The role is an important one as the goat-like professor of the two young witches. Genet plays their mentor Doctor Dillamond, which he played on Broadway in 20. As fate would have it, the school ends up making Elphaba share a room with Ga-linda.” They think she is an abnormal monster or something. “When Elphaba shows up, they’re all petrified. “Glinda is so pompous and full of herself that she pronounces her name bougie-bougie as ‘Ga-linda,'” Genet said. When she meets the bubbly blonde “popular girl” Glinda, their rivalry turns into the unlikeliest of friendships - until the world decides to call one “good” and the other one “wicked.” Frank Baum’s 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and the 1939 MGM musical “The Wizard of Oz” that we all know and love.īefore being dubbed The Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba is a student with emerald-green skin who is misunderstood for her smart, fiery, extraordinary talents.
… Elphaba would be the immigrant.”īased on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” the story is set long before Dorothy arrives in L. exclusion, people who are popular for no other reason than they’re popular. “It touches upon what we’re dealing with in society today of inclusion vs. “It is a beautiful piece of work in musical theater, but it is also this social commentary that goes deeper than anyone could ever imagine,” Actor Michael Genet told WTOP. for a long run this holiday season from Dec. Starting on Thursday, the national tour of “Wicked” flies into the prestigious Kennedy Center in D.C. It remains the second-highest grossing Broadway musical ever with over $1 billion in revenue, surpassing “The Phantom of the Opera” and trailing only “The Lion King.”
WTOP's Jason Fraley previews 'Wicked' at Kennedy Center (Part 1)
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