Wicked (musical) Wicked (musical) Wicked is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel "", a retelling of the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film "The Wizard of Oz" and L. Frank Baum's classic 1900 novel, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". The musical is told from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz; its plot begins before and continues after Dorothy Gale's arrival in Oz from Kansas, and it includes several references to the 1939 film and Baum's novel. "Wicked" tells the story of two unlikely
The Wizard of Oz on television television. After the film went to cable that year, TV showings of the movie became increasingly more frequent, and the tradition of televising it only once a year ended, at least in the U.S. "The Wizard of Oz" has become perhaps the most famous film to be shown regularly on U.S. television, and one of the most cherished. Of the many family-oriented musical fantasies broadcast after the successful 1955 version of the Mary Martin "Peter Pan", "The Wizard of Oz" is the only one which is still shown regularly. Following the 1956 premiere, there were no rebroadcasts of the film