Description: Original Broadway Cast


Synopsis: The Untold Story Of The Witches Of Oz.

Featured Artist: Kristin Chenoweth  Joel Grey  Idina Menzel  Eddie Korbich  Norbert Leo Butz  Jan Neuberger  Sean McCourt  Michelle Federer  Andrew Palermo  Carole Shelley  Adinah Alexander  Christopher Fitzgerald  Manuel Herrera  William Youmans  Cristy Candler  Kathy Deitch  Andy Pellick  Ioana Alfonso  Ben Cameron  Kristy Cates  Marcus Choi  Kristoffer Cusick  Melissa Fahn  Rhett G. George  Kristen Leigh Gorski  Kisha Howard  LJ Jellison  Corinne McFadden  Mark Myars  Walter Winston Oneil  Michael Seelbach  Charlie Sutton  Lorna Ventura  Derrick Williams  Melissa Bell Chait  

Composer: Stephen Schwartz  

Lyricist: Stephen Schwartz 

Author: Director: Special Feature: Release date: 24/08/2006
Format: CD
Year of recording: 2003
Number of disc: 1
Number of pages: Classification: Running time:

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Although best remembered for the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum`s series of early 20th century novels about the fairyland Oz have inspired a number of theatrical and cinematic adaptations, beginning with a Broadway musical version of The Wizard of Oz for which Baum himself provided the libretto and lyrics that opened in 1903, only three years after The first publication of the initial book, and including the 1975 all-black Broadway musical The Wiz. In an era rife with sequels and "prequels" to successful properties that has reached back retroactively to include authorized and unauthorized re-imaginings of works such as Gone with the Wind, Gregory Maguire`s 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West purported to depict the backstory of the villainess of The Wizard of Oz and her counterpart, Glinda the Good. Of course, Maguire`s retelling was a revisionist interpretation in which the Wicked Witch turned out to be a misunderstood character with lots of justifications for turning "bad" (one of them being prejudiced reactions to her green skin color), while Glinda was made into more of a goody-goody than actually good, not to mention being something of a dumb-blonde cheerleader type. Theatrical composer Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin) saw the obvious stage possibilities, and his musical version, Wicked, opened on Broadway on October 30, 2003