![]() ![]() Among other things, you can draw a straight line between Wicked’s billion-dollar-plus earnings and Disney’s recent mania for villains-reimagined stories like Maleficent, Cruella, and the Villains book series.īroadway’s version of Wicked ends with the supposed death of the Wicked Witch, whose actual name is Elphaba, and whose real motives have little to do with wickedness. Chu movie adaptation on the way, and a long, long cultural tail, inspiring endless copycat works. The Stephen Schwartz/Winnie Holzman musical takes a sympathetic behind-the-scenes look at The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West, and it’s become an enduring stage sensation, with a John M. WBack in 2018, Playbill estimated that more than 30 million people had seen the Broadway production of Wicked. ![]()
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