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	Wicked (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wicked (ISBN 0-06-098710-3), or Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, is a novel by Gregory Maguire.
		A sequel to Wicked, entitled Son of a Witch, was published in fall of 2005.
		Elphaba acquired her green skin through one of her mother's affairs (a man of unknown ethnicity and a green liquid in a green bottle that he feeds to the pregnant Melena) and was also born with incredibly sharp teeth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wicked_(novel) (1994 words)

	Wicked - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wicked (novel), a novel by Gregory Maguire based on L.
		Wicked (hacker), Wicked is the call sign of one of the internet's infamous Old School hackers.
		Wicked as an adverb meaning "very" originated in Puritanical New England with the idea that anything that was fun, exciting or good was "wicked".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wicked (288 words)

	The Book by Gregory Maguire: Wicked on Broadway
		Wicked the musical is loosely based on the book of the same name by Gregory Maguire, famous for his revisionist adaptations of classic children's tales for adults.
		I liked the connections made to the original novel, and when things diverged too far, as in the middle of the novel, things slowed down and were much less interesting.
		She appears at the Philosophy Club, in the mauntery, and in numerous other places in the novel, but is never fully explained, leaving the reader to make an inference he or she is never prepared to make.
	www.wickedonbroadway.net /book.html (951 words)

	Review \| Wicked by Gregory Maguire
		The novel is a wildly ambitious work, introducing us to Elphaba at the moment of her birth.
		Wicked is a fable, and while it certainly augments the original story, it doesn't, in all fairness, change too much about it.
		While the novel is its source, the musical presents only pieces of it, in a much simplified form, and often diverging wildly from the novel's narrative.
	www.januarymagazine.com /SFF/wicked.html (1367 words)

	Floridian: 'Wicked' good fortune
		Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West was a steady seller, but it vaulted into another dimension once the musical opened on Broadway in 2003.
		Wicked is about a green-skinned girl named Elphaba (derived from the initials of L. Frank Baum) who grows up to be the Wicked Witch of the West, but her identity is more complex than the sinister crone of the movie.
		Wicked is something of a throwback in that it meshes dialogue and musical numbers in more or less equal measure, unlike the entirely sung pop operas of the 1980s, The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables, that shaped the art form for years.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/01/15/Floridian/_Wicked__good_fortune.shtml (1962 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Concord man pens 'Wicked' smash
		The Los Angeles Times called ''Wicked" ''a staggering feat of wordcraft," ''the best fantasy novel of ideas," and said Maguire had created ''one of the great heroines in fantasy literature: a fiery, passionate, unforgettable and ultimately tragic figure." Maguire, who now lives in West Concord, started getting movie offers the next morning.
		He's finishing his fifth adult novel, ''Son of A Witch," which debuts this fall, and is entertaining the idea of writing a screenplay or a theater script.
		It's the children's novel that he is most proud of and that relies most on his own experience, having spent some time in an orphanage after his mother died.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/04/24/concord_man_pens_wicked_smash?pg=full (803 words)

	Wizardry required - The Boston Globe
		What endures from the novel, Holzman and Schwartz agree, is what Holzman calls the ''very brilliant idea" that ''you think you know the story, but you don't know the story.
		The novel, Schwartz says, explores the complexity of good and evil in part by asking whether the Wicked Witch is truly wicked or Glinda the Good truly good.
		That's hardly surprising from a writer who, before ''Wicked," was best known for the richly dimensional female characters she created for television, in ''My So-Called Life" and ''Once and Again." But it's also, Holzman says, something she came to believe was always integral to Oz.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/04/09/wizardry_required (939 words)

	Wicked (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wicked Tickets to see the show at the Gershwin Theatre in New York.
		With a contemporary viewpoint that turns the original on its head, Wicked, the novel, is considerably darker and it has distinctively political overtones.
		So the Wicked Witch's wickedness is given psychological underpinning and she becomes a sympathetic character, while the Good Witch is--well, a blond who needs some lessons in life.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater5/Wicked.htm (1077 words)

	Book Information: Wicked :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story.
		Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence.
		And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.
	www.iblist.com /book.php?id=3023 (236 words)

