Many scenes of Elphaba's childhood were among the cuts in Maguire’s “hefty brick of manuscript pages” when the book was first published in 1995, he tells USA TODAY. This prequel fills in ...

Cynthia Erivo stars as Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, before she turned evil. Glinda the Good Witch, aka Galinda (played by Ariana Grande), is key to Elphaba’s ...

Gregory Maguire's Wickedprequel book, Elphie: A Wicked Childhood, is finally here, and it reveals that Elphaba is much younger than I originally thought. While Wicked chronicles the backstory of ...

If you were enchanted by 2024's smash hit movie “Wicked,” you might enjoy reading Elphaba’s backstory. Author Gregory Maguire, whose book inspired the movie and the musical, spoke with The Culture ...

The talented 31-year-old has been open about taking pride in her teeth imperfections after being bullied about them growing ...

TODAY Elphaba is getting her own origin story! Here are the details Posted: March 25, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025 Author Gregory Maguire wrote the book “Wicked” as a prequel to “The ...

Elphie, a new prequel novel exploring the childhood of Wicked's Elphaba Thropp, is now on shelves. In an interview with the Today Show, filmed at New York's Drama Book Shop, author Gregory Maguire ...