for use in musicals for basic production information like production dates and casts (though Playbill, IBDB, etc ...
Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman.It is a loose adaptation of the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which in turn is based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation.
When “Wicked” debuted on Broadway in 2003, Variety’s skeptical theater critic described composer Stephen Schwartz’s revisionist take on the iconic villain as “strenuous,” “lumbering ...
Jonathan Murray Chu (born November 2, 1979) [3] is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.. Chu is known as the director of the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and the musical fantasy Wicked (2024), the former being one of the first films by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asian descent. [4]
Related: Wicked Review: Ariana Grande Steals the Show in an Oz-some Adaptation of the Hit Broadway Musical But the book spends much more time laying out the social, political and ethical ...