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Welcome to Dressed, the History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, what, when of why we wear. We are fashion historians

and your host, April Callahan and Cassidy Zachary. Dress listeners, this week's episode is such a treat.

By now you have surely all heard about or seen the newly released, highly anticipated film Wicked,

which opened to record box office numbers this past weekend.

And this film is part one of a two-part installment based on the wildly popular Broadway

musical of the same name, which is still running after making its debut in 2003. And the musical itself is a

loose adaptation of a 1995 novel by Gregory McGuire entitled Wicked, The Life in Times of the

Wicked Witch of the West, which as the title makes clear, is itself a loose adaptation,

or revisionist adaptation, I should say, of Al Frank Baum's 1900 novel,

The Wonderful Wizard of Odds. And for those of you who might not be familiar with the story,

the Broadway production and now film takes us into the lives and complex friendship of Elphaba,

who becomes the wicked witch of the West, and Glinda, who becomes

Glinda the good.

And it is essentially the story before and after Dorothy's time in the world of Oz.

And these roles were originated on the stage by Edina Manzel and Christian Chenowith,

and are now being brought to the big screen by their fellow vocal powerhouses,

Cynthia Arrivo and Ariana Grande in this two-part film in theaters now.

And today we are so pleased to be joined by the film's costume designer Paul Taswell,

who is in arguably a powerhouse in his own right.

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