The books are wonderful and we've only had a small taste.
I'd like to see more of those stories (over new derivative stuff)
Yes Wicked is awesome on its own. But felt kinda unauthentic.
My 2 cents.

original movie and the Wizard of Oz original book. The others in the collection ought to be given some treatment (there have been some children's short-form treatments in past decades).

I really dislike what Wicked has done with L. Frank Baum's work.

-and I really dislike Cynthia Eribo's voice- certainly not after the first 10,000 times I heard her song in commercials and everything else. Not to mention that green makeup gives me the creeps--far more than the original used on Margaret Hamilton in the movie. Ariana is so desperate to come off as likeable with extreme facial expressions and almost painful smiles that it just makes me incredibly uncomfortable. Her voice doesn't cause me as much reaction, but, admittedly, I'm not a fan of her singing much either.

I admit some bias because I inherited originals of every L. Frank Baum book in the collection and read them (or had them read to me) as a very young child, and don't really like the expropriation used by these movies--that divert so much from the original, but that is just me... Still, I had no problem with the Broadway musicals, so it is something about these movies that incite my disdain.

So, I know having let the box "open," all the WICKED OTT fans will want to banish me from the earth, but that is how I feel. I do not intend to do more than run to grab the remote when promos come on--certainly not to see the latest "greatest" Wicked movie.

It's a book "Wicked" about the early lives of Glynda and Elphaba.

I read it and enjoyed it. Haven't seen the movie.

Arianna looks anorexic to me.

So, I don't know how one can say it is not based on it. There would be no WICKED--no Glinda character without the original from L. Frank Baum's book(s). Yes, the Elphaba character is original, but that is all.

Here is a list of all the L. Frank Baum original books should you not be aware of all of them. Glinda appears in more thant the Wizard of Oz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books

That it's all from Baum.

I'm just mentioning the book.

I have several of the Baum books that follower The Wizard od Oz." Trivia question: does anyone know where the name
"Oz" came from?

Joel Grey was the wizard.

I cannot imagine watching any other iteration.