	Tufts E-News -- The Other Side of the Rainbow
		Bound for Broadway, ‘Wicked’ – the best-selling novel by Tufts graduate Gregory Maguire –; tells the story of ‘The Wizard of Oz’; from a new perspective: the Wicked Witch of the West.
		Taking the point of view of the Wicked Witch of the West, the Tufts graduate details what life was like along the yellow brick road before the cyclone swept Dorothy’s house into Munchkinland.
		Indeed, when the novel was first published in 1995, critics raved about Maguire’s ability to add new layers of fantasy to a timeless classic – including noted author John Updike, who called Wicked “an amazing novel” in an article in The New Yorker.
	www.tufts.edu /communications/stories/062003Wicked.htm (949 words)

	Wicked
		It is all within Gregory Maguire's novel "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," a cleverly conceived (I am told) prequel to Frank L. Baum's beloved children's classic "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which, of course, led to the film "The Wizard of Oz."
		Not having read the novel, I can't attest to whether the musical copies the same satirical thrust of the novel, but I would wager that the campy tone that buoys the text when it gets a bit too moralizing is probably unique to the musical.
		The journey reveals Glinda as not quite as good as she could be, and Elphaba as an outcast and animal activist who is soon embittered when her idealism is denounced in a land ruled by political correctness, racism, and a corrupt government.
	www.theaterscene.net /ts/articles.nsf/BM/CBF8D5075A4BCD6385256DDC006CF6A6 (845 words)

	The Haworth Press Online Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wicked Angels is the exquisite English translation of the classic 1955 French literary novel Les Mauvais Anges, banned for thirty years for what was called its 'subversive' subject matter.
		The novel is a profoundly lyrical ode to adolescent love and sexuality, as well as a bold and elegant rejection of society's values while on the road to self-destruction.
		Wicked Angels lives on as a passionate and ultimately tragic story of extreme and ill-fated love that transcends conceptions of gender, youth, and class in society.
	www.haworthpress.com /store/product.asp?sku=5402 (671 words)

	Stage Review: 'Wicked' a clever retelling of mythical Oz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There's an impression out there that "Wicked," the 2003 musical that adds a revisionist back story to the "Wizard of Oz" story we know so well, is a natural favorite of teenage girls.
		"Wicked" comes equipped with all the trimmings of a musical blockbuster, including grandiose and eerie sets by Eugene Lee, witty/bizarre costumes by Susan Hilferty and great stage effects, such as Elphaba's first flight and the mist in which she casts a spell.
		But "Wicked" is also smart enough to see the banality and sentimentality of power.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06056/660889.stm (863 words)

	Wicked The Musical - Los Angeles
		WICKED is produced by Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.
		WICKED, by far the highest grossing show on Broadway and across the country, currently has three companies in North America: on Broadway; on a National Tour; and in a separate, open-ended engagement at Chicago’s Ford Center for Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre.
		WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.
	www.wickedthemusical.com /la (947 words)

	How to Save the World
		Every implemented solution to a wicked problem has consequences, some of which are unforeseeable or adverse.
		Wicked problems do not have a well-described set of potential solutions (it's a matter of individual judgement).
		Every wicked problem can be considered a symptom of another problem (there is no constant or 'root' problem underlying others in the set).
	blogs.salon.com /0002007/2005/10/12.html (1341 words)

	The Novel
		Wicked is more deeper and the connections that Fiyero is the scarecrow and Boq the Tinman aren't in the book.
		The novel is terrific, but don't read it if you're expecting it to be anything like the musical.
		The novel explores the social causes and identifiers of "wicked" behaviour.
	musicals.net /forums/archive.php/the-novel__o_t__t_48290.html (1252 words)

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		The lexicographic credentials of Pavic's novel foreground their own dubiousness from the very moment that it is encountered on the shelves of a bookshop or lending library.
		A reflection of this is found in the novel's title, which does not include an initial definite article to suggest that what the reader has to hand is the dictionary of the Khazars.
		The similarities in this passage with the motif of the reader's death, and, in view of the bipartite format of the novel as a whole, with that of companion texts, are self-evident.
	www.altx.com /ebr/ebr8/8callus.htm (5011 words)

