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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 was definitely a big swing." Part of the success of "Wicked" also can be attributed to the studio's aggressive marketing campaign, which saw Universal partner with 400 brands worldwide ...
"Wicked" is a new prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" story, based on the award-winning Broadway show. ... The Broadway adaption of the book is a resounding success. Since its debut in 2005, "Wicked ...
The comedian, who stars on 'Saturday Night Live,' also has a role in the 'Wicked' film adaptation. Bowen Yang’s banner year has been more than two decades in the making.. The comedian, 34, who ...
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).
A number of productions for Wicked, a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, have won and nominated several awards. Wicked is based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).
Wicked broke several box office records in its opening weekend, pulling in $165 million worldwide as fans around the globe filled up theaters to see the story come to life on the big screen.
In 1995, Maguire published his first adult novel, Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. A word of mouth success, it sold 500,000 copies by the time the Broadway adaptation opened in 2003. In 2005, ten years after its publication, Wicked spent 26 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. [1]