Wicked (NY)
About This Event
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.
About Wicked(musical)
Now running at Midtown’s Gershwin Theatre, *Wicked* is Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s Broadway musical that reframes the Oz story through the friendship between Elphaba and Glinda. Set before and after Dorothy’s arrival, it follows their competing ideals as power consolidates around the Wizard and dissent is punished. The show opened in New York in 2003 and became a long-term fixture of the city’s commercial theater ecology. Its sharpest move is to treat villainy as a political label, not a personality trait.