Wicked

If you just know the story of Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, you don't know half the story.

There was a whole world full of histories and stories before Dorothy fell in on the land of Oz. One of those stories was never mentioned in the stories of L. Frank Baum, the story of the Wicked Witch of the West. We know her as the wicked witch that hated Dorothy for having taken the magical ruby slippers of the Wicked Witch of the East. But why did she hate the girl so for that? What was the slippers to the Wicked Witch of the West that she would hate Dorothy having them?

That is only one of the mysteries that Wicked explains as it unfolds from the point of view of the witches of Oz. Following the life of the Wicked Witch of the West, Wicked explores what made her the witch that Dorothy met.

After it's publication as a novel in 1995, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, Wicked found its way to Broadway as a musical where mixed reviews from critics did little to slow the sale of Wicked tickets that owed most of their sales to word-of-mouth.

By the end of 2004, its first year, Wicked grossed more than $56 million. By the week ending January 1, 2006, it was announced that Wicked had broken the record previously held by The Producers for the highest weekly box office gross in Broadway history.