The meeting of these two contrasting characters is the strength of this story.
You're green.
I am.
And how they change each other, how they help to balance each other, how they learn to love one another, that's a beautiful thing to be able to create and represent visually.
For over 20 years, Wicked, the musical prequel of sorts to The Wizard of Oz, has been thrillifying audiences across the globe.
When the musical opened at the Gershwin Theatre on October 30, 2003, where it remains to this day, it propelled stars Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth into the stratosphere as household names.
Since its Broadway debut, Wicked has become one of the most successful musicals of our time, and is currently the fourth-longest-running and second-highest-grossing musical on Broadway.
And almost as instantly as the musical hit Broadway, discussions of adapting it for the silver screen began, resulting in a nearly 20-year journey leading to Wicked's feature film debut, releasing across two parts in 2024 and 2025.
But the origins of Wicked extend much further back, beginning with the 1900 children's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by author L. Frank Baum, which some of you die-hard fans may recognize as the origins for the name Elphaba.
I would say that my first connection to Wicked was the Broadway show.
