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Wicked is one of the most successful musicals ever created, and right now it is showing in Denver at the Buell Theatre. The show, which follows the tale of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West ...

Those Wicked Witches of the West have little in common with the one that L. Frank Baum created in his 1900 children's classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Baum's witch wasn't green, for starters.

Other famous cinematic examples include, of course, Margaret Hamilton’s green-skinned Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz, Bette Midler's hamster-toothed Sanderson sister in Hocus Pocus, and the ...

As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, it was not easy being green. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: In the original book, author L. Frank Baum did not even imagine his witch with green skin, says writer Ailea Merriam-Pigg.

The green skin serves another purpose for the Wicked Witch. In the book, she stands out with one eye and is physically isolated in the West, but unlike literature, film relies on visual cues.

“Wicked.” Universal Pictures Hannon had an important job turning Erivo, 37, into the green witch Elphaba. She told The Post how she ultimately perfected that process.

Elissa Cuellar steps into the emerald spotlight as the Wicked Witch of the West in A.D. Players’ production of The Wizard of ...

Will the real Wicked Witch of the West please stand up? Not the lady with the green face, black hat and broomstick, from the 1939 MGM movie "The Wizard of Oz." Not the glamorous green diva from ...