"middle of the story, in tribute to Doctor Dillamond, a martyred Goat who teaches at Shiz (Dillamond made the habitual mistake of calling her ""Glinda"" instead of ""Galinda"" while they shared a carriage, before her arrival to the University). The Goat's death also prompts Glinda to re-evaluate her life, and she dedicates herself to studying sorcery, at which she proves to be quite skilled. It is stated that she marries Sir Chuffrey in the second half of the novel and they have no children. She initially dislikes Elphaba's sister Nessarose (who goes on to become the Wicked Witch of the"
"to become the notorious Wicked Witch of the West. Maguire fashioned the name of Elphaba from the initials of Lyman Frank Baum, L-F-B. The story is divided into five different sections, based on the plot location. A prologue presents Elphaba spying on Dorothy and her friends, and hearing their gossip about her. Elphaba is born to Melena Thropp, who is the grand-daughter of the Eminent Thropp of Munchkinland, and is the wife of Frexspar, an itinerant unionist minister. Frex is the seventh son of a seventh son, all ministers. Because Melena is bored and outcast, she takes comfort in strangers"
"Elphaba Elphaba Thropp is a fictional character in """" by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway and West End adaptations, ""Wicked"". In the original L. Frank Baum book ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", the Wicked Witch of the West is unnamed and little is explained about her life. Elphaba is modeled after the Witch portrayed by Margaret Hamilton in the classic 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"": green-skinned, clad entirely in black and wearing a tall peaked hat. Maguire formulated the name ""Elphaba"" from the phonetic pronunciation of Baum's initials L.F.B. In both adaptations, Elphaba is also called"
"come help him with Nessarose, who has taken Elphaba's position of Eminent Thropp of Munchkinland. When she arrives, he asks her to help him talk to Nessa, whom Elphaba discovers has become a witch, who she accidentally labels the Wicked Witch of the East. During a discussion with Frex, Elphaba learns that there is a very high chance neither she nor Nessarose are the daughters of Frex, leaving Elphaba more hurt than confused after Frex claims that he loves Nessarose more simply because she was the living proof there was a single good thing in the world and that even"
"by several nicknames including Elphie, Fabala, Sister (Saint) Aelphaba, Auntie Witch, and Fae. Elphaba is the illegitimate daughter of Melena Thropp and the Wizard of Oz. She was conceived when the Wizard drugged and raped Melena. Elphaba does not discover her true father's identity until later in her life, and grows up believing that her mother's husband Frexspar is her father. Through her mother, she can lay claim to the highest held title of Munchkinland, the Eminent Thropp. Frexspar, the unionist minister and missionary, is her mother’s husband. Nessarose (later the Wicked Witch of the East), and Shell, the Emperor"
"to have been created on Earth, which is why it is illegible to the people of Oz. However, being of mixed Ozian and Earthly blood, Elphaba possesses a natural ability to at least partially understand the contents of the book. Elphaba Elphaba Thropp is a fictional character in """" by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway and West End adaptations, ""Wicked"". In the original L. Frank Baum book ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", the Wicked Witch of the West is unnamed and little is explained about her life. Elphaba is modeled after the Witch portrayed by Margaret Hamilton"
"friends, Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) and Galinda (whose name later changes to Glinda the Good Witch), who struggle through opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's public fall from grace. Produced by Universal Stage Productions in coalition with Marc Platt, Jon B. Platt and David Stone, with direction by Joe Mantello and choreography by Wayne Cilento, the original production of ""Wicked"" premiered on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre in October 2003, after completing pre-Broadway tryouts at San Francisco's Curran Theatre in May/June 2003. Its original stars"
