Theatre The Wicked Witch of the West: The Early Years or Oz before Dorothy got involved, is the premise of Stephen Swartz new musical 'Wicked'. Quality may well be in doubt, because this is the man behind Godspell, but I'm giving the benefit of the doubt because the libretto, drawn from the novel by Gregory Maguire, is by Winnie Holzman, the writer known for her work on TV's "thirtysomething," "Once and Again" and "My So-Called Life." [The actual reason I'm mentioning it here -- I wondered what she'd been up to ...]

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