The Wonders of Oz Episode 11

Wicked
This episode covers Gregory Maguire's "Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" and it's popular musical adaptation. Aaron Pacentine narrates.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Wonders
• Oz
• Wizard
• Wonderful
• of
• Frank
• Baum
• Movie
• Glinda
• Dorothy
• return
• Aaron
• Pacentine
• Jared
• Davis
• documentary
• Elphaba

[OurGangFan]

I hope you do more Oz episodes soon. I love Oz and any fantasy adventure like Alice In Wonderland and The Blue Bird and Little Nemo.

[RoyalKidofOz]

I have a few more big ones planned, but they're easier said than done. And all of those I'm waiting for video and audio footage for...

[jimani]

the sound trake is better on this.... but was it suppose to end like that?

[RoyalKidofOz]

Unfortunately, this is not the full version of the episode. YouTube won't let me use clips from the Wicked CD (which is weird, since the older version which DOES use them is still up). I cut the opening and closing credits. I'll be deleting the older version in a few days. If you want the full version, send me a PM.

[905rocks]

did you not make this one all ready

[RoyalKidofOz]

Yeah, but this one has sound errors corrected and better zoom and pan effects for pictures.

[erw165]

I love Wicked!

[WickedOnTheInside]

I love The Wizard of Oz and I love Wicked. But they are definitely two different Oz's to me. Of course the original will always be my Oz though :)

[ruberto53]

I think the Wicked Witch was simply as Baum made her: Wicked. They held her skin color against her? That makes no sense. Wasn't the Woogle Bug a giant bug? Wasn't the Tin Man made out of tin? Weren't the Munchkins, well munchkins? Being green wasn't so unusal or odd. I don't think the musical "Wicked" was really about OZ at all.

[TheWizardofodd12]

Wicked is just a fan fiction on the 1939 movie. It is a great musical but you can see it's just a really fancy fan fiction.

[Hewylewis]

Say what you want, I still hate it.

[100DiddlySquatxx]

Have you ever read the book, or seen the show? It's not suppose to be an insult of the Oz series, it is a prequel of what happened before Dorothy came into Oz. The story itself is suppose to show that Elphaba wasn't so much of a wicked witch, and more of a misunderstood woman, hated by everyone because of her skin color. And to show the friendship between her and Glinda. Please, don't be small minded the next time you put the world of Wicked in vain.

[dsneybuf]

I still remember reading Time magazine's original review for the "Wicked" musical and ironically thinking, "Well, I'll probably never hear about this again. Just like most Broadway musicals nowadays." I saw the Chicago production and can only nitpick at what's wrong with the play. (Boq's fate)

[nicholasbarwick]

were can i find the full audio for wicked

[Hewylewis]

God, I hate Wicked! It's an insult to the original Oz stories.

[princerei]

Thanks for posting this... I'm currently writing my own Oz novel (a mature take on Ozma), and trying to not tread on Wicked's toes as much as I can help it... and thanks to your audio selections I just realized I might have got a little too close with something I do with West in the prolog, I wouldn't have caught it without you now I'll double back and check the book thanks...