Many TV villains could easily be one of the Wicked Witches from Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz universe. They are self-involved and often corrupt, using magic to get their way and ...

We call it “history.” So says the Wizard in the musical “Wicked,” based on Gregory Maguire’s novel about the witches of Oz. Maguire created Elphaba’s name from the initials of L.