The original setting for as long as your mine was a little rented room.
When Idina Menzel auditioned for Elephaba she wore green eye shadow and lipstick but her voice cracked so couldn't put the high note.
The name Elphaba comes from the initials of the writer of the “Wizard of Oz” Frank L Baum- FLM was changed to LFB
In the book Nessarose had no arms rather than being in a wheelchair.
At the beginning of making wicked Glenda was very much a supporting character and was barley in act 1.
Glinda only sings in no one mourns the wicked because Kristen Chenoweth wanted to use her soprano.
Idina Menzel missed what was supposed to be her last performance as Elphaba on Broadway as she hurt her foot in a trap door during rehearsal.
All of Elphabas green face is achieved entirely through mac make up.
The common “unlimited” theme is the first 7 notes of somewhere over the rainbow
NASA has used defying gravity as an astronaught wake up call.
Steven Schwartz came up with the idea to make wicked a musical when his friend told him about the book while on holiday in Hawaii.
Critics were very divided when wicked first came out; the New Yorker said that not one of the songs was memorable and the New York Times said “wicked does not, alas, speak hopefully for the future of the Broadway musical.”
As of 2014, Wicked has been preformed in 5 different languages
In 1 week 15000 people will see wicked in the Gershwin Theatre
Gregory Maguire wrote the original book of the same name on whch the show is based