Wicked Witch of the West in Munchkinland

[BroadwayStephen]

how did they do the trap door?! its amazing!

[TaffyGaya]

Who is the witch of the south?

[xInTheYearOf39x]

Wow, this is REALLY good - the Wicked Witch is freaky :S

[chad2CCC]

That was like, a perfect impersonation of Margaret Hamiltons wicked witch!

[NintendoMage]

I'm surprised that they used fire where a ton of little kids with huge hats were present lol!

[AChance2Fly]

Lolz :) I <3 Elphaba!!

[1980scrazy]

i love the elavator bit just like in the movie

[ThePhantomOfTheVideo]

For how brilliant the effects are, I wish the costumes and makeup were a bit more extravagant.

[tygerprince]

the witch slinks uplike a lizard very creepy! Galinda is so new jersey:> lol

[Scar2401]

(Cackles) Perfect! Outstanding! the best portrayal of the Witch i ve seen on stage! she sounds just like Margaret hamilton!

[MasterMacabre13th]

Actress - AMAZING

Costume - Suckish :S

Makeup - Just Plain Bad :P

[NintendoMage]

@MasterMacabre13th Looked like a mask to me rofl.

[LUVMEN21]

now THATS a WICKED WITCH!!!!

[slimmy38]

can someone get the rest of this...this is pretty impressive

[livethemagic91]

wow, the woman playing glinda the good witch has the voice spot on.

[BrideofthePhantom]

She is AWESOME!! I'm playing the witch in my stage school's production in Feb (only trouble is we have to use our normal accents in Oz unless you're Dorothy, ie british, which makes the voice a bit harder, but I think I've worked it out) If I can be half as good as that I''l have achieved something!

[wizardblonde91]

The witch is totally amazing! just like maggie. now being an oz freak, Dorothys basket looks like the one right outta the movie. and that kind of basket is hard to find. where ever did they get it?! lol

[BackOfTheHearse]

It was... This video was taken from the extreme side, not the front view.

[furyplum44]

oh i apologise, i thought the vid was taken by someone in the audience, i wish i could have seen this! have you got anymore clips??

[WickedTheMusical7]

I have always been a fan of the wicked witch of the west and that was AMAZING!!!!

[billfarrell]

does the witch use a stage trap

[ps2odie]

cool

[02kristen04]

Excellent

[gogogirliez]

Wicked is meant to be the prequal to The Wizard of Oz, which means that the characters of the Wicked Witch of the West and Elphaba are the same people, but i do understand the arguements against it, becaue i do understand that you may see them as two totaly different stories. I supose that you could see this either way, but you have to rmemebr that in the book Wicked, it takes the Wizard of Oz story in it, hence why people say they are the same characters.

[wishesfan]

Simply unbelievable — she deserves a Tony for that performance! :) Sounds EXACTLY like Margaret Hamilton!!!

[RCDEF823]

actually it is Glinda, not glynda...

[maddimags]

Its Glynda just to let you know

[santa4nt]

no, it's Glinda

[ElphabaMalfoy]

Is Glinda high or somthing? she sure sounds and acts like she's higher then a kite

[inuyashalover1610]

why did they have to make Elphaba so grotesque, the only reason the people hated her was because she was green, she was never ugly D<

[Ravensclaw123]

Those are two different stories involving the same character. This Witch is baaaaad. =]

[inuyashalover1610]

there's always another side to a story! >/

[Ravensclaw123]

Not this one. The witch is evil Gregory Maguire just created a back story for her. So really its two different stories involving the same character =]

[TherealRNO]

Ravensclaw: In your opinion. Because--as you said--the Witch didn't have a backstory (or a name) until Wicked, who is to say that it is or isn't canon (or at the very least, MGM Ozian canon)? As well, LeRoy wanted a beautiful witch initially, but the other producers rejected the idea. And even so, in the Wicked novel, Elphie was described just as harshly as the MGM film depicted her, anyway.

[TherealRNO]

Continued...As well, Wicked CAN still be a prequel (and continuation) of the film despite inconsistancies, because Elphie went insane anyway (in both the book and the musical [less in the latter, though]...so some of her stuff may've been made up (for example, I would like to think that Elphie DID die, but like all GOOD VILLIANS can NOT truly be killed, hence her revival).

[Ravensclaw123]

Still it is a DIFFERENT character. You have your opinion i have mine. Get over it. This witch is evil. This witch is intended to be EVIL. Not every WWOTW is Elphaba Thropp.

[TherealRNO]

"You have your opinion i have mine. Get over it."

Same for you.

"This witch is evil."

Again, opinion.

"This witch is intended to be EVIL."

True, but I chalk that up to insane-ness.

"Not every WWOTW is Elphaba Thropp."

Again, opinion. To me--and obviously to others--Wicked is a GOOD prequel and you have no reason to bash it!

[TherealRNO]

Continued...I am speaking of the MGM version, NOT the true bad one in the original book, whose canon was defied by the MGM film, anyway.

[TherealRNO]

And again just so you get it, I am speaking of the MGM film version that INSPIRED Wicked, NOT the original one-eyed hunchback in the original WWoO Baum book.

[Ravensclaw123]

Yeah and the MGM version. And this one. Is evil. I'm not bashing wicked i love it. Thisd witch is definately not elphaba. She wasn't written with elphaba in mind, therefore she isn't elphaba.

[TherealRNO]

But then...when Wicked came along this witch was given a backstory and BECAME Elphie. :D So that debunks your opinion, because this version was the one that INSPIRED Wicked and was the one USED in said future/current Broadway hit.

