The musical is about a girl named Elphaba who believes she isn't special, and she isn't important. She goes to a school that makes her think even more that she isn't important because she was only sent there to look after her sister. When she is told by the headmistress that she is special, and she has a talent for sorcery, she feels like she has a talent. She knows that if she gets her shot and meets the wizard someday everyone will love her (from the song the wizard and I) She befriends a snotty girl girl named glinda who soon realizes that popularity isn't everything. They journey together to the emerald city to meet the wizard, who is really a fraud, and the bad guy in the story. She learns then that it is up to her to save the people of oz from the wizard. Even though she is hence forth Wicked, when she refuses to help the wizard take control of Oz, she doesn't stop. She learns that you can do anything if you set your mind to it. Elphaba's character is about strength. Elphaba, however faces many problems with her life, what with her true love being stolen and her sister being killed, and all of oz being against her, you can understand some of her anger locked up inside of her. Even though Elphaba and Glinda don't believe it until the end, they were who they were then because they knew eachother.
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