Hi Irishrose,irishrosem wrote:Huh. Is Wicked a parody of the book or the movie? I'm confused now.
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I'm not sure I am 100% clear on your question, but I am assuming you are asking if the book was based on the broadway show or on the movie "The Wizard of OZ"? The book "Wicked" was written first in 1995 I believe as sort of a spinoff/combination of the origial book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and the movie "The Wizard of Oz". It's kind of a combination becase Gregory Maguire took elements from the book and the movie, such as he made the "ruby" slippers silver, as they were in the original 1900 book, but made the wicked witch green and I read that the witch was never green in the original book but she was made green for the movie. So he seems to have taken a combination of the book and movie and spun his own story about the witch herself around it. The broadway show is then based on Gregory Maguire's book. I hope I answered your question.