[Ravensclaw123]

Yes it insipred wicked But this isn't Elpahba!!!!!! Why don't you understand this witch isn't elphie?

[Ravensclaw123]

Elphie was created for her, so there was a new story! In wicked this witch is elphaba, but IN THIS STORY The witch is evil. There is no good about her. The witch is evil. Wicked is a different story. This witch doesn't become elphaba because someone wrote a story for her. Like if someone wrote a fanfic of Charmed or Buffy, or one of the books. It doesn't mean all that stuff happened. And until you prove with fact that Elphaba and her story is canon in the Oz world you are wrong.

[TherealRNO]

"And until you prove with fact"

The fact that McGuire used this witch at all and DID basically lift the witch from this and placed her in "Wicked" as Elphie proves that "Wicked"--COULD BE--a POSSIBLE backstory FOR the MGM witch (remember, Oz was told from Dorothy's point of view [think of it like politics...Elphie's POV is from those veterans that--like most--are against the current state of things, whilst Dorothy is like those blind sheep people who follow what others tell her]).

[Ravensclaw123]

Never mind, you don't understand.

[santa4nt]

Pfenix, St Aelphaba of the Waterfall, the wicked witch of the children stories ... she can very well come back, you know :p

[Minimenzel211]

wow....the glinda and wicked witch were AMAZING...very good voices and gestures

[SIMEDRON]

brilliant

[seanbrown13]

AWEFUL.

[ElphabaMalfoy]

why do they alway's have to make her ugly? Elphaba jus wanted to be loved

[BackOfTheHearse]

Remember that there is a difference between the Wicked Witch of the West from Wizard of Oz and Elphaba from Wicked. It's important to differentiate between those.

[BackOfTheHearse]

Also, remember that Elphaba in the BOOK Wicked was not beautiful. She was very often described harshly, and she had very hard features. When Galinda did a little makeover at Shiz, there was a quality of beauty that was found, but it's not something that was immediately apparent. The musical, in my opinion, really did not do the book justice at all.. too many changes.

[TherealRNO]

--Also, remember that Elphaba in the BOOK Wicked was not beautiful. She was very often described harshly, and she had very hard features.--

These would be the features seen in the film, most likely, albeit younger. And yes, the musical--like all musicals--was too uplifting and nothing like Elphie's real story of going insane and becoming the thing she hated to be thought of as being..."wicked".

[Scar2401]

@BackOfTheHearse Ummm Elphaba IS the Wicked Witch of the West. Wicked merely tells HOW she Gained that title.

[boffinme80]

@BackOfTheHearse ** Glinda didn't see the harsh features behind Elphaba, as she only saw that she was just lonely and not the hint of wickedness that was entitled to her name.

Fiyero said that "It's what's inside that matters" to Elphaba meaning that she was kind-hearted as that is what made her beautiful. It was like a condition that everyone misjudged and only certain people knew who Elphie really was.

So Wicked and WoO are very clever telling prophecies! ^^

[TherealRNO]

BackOfTheHearse: It's not important, because they're the same damn character! Albeit retold by different authors using different perspectives (MGM making things from Dorothy's point of view and Maguire showing us "the other side of the [Ozian] moon" as it were and telling things from through Elphaba's eyes), but they're still one and the same.

[boffinme80]

@BackOfTheHearse There is a difference but it's the perspective. Wizard of Oz is through Dorothy's perspective and Wicked is through Elphaba's, Glinda's and Fiyero's. Mainly Elphaba's as she is the main character. The reason she is ugly in WoO is because Dorothy is told by the citizens that she is a "wicked" witch, not misunderstood so the character represents Dorothy's creative view.

In Wicked, it is told by Glinda that the witch is her best friend and what she saw is not what everyone else saw

[defygravity2692]

wow, this witch certainly brought down the house everytime she came in, or left :)

[killo10000]

its very viutifol

[lrover03]

Wow!! That gal has the wicked witch voice down to a tee. For that matter so does Glindas character. I would have loved to have seen this live. :)

[madrosey2]

wat an amazing play! do u have any of the witch flying (if she does)?

[BackOfTheHearse]

I have now uploaded the footage of the witch melting.

[aprodigy00]

OMG the witch sounds just like the one in the movie Wow I BEG OF U TO PLEASE POST MORE OF THIS WONDERFUL PLAY, EXSPECIALLY THE WITCH MELTING!

[actor13]

Do you have any more of videos of this show?

[BackOfTheHearse]

I could upload more... what would you like to see?

[actor13]

Yes please!

[Randompumpkin]

i would like to see the witch's melting scene

[hello22uu]

Agreed. Put the melting scene up

[chaddirects]

oooh!!! yes yes! the melting!

[mellowNdark]

the witch melting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AStarryKnight]

Wow the actress that plays the Wicked Witch is amazing, Glinda is good, toto is cute and well Dorothy is only ok. I wish I would have seen the entire play!

[WickedMarksta]

omg she was such a gd wicked witch! i loved that performance! and i love the way they they took the idea from the movie with the trap door! gd work wot was the name of the theatre group nd hu wer de performers?

[xXfluteXx]

Glinda's dress hides the shoes on Dorothy's feet!

[BackOfTheHearse]

Yeah, this was just filmed by a member of the theatre sitting in the audience.

Other tapes made of shows at the theatre were done by a more professional taper from the balcony (as seen in my Jacob Marley video).