The Wizard of Oz (1987 musical)
The Wizard of Oz is a musical with a book by John Kane, music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E. Y. Harburg. It has additional background music by Herbert Stothart. It is based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and the 1939 film version written by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf.
Poster from the original 1987 RSC production
The Wicked Witch of the West is a fictional character who appears in the classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), created by American author L. Frank Baum. In Baum's subsequent Oz novels, it is the Nome King who is the principal villain; the Wicked Witch of the West is rarely even referred to again after her death in the first book.
Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Margaret Hamilton and Oscar the Grouch in 1976
Myra Ruiz as Elphaba in the original Brazilian production of Wicked
Mila Kunis as Theodora in Oz the Great and Powerful