The musical was a complete abomination of the book, which did, in fact come first. If a parent willingly lets their child buy a book (an adult book) without knowing its contents, the parent is to blame for their child learning the information. I have both read the book and seen the musical. There's always a different side to a story, and in the case of Oz, this is it. This tale is more real, and more like life as we know and experience it, than the original. In Maguire's delightful telling, we learn of Glinda's obsession with status and fashion, the Wizard's inhumanity, and the friendships, loves, and lost loves of little green Elphalba, the story's moral center, who is ultimately destroyed by innocent Dorothy. The Wicked Witch wasn't born a witch, nor wicked. Author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Maguire seems to revel in turning our beloved fairy tales upside down, and having us rethink our cherished notions of absolute good and evil.
How did the Wicked Witch of the West, from Frank Baum's Oz stories, get to be so wicked? Gregory Maguire tells her story, in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. | The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown » AugWicked - Gregory Maguire « Memories, Dreams, and Reflections - Carl Gustav Jung |
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