"different direction with her Oz books, introducing European elements such as the title character of ""The Yellow Knight of Oz"", a knight straight out of Arthurian Legend. At the time of ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", the lands in the North, South, East and West of Oz are each ruled by a Witch. The Witches of the North and South are good, while the Witches of the East and West are wicked. Glinda (the Good Witch of the South) is later revealed to be the most powerful of the four, although later Oz books reveal that the Wicked Witch of"
"Nessarose Nessarose Thropp is the name of the woman who becomes the Wicked Witch of the East in """" by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway adaptation, ""Wicked"". She is the beautiful and physically handicapped younger sister of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. In both Maguire's novel and the musical version, the character is portrayed in a much less negative light than L. Frank Baum's original Wicked Witch of the East. Nessarose possesses sympathetic and admirable qualities, but these are ultimately overshadowed by her increasingly uncompromising and self-righteous nature. She earns her infamous title upon becoming"
"Hall, Katie Rowley Jones (original London cast), Caroline Keiff, Natalie Anderson, Marcie Dodd (the only actress to date to have played both lead roles of Nessarose and Elphaba), Summer Naomi Smart and Penny McNamee (original Australian cast), among others. Nessarose Nessarose Thropp is the name of the woman who becomes the Wicked Witch of the East in """" by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway adaptation, ""Wicked"". She is the beautiful and physically handicapped younger sister of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. In both Maguire's novel and the musical version, the character is portrayed in a"
"that witches and wizards can be both good and evil, unlike the evil witches that Dorothy had been told of. That book contained only the four witches (besides the humbug wizard), but despite Ozma's prohibition on magic, many more magicians feature in later works. Baum tended to capitalize the word ""Witch"" when referring to the Witches of the North, South, East or West, but did not do so when referring to witches in general. For example, in the aforementioned first scene of ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", Locasta (or Tattypoo) thanks Dorothy for killing the ""Wicked Witch of the East"","
"this is how the rest of Oz sees her, and eventually gives in to the title of 'The Wicked Witch of the West.' In the book, Elphaba does not possess the same knack for magic as her musical counterpart. She has a hidden magic power, but it only emerges when she is moved to extreme anger. This happens twice in the book: Once when the cook of the caravan she is going with to get to the Vinkus threatens to cook Liir after Elphaba had complained about the cook's cruelty to Animals. Shortly thereafter, cook is found dead, his corpse"
"However, it may be that Elphaba's return is actually Rain herself, since once the spell disguising her green skin is removed she looks exactly like Elphaba. For the musical ""Wicked"", Elphaba was written to be less cynical, more likable, and far more sympathetic than the novel counterpart. Her only abnormality is her green skin. In the book, Elphaba virtually goes insane, and genuinely becomes ""wicked"", though understandably so. In the musical, Elphaba is framed by the Wizard and Madame Morrible for crimes she ""committed"" on the Wizard's orders, and because she refused to turn her powerful magic to the wizard's"
"North, only to be deposed by the Good Witch of the North. Furthermore, Mombi had enslaved Ozma's father (King Pastoria) and grandfather, thereby removing the Royal Family of Oz, and enabling herself and the Wicked Witches of the East, West and South to conquer and divide the land between them. After forcing her to disenchant Princess Ozma, Glinda the Good Witch of the South made Mombi drink a powerful draught that stripped the old witch of all her magic powers. Mombi didn't make any further appearances in L. Frank Baum's books. In Ruth Plumly Thompson's ""The Lost King of Oz"","
"the West was so powerful, even Glinda feared her. After Dorothy's house crushes the Wicked Witch of the East, thereby liberating the Munchkins from bondage, the Good Witch of the North tells Dorothy that she (the Witch of the North) is not as powerful as the Wicked Witch of the East had been, or she would have freed the Munchkins herself. During the first scene in Oz in ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", the Good Witch of the North (Locasta or Tattypoo) explains to Dorothy that Oz still has witches and wizards, not being civilized, and goes on to explain"
