'It was such a good idea': Wicked author Gregory Maguire on the real meaning of the story that captivated the world
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'It was such a good idea': Wicked author Gregory Maguire on the real meaning of the story that captivated the world

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'It was such a good idea': Wicked author Gregory Maguire on the real meaning of the story that captivated the world Universal Pictures Before it was a Hollywood blockbuster it was a megahit musical, and before that it was a 1995 novel. By the early 1990s, Maguire was a well-respected children's author, who had received "good reviews, but no big sales", he says. Getty Images Wicked has been playing in New York since 2003, making it the fourth-longest-running Broadway show of all time Maguire insists that he never came up with a "unified theory" regarding evil. Greene was writing about how fascism arises "because people can't imagine what it's like to be somebody else," says Maguire.

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'Wicked' Feels Disturbingly Relevant During Trump's First 100 Days
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'Wicked' Feels Disturbingly Relevant During Trump's First 100 Days

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LOADING ERROR LOADING On Sunday, the Trump administration loaded roughly 250 immigrants onto planes and shipped them off to a mega-prison in El Salvador where they will remain for at least a year. “Wicked,” the book-turned-musical-turned-movie based on “The Wizard of Oz,” may just be the best modern allegory for Trump’s second administration, which is currently orchestrating mass deportations against …

Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo's Wicked sequel title announced
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Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo's Wicked sequel title announced

India Today  

The eagerly awaited sequel to Jon M Chu’s Wicked has been officially titled Wicked: For Good. The announcement comes as the first installment, Wicked Part One, continues to dominate the box office, surpassing the $500 million milestone globally over the weekend. Both films are adapted from Gregory Maguire’s acclaimed 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch …

‘Wicked’ and other travellers on the yellow brick road
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‘Wicked’ and other travellers on the yellow brick road

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During the afternoon show of John M. Chu’s Wicked I attended, there were no audience members singing along. Or there weren’t any until the film’s ;-'Defying Gravity' song, picturized on the film’s two witchy leads, the green-skinned, misunderstood Elphaba and the kind-hearted Galinda, the two apprentice-witches are destined to become ‘the Wicked Witch of the East’ and ‘Glinda the Good’, …

With "Wicked," director Jon M. Chu writes his own story : Consider This from NPR
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With "Wicked," director Jon M. Chu writes his own story : Consider This from NPR

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With "Wicked," director Jon M. Chu writes his own story Enlarge this image toggle caption Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP In 2003, the hit musical Wicked debuted on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre in Manhattan. Chu's parents put him and his siblings in etiquette, dance and music classes to be "as 'American' as possible." "Because when their child is …

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