For Good Connects to Wizard of Oz
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The Cowardly Lion first appears in the 1900 book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He encounters Dorothy as she's traveling to the Emerald City and tries to bite her dog, Toto. When she reprimands him, the lion admits he's a coward and asks to join her so he can ask the Wizard of Oz for courage and actually be the King of the Beasts.
Wicked: For Good has a surprising detail, explaining the bizarre scene in The Wizard of Oz where the Scarecrow has a gun.
The beloved 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” featured The Wicked Witch of The West with no explanation of why she was evil, other than that a house fell on
Jonathan Bailey made a NSFW joke about how he looked while wearing a significant amount of prosthetics for his spoiler-heavy transformation in Wicked: For Good. PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive said in a new interview that the prosthetics work was "the first thing I started thinking about" when he signed on to the movie.