In both “Wicked” the musical and movie, Elphaba’s backstory is explored in the opening track, “No One Mourns the Wicked.” The song, sung by Glinda, walks through how Elphaba’s mom drank a green elixir ...
IT IS HARD to decide the wackiest thing about “Wicked”. Perhaps it is the fact that in Oz, the musical’s magical setting, animals work. (A goat is a historian; an owl a preacher.) Perhaps it is that ...
The musical Wicked serves as a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, but the 2024 movie adaptation doubles as an homage to the 1939 classic with several carefully placed Easter eggs. Of course, with an ...