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How Do ‘Wicked’ and ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Connect? Us Explains


‘Wicked’ explores how The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good became who they are

Even the OG movie — which starred Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, Margaret Hamilton as the green, cackling Wicked Witch and Billie Burke as the fairy godmother–like Glinda — was an adaptation. Ariana Grande in ‘Wicked.’Universal StudiosElphaba soon learns that there is a movement in Oz to stop all the anthropomorphic animals — like her wise and kind professor Dr. Dillamond, who is a humanoid goat — from speaking. Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesWhile Wicked might not be a straightforward prequel to The Wizard of Oz, it provides a deeper exploration of the pasts and motivations of the characters from the original story.

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