Dorothy has her companions—the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion—with her on her fateful journey to Oz. The Scarecrow has been equated to the disenfranchisement of the rural ...
Elphaba technically accomplishes all this, with the side effect of Fiyero becoming the Scarecrow. Wicked has many parallels to the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz, but the stories connections are a ...