Wicked the musical and The Wizard of Oz are based on the same book. L. Frank Baum, who created the Land of Oz, wrote 14 Oz books. Baum's first novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was released in 1900.

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 ...

This is a direct reference to a scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Wicked Elphaba creates a field of poppies to slow down Dorothy and her friends on their way to Emerald City.

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.

"The Wizard of Oz" is America's favorite children's book. ... (Dorothy, Glinda, Ozma), with men like the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion as bumbling sidekicks.

The Yellow Brick Road is a well-traveled one. Since Judy Garland donned the ruby slippers and first skipped down it in the 1939 film adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wizard of Oz ...

Over the last 85 years, there has been no shortage of actresses who have played the red ruby slipper-wearing Dorothy Gale as she travels through the merry old Land of Oz. It began with the late ...

In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy Gale goes on a journey, one that takes her down the Yellow Brick Road and all the way to the Emerald City with plenty of adventure in between.Now, a pair ...

All of these Wizard of Oz offshoots are worthwhile, but if you’re looking for something that actually moves the Oz story forward, rather than looking back, the choice is, oddly, perhaps the ...