Does Wicked novelist Gregory Maguire approve of Wicked the musical?
Gregory loves this musical. At a book talk with Winnie Holzman, Maguire said, “I have been so pleased with the work that Winnie Holzman has done for Wicked. She has taken a novel that is like a symphony in my heart and she has turned it into an opera.” Holzman promptly gave much credit to Stephen Schwartz for his ideas. “It literally was a vision–he just saw that Wicked the novel was a Broadway musical. So then he brought me into his vision.” One aspect of the musical that Gregory explains well is the friendship story between Elphaba and Glinda. He said recently, “…the story is about a friendship between two girls, there’s no arguing that that is a very appealing aspect of the play and a good argument why people want to see it again and again. And it’s not just about young women learning to trust one another and learning the depths of their affection for one another. It’s also about women — or any disenfranchised citizen — learning their relationship in a system of power, either a
Gregory Maguire loves this musical. At a book talk with Winnie Holzman, Maguire said, “I have been so pleased with the work that Winnie Holzman has done for Wicked. She has taken a novel that is like a symphony in my heart and she has turned it into an opera.” Holzman promptly gave much credit to Stephen Schwartz for his ideas. “It literally was a vision–he just saw that Wicked the novel was a Broadway musical.
