Wicked (book, play, and possible movie)

• Gregory Maguire (he wrote the original book)

• NPR interview with Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked, Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men

• Reviews of the novels Wicked, Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men

• Out of Oz, the fourth and concluding volume

• A review of Out of Oz

• Gregory Maguire and the Occupy Oz movement (WARNING: Some slightly coarse language)

• Wicked and the maturing of the Oz audience — [Part 1] [Part 2] (Stick with them both, Wicked does show up)

• The official Wicked: The Musical site (North America)
  • Behind the Emerald Curtain, a behind-the-scenes tour

• Wicked at the Playbill site — [A] [B]

• Wicked on MySpace

• Wicked on Facebook

• Wicked in the United Kingdom
  • Extended to April 2015
  • Now touring the British Isles
  • The tour is coming to Bristol

• Wicked in Japan

• Wicked in Australia

• Wicked in the Netherlands

• Wicked on tour trailer

• The official Wicked YouTube channel

• Interview with Dee Roscioli, who has now played Elphaba more times than anyone else

• Jennifer DiNoia, one of the Elphabas on tour

• Walker Jones, one of the Wizards on tour

• Composer Stephen Schwartz's Wicked site

• The Shiz University Yearbook

• Wicked's fifth anniversary, including the Yellow Brick Road not taken...

• Wicked's tenth anniversary:
  • New deluxe cast album
  • Around the World Countdown
  • A review of ten years
  • It's still popular with teenagers
  • "The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz" retrospective
  • At the 2014 Tony Awards
  • A look back at the actors who have played:
    • Fiyero
    • Madame Morrible
    • Boq
    • The Wizard
    • Glinda
    • Elphaba

• John Travolta mispronounces Idina Menzel's name at the 2014 Oscars — [A] [B]

• P. J. Benjamin (playing the Wizard) talks tolerance and the message of the show

• Wicked The Musical: A Pop-Up Compendium of Splendiferous Delight and Thrillifying Intrigue — take a look at the video trailer on this page

• A review of Wicked

• Behind the scenes at the tour's 2012 Seattle stop

• Elphaba Yourself

• Discussion forum for Wicked, both the book and the play

• Verdigris, a bulletin board for all things Wicked

• 31 Signs That You're Obsessed with Wicked

• Show Business: The Road to Broadway — a documentary chronicle of the 2003 Broadway season, which includes behind-the-scenes footage of Wicked

• Video: "For Good" cover by Sam Tsui and Nick Pitera

• "For Good" performed by Jenn Gambatese and Alison Luff

• A fan sings "For Good" with Kristin Chenoweth at the Hollywood Bowl!

• Megan Hilty gets serenaded with "Popular"

• 13 Villains Who Deserve Their Own Movies (One guess as to who the very first one is!)

• Stephen Schwartz talks about the movie version

• Elphaba meets Grumpy Cat!

• The latest update on the movie (as of February 2013)

• Stephen Schwartz has started work on the film

• So what if the Wicked movie were to be...animated??!!?? — [A] [B] [C]

• Wicked fan fiction

• Of Witches && Wizards, an Australian Wicked role-playing game

• Cracked magazine explains and analyzes Wicked (CAUTION: some naughty language, which shouldn't be a problem if you've read the book...)

• Review of the Wicked iPhone app

• Wicked cakes! (you'll need to scroll down a bit)

• Isaac Newton defies gravity!

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