"of Witches. Later, after the Wicked Witch of the West takes over Emerald City, She is relocated back to the North, where she becomes the cruel ""Wicked Witch of the North"" and is responsible for turning Stanum into the Tin Man. In the novel ""Dorothy Must Die"", by Danielle Paige, former Good Witch of the North Gert is a member of the Order of the Wicked. Good Witch of the North The Good Witch of the North, sometimes named Locasta or Tattypoo, is a fictional character in the Land of Oz, created by American author L. Frank Baum. She is"
"Good Witch of the North The Good Witch of the North, sometimes named Locasta or Tattypoo, is a fictional character in the Land of Oz, created by American author L. Frank Baum. She is the elderly and mild-mannered Ruler of the Gillikin Country. Her only significant appearance in Baum's work is in Chapter 2 of ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" (1900), in which she introduces Dorothy to Oz and sends her to meet the Wizard, after placing a protective kiss on her forehead. She makes a brief cameo appearance at Princess Ozma's birthday party in ""The Road to Oz"" (1909),"
"has been torn from his mother and used as an experiment (in the book by Doctor Dillamond's replacement, Doctor Nikidik, and in the musical an agent of the Wizard) on the nature of Animals. Elphaba (the future Wicked Witch of the West) saves the Lion Cub that in the end of both adaptations attempts to kill her. He also appears in Maguire's 2005 sequel ""Son of a Witch"", also in a minor role. The Cowardly Lion is the central character in the third book of the series, ""A Lion Among Men"", where he is given the name of Brrr, which"
"Gillikin province named Up Town as the new rulers of the Gillikins. In 2000, Dave Hardenbrook published ""The Unknown Witches of Oz"", with Locasta, the Good Witch of the North, as the main protagonist. Dave Hardenbrook wished to reconcile L. Frank Baum's original version of the character with Ruth Plumly Thompson's version. In Hardenbrook's novel, Locasta and Queen Orin were ""switched"" by Mombi, the same way Mombi ""switched"" herself with the maid Jellia Jamb in L. Frank Baum's novel, ""The Marvelous Land of Oz"". Locasta, the true Good Witch of the North, was lost in the Great Outside World, while"
"of the West and Galinda, the beautiful, blonde, popular girl who grows up to become Glinda the Good Witch of the South. The story is divided into five different sections based on the plot location, and presents events, characters, and situations from L. Frank Baum's ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" (1900) and its 1939 film adaptation in new ways. It is designed to set the reader thinking about what it really is to be ""Wicked"", and whether good intentions with bad results are the same as bad intentions with bad results. Schwartz considered how best to condense the novel's dense"
"may derive from its use in sword and sorcery, where the hero would be the sword-wielder, leaving the sorcery for his opponent. ""Witch"" also carries evil connotations. L. Frank Baum named Glinda the ""Good Witch of the South"" in ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"". In ""The Marvelous Land of Oz, ""he dubbed her ""Glinda the Good,"" and from that point forward and in subsequent books, Baum referred to her as a sorceress rather than a witch to avoid the term that was more regarded as evil. ""Wizard"" and ""warlock"" usually refer to a male, while ""witch"" usually refers to a"
"Schwartz persuaded Maguire to release the rights to a stage production while also making what Schwartz called an ""impassioned plea"" to Universal producer Marc Platt to realize Schwartz's own intended adaptation. Persuaded, Platt signed on as joint producer of the project with Universal and David Stone. The novel, described as a political, social, and ethical commentary on the nature of good and evil, takes place in the Land of Oz, in the years leading to Dorothy's arrival. The story centers on Elphaba, the misunderstood, smart, and fiery girl of emerald-green skin who grows up to become the notorious Wicked Witch"
"could be the most powerful malevolent or benign witch ever. John Gregory Also known as the Spook. A seventh son of a seventh son, he has kept the forces of the dark at bay for many years in the County. He has trained many apprentices, though precious few are any good, Tom will be his last. Thomas' Mam also known as Lamia. A beautiful enchantress who fell in love with and bore children to the Old God Zeus. She fell under the influence of the dark after Hera, in a fit of rage, killed all but one of her children."
