Sorry, I just don’t get it. I don’t understand why there ever was such hype on Gregory Maguires Wicked. You see I’m going to be honest. I bought this book simply because I loved the charm, the glitz, and the glam of Oz after watching the movie back when I was a child. When I ...
I just finished reading Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister last night at 1am. I must say that the beginning of the book was promising. I was drawn in from page one, yet towards the middle of the book, I found myself yawning. There was really nothing exciting to anticipate; except for the ending. The Ball. ...
“Son of a Witch” by Gregory Maguire Read by the author Produced by Harper Audio (2005) Approx 14.5 hours I still haven’t had the chance to see “Wicked” the musical, but I couldn’t just stop after reading the book. I found Gregory Maguire had written two sequels to the book so I thought I would ...
Broadway’s Wicked is an amazing, colorful yet dark, and spectacular musical that will have you mesmerized for two hours and thirty minutes. Wicked is a Broadway style adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s best selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. For all of you out there who never tired ...
Wicked: The True Story of the Wicked Witch of the West settled comfortably into a spot among my favorite three novels of all time before Elphaba, the wicked witch, had even achieved adulthood. In fact, Wicked is my all time number two favorite novel, right behind A Confederacy of Dunces. As the title implies, it ...
The sedated condition of contemporary pop music needs something to resuscitate it before it flatlines. Anyone for a dose of steampunk-flavored vaudeville performance art? Steam Powered Giraffe is damnably difficult to pigeonhole. Which does much to explain why this trio of robots are performing daily at the San Diego Zoo while Katy Perry sells out ...
Gregory Maguire’s Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West converts L. Frank Baum’s novel for children into a multilayered and much darker postmodern meditation on both the nature of evil and the effect that propaganda has on how ideological perspectives are inculcated. The Oz of Baum was an attempt to impose ...
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