In fact, they got off on the wrong foot upon meeting at Shiz University. What doesn't help is that the rest of the school puts Glinda on a pedestal and hates Elphaba because of her green complexion.

Many scenes of Elphaba's childhood were among the cuts in Maguire’s “hefty brick of manuscript pages” when the book was first published in 1995, he tells USA TODAY. This prequel fills in ...

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 ...

She lifts her foot in front of the Zoom camera to show ... Courtesy of Mary Kate Morrissey Morrissey’s journey to Elphaba began as a childhood theater kid in Pennsylvania, although it wasn ...

Wicked ended with Elphaba being tricked by The Wizard and Madame Morrible into using the Grimmerie to create the flying monkeys in hopes of using them as spies against the animals of Oz.

Whether it’s Elphaba in “Wicked” or Celie in “The Color Purple,” the star doesn’t choose parts “frivolously”; she wants roles that stay with viewers. Standing 5-foot-1, Cynthia ...

For your face. ERIVO: (As Elphaba, singing) Your voice. GRANDE: (As Glinda, singing) Your clothing. DETROW: They start out on a bad foot. Glinda publicly humiliates Elphaba at a school dance ...