	Amazon.com: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Musical Tie-in Edition): Books: Gregory Maguire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Maguire's Oz, Elphaba, better known as the Wicked Witch of the West, is not wicked; nor is she a formally schooled witch.
		I picked up Wicked, knowing nothing except that its subject matter was the Wicked Witch of the West, to be drawn immediately into Maguire's splendidly imagined world of sentient animals, multiple societies, and unique physical laws.
		"Wicked" gives Elphaba otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the West a unique personality and follows her from birth through her personal tragedies and ethical and moral turmoil to her death.
	www.amazon.com /Wicked-Times-Witch-Musical-Tie-in/dp/0060745908 (2087 words)

	The Crow: Wicked Prayer
		The premise of Wicked Prayer, the movie, is loosely based on the same-name novel by Norman Partridge.
		For those that have read the novel and are familiar with the characters from it, we felt it would help you out to know what characters have been kept for the movie, with their new names, and those that are totally new.
		In the novel, Johnny was a supporting character role to Kyra Damon.
	www.abahbnews.com /thecrow4/index.html (858 words)

	Wicked Tickets
		Wicked is based on one of the best selling novels, "Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witches of the West", written by Gregory Maguire.
		Wicked has enthralled millions of spectators in every theater, if you want to be one of them, than buy tickets to Wicked now, and be a part of the crowd.
		Wicked is an ambitious musical intended to satisfy both adults and children, with strong themes in a surprisingly complex book by Winnie Holzman.
	www.activehowto.com /how-to/17/137/2284.htm (1923 words)

	The Crow: Wicked Prayer News
		THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER is inspired by the same-name novel by Norman Partridge.
		The novel, though a good read, had issues, mainly the villains had far more emphasis and the lead “good” character was basically put in the backseat of the story.
		Wicked Prayer is unlike any of the previous Crow films in regard to the look and style.
	www.abahbnews.com /thecrow4/reviews.html (4808 words)

	A 'Wicked' awesome musical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Originally a novel written by Gregory Maguire, “Wicked” comes to the stage creating a sense of imagination and magic to the audience.
		Although the novel and the musical are not so much alike, the main focus of how the wicked witch came to be is still evident.
		Wicked will be running in Chicago for a few years, so you have plenty of time to see it.
	depaulia.depaul.edu /story.asp?artid=1041§id=5 (703 words)

	Amazon.ca: Wicked: Music: Kristin Chenoweth,Stephen Schwartz,Idina Menzel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wicked runs into the opposite problem: it has a great plot but too often the songs just get in the way.
		I saw Wicked in Toronto, sadly I didn't get to see the originals on broadway, but Stephanie Block and Kendra Kassebaum (as Elphaba and Glinda respectively) were perfect.
		All in all, however, Wicked is an enjoyable musical, and it's even better if you have the oppertunity of seeing it performed on Broadway (although, if you plan on seeing it, I recommend listening to the album after seeing the show).
	www.amazon.ca /Wicked-Kristin-Chenoweth/dp/B0000TB01Y (1738 words)

	'Wicked' novel spawns sequel \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		The author of the best seller "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," which inspired the hit Tony-nominated Broadway musical, originally had thought he'd write about Adolf Hitler.
		The novel wasn't an instant hit when it came out 10 years ago, but it soon became a cult favorite.
		"Son of a Witch" begins 10 years after "Wicked" ends, and it tells the story of a possible son of Elphaba, Liir, struggling with his identity and purpose, should he be evil's offspring.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/105187 (703 words)

	Tufts E-News -- 'Wicked' Earns 10 Tony Nominations
		But there was no escaping her this week, as “Wicked” – a Broadway show based on the bestselling book by Tufts graduate Gregory Maguire –; dazzled Tony award voters with her side of the Oz story.
		“’Wicked’, the musical inspired by ‘The Wizard of Oz’; that delves into the past of the Wicked Witch of the West, captured 10 Tony Award nominations, burying its competition somewhere under Auntie Em’s house,” reported the New York Times.
		Based on Gregory Maguire’s bestselling novel, “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” the musical has been enchanting audiences as one of most beloved Broadway productions of the year – garnering both rave reviews from critics and big box office sales.
	www.tufts.edu /communications/stories/051204Wicked.htm (567 words)

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