In The Wizard of Oz franchise, Glinda the Good has been a staple character in every iteration, from the original book to Wicked, which introduces her relationship with Elphaba.However, in the ...

How does Wicked tie into or connect with The Wizard of Oz? ... Baum’s 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Baum's book inspired the 1939 ... also lands on the Witch, melting her ...

Warner Bros. and Dynamite Entertainment are releasing a graphic novel adaptation of The Wizard of Oz by writer/artist Soo Lee ...

Virtually all of today's "Oz" variations take off, not from the Baum books, but from the 1939 movie, where Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch stole the show. Baum's books are still in print.

Loosely based on the original 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" written by L. Frank Baum, "Wicked" tells the background story of the witches we meet in Oz during Dorothy's famous visit.

In short, people are finding Oz everywhere but in the original books by L. Frank Baum — who invented the place in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) and its 13 sequels (after his death in 1919 ...

More than 50 years after Hamilton wore toxic copper-based face paint to appear green in The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ...

That's the mantra of Glinda, "Wicked's" bubbly good witch. And it applies, equally, to the "Oz" stories where she made her first appearance. They've always been popular. With children, parents ...