{"id":24,"date":"2009-09-05T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-09-05T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T15:26:24","slug":"wicked-character-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wicked-character-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Character List"},"content":{"rendered":"

In all my months writing about Wicked the Musical, I have never come across such an innovative way to produce a vast description<\/a> of the characters in Wicked and their growth from Gregory Maguire\u2019s story to the one we are all familiar with in the film \u201cThe Wizard of Oz.\u201d
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\nThe Wicked Witch of the West<\/strong>: An instant outcast for her green skin, Elphaba slowly acquires the trappings of witchdom throughout the first act – the magic, the hat, the broom, even the flying monkeys. But as for the wicked part, well, that\u2019s pure propaganda, because she\u2019s willing to fight the power (\u201dDefying Gravity\u201d is her big showstopper). The role was originated on Broadway by Idina Menzel, who also starred in the original production of \u201cRent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glinda<\/strong>: A mispronunciation of Galinda, the perky blonde at Shiz U who\u2019s still good, but a little bit witchier than we remember her from the classic movie. She takes a dislike to Elphaba but has a change of heart, giving her a makeover during her signature tune, \u201cPopular.\u201d The original Glinda was Kristen Chenoweth, who moved on to Hollywood with roles in \u201cThe West Wing\u201d and the recent film comedy \u201cFour Christmases.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wizard<\/strong>: Oz\u2019s scheming tyrant, who\u2019s responsible for the oppression of the kingdom\u2019s talking animals. The legendary Joel Grey originated the role on Broadway.<\/p>\n

The Cowardly Lion<\/strong>: We meet him as a cub in a cage. Elphaba breaks him out because she learns that cages keep magical animals from learning how to talk. \u201cWicked\u201d also serves up creative origin stories for the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, but revealing those would spoil things.<\/p>\n

Dorothy<\/strong>: As for little Miss \u201cOver the Rainbow,\u201d her house still kills the Wicked Witch of the East – Elphaba\u2019s sister – but she doesn\u2019t even get onstage. Instead, she\u2019s just a faceless pawn manipulated by forces she can\u2019t possibly understand. And is that how the current generation views its parents? Sorry, Judy!<\/p>\n

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In all my months writing about Wicked the Musical, I have never come across such an innovative way to produce a vast description of the characters in Wicked and their growth from Gregory Maguire\u2019s story to the one we are all familiar with in the film \u201cThe Wizard of Oz.\u201d [ad#blog-ad-1] The Wicked Witch of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}