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

During Elphaba's grand escape, Madame Morrible manipulates the weather into a thunderstorm to make her look scarier.

In the original Wizard of Oz novel ... known as the Wicked Witch of East, the sister of Elphaba, Wicked Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo), and her fate is sealed when Dorothy’s house lands ...

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The stars also paid tribute to “The Wizard of Oz,” with Grande singing “Over the Rainbow,” and “The Wiz,” with Erivo singing “Home.” By Esther Zuckerman The stars of “Wicked ...