What is the plot of Wicked?

A prequel to The Wizard of Oz, Wicked tells the story of everything leading up to Dorothy’s arrival in Oz. In its original Broadway run, Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth portrayed frenemies Elphaba, who would become the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda the Good Witch, in career-defining roles.

With famed songs like Popular and Defying Gravity, Wicked is one of Broadway’s most successful musicals of all time, with the original production winning three Tony awards and seven Drama Desk awards, while its original cast album received a Grammy award.

How closely this Universal adaptation will follow the beloved show still remains to be seen, but in such capable hands, we can’t wait to see where the story of unlikely friendship is taken.

Wicked: Peter Dinklage joins Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the musical adaptation