Those Wicked Witches of the West have little in common with the one that L. Frank Baum created in his 1900 children's classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Baum's witch wasn't green, for starters.

While Wicked explores how the Wicked Witch and Glinda came to be who they are in The Wizard of Oz, it’s not exactly a prequel due to the timeline. Act I of the musical and part one of the film ...

Director Jon M. Chu talks about Elphaba's plan to take down the Wizard in Wicked: For Good, in which the stakes will be ...

Long before the new movie Wicked made a sympathetic character of the Wicked Witch of the West, she was played by actress Margaret Hamilton in the classic film, The Wizard of Oz.

The 1939 film and other adaptations of Oz, like 1970s film 'The Wiz', are based on the original book by Frank L. Baum "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," written in 1900. The "Wicked" movie and Broadway ...

Just because the Wicked Witch of the West melted at the end of The Wizard of Oz doesn’t mean character actress Margaret Hamilton did. In fact, she went on to have an illustrious film career ...

What to remember from ‘Wizard of Oz' before seeing ‘Wicked' What will you see in "Wicked: Part One" that you might remember from the 1939 classic? More than you'd think.

The Wizard of Oz is a beloved 1939 movie musical telling the story of Dorothy’s adventures in the land of Oz. When Wicked debuted on Broadway in 2003, the story took a twist.

It wasn’t always easy being green for Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. And Hamilton — who died at age 82 in 1985 — went through a ...

As one of the characters originating in the children's novel The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, the Wicked Witch of the West has been adapted into different media.

I grew up watching The Wizard of Oz; I played it on repeat as a little kid. However, I hadn’t revisited it until after I saw Wicked in theaters right before its premiere on the 2024 movie schedule.