Wicked features many overt references to The Wizard of Oz, but there are a variety of more subtle Easter eggs from the 1939 ...

Elphaba is green in Wicked because her biological parents drink a “green elixir” while pregnant with her. In fact, they state ...

Frank Baum's 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard ... Oz. The musical also provides a backstory for the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, the Wicked Witch of the East and even the ...

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 ...

Grande first delivered a moonlit rendition of “Over the Rainbow,” which Judy Garland famously sang as Dorothy in the movie “The Wizard of Oz.” Erivo then belted her version of “Home” from the 1975 ...

Frank Baum book and the Broadway production of Wicked, not ruby like the MGM film). Related: Wicked actor Marissa Bode fell backward in her wheelchair while filming 'Dancing Through Life' Those who ...

How thrillifying that Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande opened the Oscars ceremony with a performance of songs from "The Wizard of Oz," "The Wiz" and "Wicked." At the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on ...