Its plot begins before and continues after Dorothy Gale arrives in Oz from Kansas. The show is told from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film adaptation. It is based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, in turn based on L. Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman.
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Musicalĭrama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Musical
Multiple international productions ( see below)ĭrama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical
May 28, 2003: Curran Theatre, San Francisco Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Official poster of the original Broadway production