About the Artist

Wicked is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, adapted from Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The story reimagines the Land of Oz before and after The Wizard of Oz, focusing on the unlikely friendship between Elphaba, a smart, green-skinned outcast who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and Galinda, a popular blonde who later becomes Glinda the Good Witch, exploring themes of identity, perception, and social prejudice through powerful songs and theatrical spectacle.