"points of the compass. Belial, half-mad and trapped in the form of a dragon, rules the Northern Regency. Leviathan, a kindly woman in the shape of a sea serpent, oversees the Western Regency. Satan rules the South with his loyal servant Beelzebub, trapped in the body of a golden retriever. Lucifer rules the East, with his consort Lilith, who had previously been briefly involved with Satan. Yaweh oversees all of Heaven from the center, aided by his healer Raphael and warrior Michael. Other important angels include the blind musician Harut, the poetry-quoting Ariel, the craftsman Asmodai, the smirking Mephistopheles, the"
"nothing but a puddle and her clothes and infamous hat on the floor where she once stood. Dorothy returns to the Wizard with the green potion bottle that has been kept in the family for years. He recognises the bottle. The bottle was the potion that subdued Elphaba's mother Melena in some way, though how is uncertain. It is implied that the Wizard is the father of Elphaba. (Elphaba, around the age of 2 or 3, had a vision along with Turtle Heart of the Wizard arriving, but later events confirm that the Wizard [Oscar Zoroaster Diggs] was indeed her"
"she returned several hundred years later before once again disappearing behind the waterfall. This in turn connects Elphaba with the stories that Sarima tells her children about a wicked witch who disappears into a cave. At the end of the story it's tradition that the children ask if the witch ever comes out, to which Sarima replies ""not yet"". At the end of ""Wicked"", that dialogue is repeated and ""not yet"" are actually the final two words that close out the book, suggesting that Elphaba will eventually rise again. Furthermore, in several interviews, Maguire has stated ""a witch may die,"
"Oz. While there, the group encounters the Queen of the Field Mice who mentioned that the constant rains have forced the Field Mice out of their burrows and even detect the presence of the Wicked Witch of the East's ghost. After a part of the Yellow Brick Road is put back in place and the Wicked Witch of the East's ghost disappears, the Munchkins and the Field Mice celebrate the spell being broken as Dorothy's group boards Tugg and heads down the Munchkin River once more. In Maguire's novel, Boq is a childhood friend of Elphaba and a classmate of"
"tries to help by giving Nessarose the power to walk by turning the silver slippers into the ""ruby slippers"". Convinced that Boq must love her now, Nessarose calls for him, but he only sees this as proof that she does not need him anymore. Hurt, Nessarose takes Elphaba's spell book and tries to cast a spell to make Boq fall in love with her. However, the spell backfires, making her the ""Wicked Witch of the East"", by shrinking Boq's heart (""The Wicked Witch Of The East""). Elphaba must work another spell to save his life, if in a different condition"
"of the West are ""Elphaba"" (""Wicked""), ""Theodora"" (""Oz the Great and Powerful""), ""Zelena"" (""Once Upon a Time""), ""Evillene"" (""The Wiz""), and ""Azkadellia"" (""Tin Man""). There are similar issues regarding portrayals of the Wicked Witch of the East, but she is not as prevalent in the public conscious as her Western sister. Copyright status of The Wizard of Oz and related works in the United States The copyright status of ""The Wizard of Oz"" and related works is complicated for several reasons. The book series is very long-running, and written by multiple authors, so the books often fall on opposite sides"
"as they thought (""A Sentimental Man""). He promises Elphaba that he will grant her request if she proves herself. Madame Morrible appears; she is the Wizard's new ""press secretary"". She gives Elphaba an ancient book of spells, called the ""Grimmerie"", which only the magically gifted can read. Elphaba is asked to try a levitation spell on the Wizard's monkey servant, Chistery. However, the spell does not go the way Elphaba plans when Chistery sprouts wings, and she realizes that the Wizard is the one behind the suppression of the Animals. Elphaba realizes the Wizard has no powers; he is merely"
"Zelena to be jealous of her younger sister and her skin turns green with envy. "" Shortly after, Glinda, the Witch of the South, recruits Zelena into a sisterhood of witches. Along with the Witch of the East and the Witch of the North, the trio believe Zelena is destined to join them because of a prophecy foretelling of a sorceress arriving by cyclone and becoming the Witch of the West. Zelena is still obsessed about changing her past, but with Glinda's encouragement, she decides her own future as a good witch is more important. After receiving a pendant to"
"presents them to Dorothy. They have enough power remaining that Dorothy can travel once more to Oz and back to Kansas. In """" (1995), the silver shoes are a gift to Nessarose (the Wicked Witch of the East) before she and her sister, Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) start college. They are made by her father using special glass beads another man (Turtle Heart, possibly her biological father) taught him to make, which make the shoes shiny and iridescent, not necessarily a true silver. They are later enchanted by Glinda (the Good Witch of the North) to give"
"only because she had killed the Wicked Witch of the East, but because her dress is blue and white checked. Ozma, once on the throne, prohibits the use of magic by anyone other than Glinda the Good, the Wizard of Oz, and herself – as, earlier, the Good Witch of the North had prohibited magic by any other witch in her domains. The illicit use of magic is a frequent feature of villains in later works in the series, appearing in ""The Scarecrow of Oz"", ""Rinkitink in Oz"", ""The Lost Princess of Oz"", ""The Tin Woodman of Oz"", and ""The"