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
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz Woggle-Bug Book" (1905). The project was designed to promote "The Marvelous Land of Oz". Coincidentally, it ran at the same time as a comic strip featuring Oz characters that was written and drawn by W. W. Denslow. Denslow has drawn the illustrations for "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and shared in its copyright. After Baum and Denslow had a falling out, Denslow exercised his copyright through his strip, called "Denslow's Scarecrow and Tin-Man", which ran in relatively few newspapers from December 1904 to March 1905—an artistic and commercial failure. "The Visitors from Oz", published by Reilly and Lee in 1960,