He is greeted, in turn, by warring witch sisters Theodora, Evanora and Glinda, played by Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams respectively, who show him the good and the bad in the mystical land.

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With a score by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, "Wicked" has been one of Broadway's biggest success stories since it arrived in 2003 starring Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda and Idina Menzel as Elphaba.

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The Wicked Witch, Elphaba (originally played by the excellent Idina Menzel), turns out to be good, while Glinda the Good Witch (originally played by Kristen Chenoweth) is exposed as a smug, ambitious, manipulative bitch, with little talent for sorcery.

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"Wicked, " based on Gregory Maguire's cult novel, tells the story of two young witches-to-be, one a green brooder who will be the Wicked Witch of the West and the other blond and bubbly, who will be Glinda the Good Witch.

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