Honourees include GregoryMaguire, author of more than a dozen novels for children and adults, including Wicked, the basis for the eponymous Broadway musical, and Mikko Nissinen, artistic director for the Boston Ballet.
Based on a clever novel by GregoryMaguire, the musical is an exercise in high camp a universe turned topsy-turvy, where good is bad, normal is abnormal, and the purest well yields the sourest water.