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LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the hit movie “Wicked,” those famous magical shoes are silver. But if you want to see them in all their ...

The logline for Wicked reads, “Elphaba (Erivo), a misunderstood young woman because of her green skin, and Glinda (Grande), a popular girl, become friends at Shiz University in the Land of Oz.

A heart is shown not by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others,” goes the familiar line spoken by Oz in ...

In The Wizard of Oz, Glinda is supposed to help Dorothy get back home, but really, she does nothing except tell the girl to follow the yellow brick road to find the Wizard – the only one who can ...

Glinda of Oz was the 14th and final book of Frank Baum's original series and was also published posthumously. There was some ...

The book then flashes forward five years and ... but this isn't true and Dorothy kills her like in The Wizard of Oz. As for Glinda, she marries an older named Sir Chuffrey and becomes known ...

For example, there was no mention in Baum's book of the Wicked Witch having green ... contrast to the evil witch seen in The Wizard of Oz. Glinda, meanwhile, can be vapid, selfish and downright ...

With Ariana Grande’s Glinda and Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba ... which is an adaptation of a book – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum – that was a prequel to the original Wizard ...