On Thursday’s episode of the long-running game show, contestants Mary Walheim, Alfred Wallace and three-day defending champion Bryce Wargin came up short when presented with a clue in the “Fictional ...

Now Elphaba and Glinda themselves, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, are back at CinemaCon with “Wicked: For Good,” director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the second act of the legendary musical that ...

the green-skinned ‘freak’, who goes on to become the Wicked Witch of the West in the much-loved classic The Wizard of Oz (by L. Frank Baum). The daughter of neglectful parents— her father a ...

In the original Wizard of Oz novel by L. Frank Baum, Nessarose is known as the Wicked Witch of East, the sister of Elphaba, Wicked Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo), and her fate is sealed when ...

Of course, with an overlapping setting and characters, there are many overt features of The Wizard of Oz in the new on-screen adaptation. The Wicked Witch, her green skin and pointed hat ...

In The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West uses poppies to stall Dorothy, Scarecrow, Lion and Tin Man's arrival to the Emerald City. During a classroom scene in Wicked, Elphaba brings her ...

Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz. Wicked is a prequel of Wizard of Oz, telling the tale of Wicked Witch of West, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Good Witch of South, Glinda (Ariana Grande). The film ...

Cynthia Erivo stars as Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, before she turned evil. Glinda the Good Witch, aka Galinda (played by Ariana Grande), is key to Elphaba’s ...

The annual television broadcast of The Wizard of Oz was ... In the original novel, the Wicked Witch of the West dies on Page 155, but Dorothy doesn’t leave Oz until 100 pages on.

The story, adapted from Gregory Maguire's novel of the same name, is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz. The movie musical chronicles the story of the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba) and Glinda the ...

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