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ElphabaElphaba Thropp is the name given to the Wicked Witch of the West in Wicked - The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway adaptation, Wicked. In the original L. Frank Baum book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the witch is unnamed and we know little about her life. Maguire formulated the name out of L. Frank Baum's name. L. Frank Baum became El-pha-ba. Elphaba was born with green skin. In the book, she has a disabled younger sister, Nessarose, who grows up to become the Wicked Witch of the East, and a younger brother, Shell. The musical makes no reference to Shell. In both the book and musical, Elphaba is a misunderstood and unfairly loathed young woman who becomes a revolutionary. The exact incidents of her life as presented in the two works are quite different from each other.
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