I've read "Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west" by the fantastic Gregory Maguire, and I've heard that the musical tie-in version is different. What's the difference, though?
I want to buy it, but I won't if it's just the cover that's been changed.
2007-01-11 08:33:11 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
When I say the musical tie-in, I mean the book other than the one that was published in 1996. I think it may have come out in 2004.
2007-01-11 09:11:52 · update #1
I think there are only two differences:
1. The cover is the promo art for Wicked:The Musical
and
2. There are pictures from the production in the middle of the book
The actual story is the same, word-for-word
2007-01-12 02:55:57 · answer #1 · answered by Keavy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The musical omits a lot of the sex that is very prevalent in the book. It kind of glosses over all that with just a little innuendo at the beginning of the show involving the Wizard and Elphaba's mother. Other than that, it abridges quite a bit, as is probably expected. The other thing I noticed (being a costume person) was that instead of making Elphaba's lover (his name evades me at the moment) blue with stars, he's just a normal man. In the production I saw he was played by an African American man, but I know the character has been played by Caucasians as well.
2007-01-11 08:41:53 · answer #2 · answered by Morgan S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean the making of the musical book? If not, I would say it's probably the same, and they changed the cover to garner a new crowd.
2007-01-11 12:49:47 · answer #3 · answered by Flugs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