Wicked was Maguire's first novel for adults (he'd written children's books before). Maguire himself has made a career out of re-imagining classic stories, from Snow White in Mirror, Mirror to Cinderella in The Ugly Stepsister. It's not a clone it's something else.' ( source) I recognize that it's another generation. but that's not to say that I disapprove of them. It does do some things to the story that I wouldn't have done myself, and that I didn't do myself. 'I feel like I stand in an avuncular, grandfatherly relation to the Broadway play. He explains that both his novel and the subsequent musical are just two things in a long line of creative productions that inhabit the world of Oz. It came out in 2003 and it's still being performed all over the place, which isn't all that common for Broadway shows.īut author Gregory Maguire doesn't really mind that Wicked the novel is overshadowed by its musical adaptation. But the musical Wicked is a sort of pop cultural icon. Not to say that the novel hasn't done extremely well it's sold over 2.5 million copies since its publication in 1995. The same thing happens with Wicked the novel is kind of overshadowed by its own spinoff, in this case a Broadway musical entitled Wicked. Frank Baum's original novel, published in 1900 and entitled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. When people think of The Wizard of Oz, they probably think first of the classic 1939 movie starring Judy Garland, not L. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Introduction

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