Defying Gravity

Defying Gravity Did you know that Stephen Schwartz, composer and lyricist of the hit musical Wicked, didn’t think the 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of the West, could effectively be made into a movie? Well, that’s at least what he told the president of Universal Pictures when he had to convince Universal to turn it into a musical first. Universal owned the rights to turn the book into a movie and a team of writers were already working on the second version of the...