Wicked follows The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba ... In the film, Elphaba sends Nessarose flying, overturning benches and cracking open walls. When Elphaba flies on the broom at the ...
The Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and Oscar-nominated British performer has gone from relative obscurity to becoming one of the defining faces of 2024 in just over five years, thanks to her role as Elphaba and ...
The movie doesn’t turn Elphaba’s verdancy into an allegory for blackness, but there are echoes of racial discrimination beneath the juvenile taunting she endures. (The character’s styling also ...