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Who would have thought the film of the year would be a rather intense political allegory disguised as a bubblegum musical? Wicked has stunned audiences with its screen adaptation of the Broadway show, which is in turn an adaptation of a 1993 book by Gregory Maguire, which is itself a prequel to the 1900 novel and subsequent 1939 film, The Wizard Of Oz.
Between the two key texts—and their several interpretations—the lore of Glinda, Oz, and the Wicked Witch Of The West runs…
