Wicked

Now running at the Gershwin Theatre, *Wicked* is a Broadway musical by composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz with a book by Winnie Holzman, drawing on Gregory Maguire’s revisionist take on Oz. The story tracks the uneasy friendship between Elphaba and Glinda, set against a political order that turns dissent into villainy before and after Dorothy arrives. Premiering on Broadway in 2003, it became a durable New York fixture and a reference point for 21st-century Broadway spectacle. Its sharpest move is to treat reputation as something manufactured, not earned.