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Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz, or simply 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.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire first hit shelves in 2007. The book asks the central question the musical and movie do: Are people born wicked, or do ...
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).
While political allegory is the B-plot to “Wicked” the musical, which centers on Glinda and Elphaba’s friendship, it’s the main storyline of Maguire’s book. Maguire’s “Wicked ...
Wicked is not merely based on a musical; the musical's source material is a series of dark fantasy novels by Gregory Maguire, who presents a revisionist version of L. Frank Baum's original Oz books.
The book is Maguire’s fifth revisionist story and the second set in the land of Oz conceived by L. Frank Baum. Son of a Witch continues the story after the fall from power of the Wizard of Oz and the death of Elphaba by recounting the life of Elphaba’s son, Liir. The book is dedicated to the cast of the Broadway musical version of Wicked.
The film is based upon the 2003 Broadway musical, which was adapated from Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked, about the origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West.
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 ...