“My relationship to the story overall starts back at The Wizard of Oz growing up,” Paul Tazewell tells Wonderland as we sit down to talk about Wicked’s costume design. It’s the day after the European premiere and London’s Corinthia hotel is packed with journalists eager to hear from the cast and crew of the long-awaited film adaptation just days before it hits theatres.
If you’re unfamiliar with the story of Wicked – a prequel to L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) – the Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman Broadway production first gave a stage to the origin story of the early twentieth century villain back in 2003, showing the Wicked Witch of the West as a young girl with green skin and magical powers navigating a world (and university) of ostracization. Known as Elphaba long before Dorothy lands in Oz, the protagonist of Wicked lets viewers in on the complex tribulations that lead a person to become “wicked,” asking the now infamous question: “Are people born wicked, or is wickedness thrust upon them?”
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