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Stephen Schwartz is this year's recipient of the Johnny Mercer Award at the 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame presentation. The award was presented at the star-studded Songwriters Hall of Fame ...
'Wicked' review: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande are fantastic as witchy BFFs But unlike the first movie, "Wicked: For Good" will feature two new, original songs that were not in the stage show.
For everything we know about Wicked: Part Two, read below. When does Wicked: Part Two come out? Wicked: Part Two, now known as Wicked: For Good, will arrive in theaters Nov. 21, 2025.
Stephen Schwartz is back hosting the ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Fest. The event will be held over two days from May 5-6 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (The Wallis) in ...
Based on the stage play with music and lyrics by composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, “Wicked” is directed by Jon M. Chu. The film also stars Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Marissa ...
The "Wicked" movie references the musical and "The Wizard of Oz." You probably caught its biggest cameos, but you may have missed other easter eggs.
“Wicked” composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz revealed in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that he pitched Ariana Grande on a different version of “Popular” for the film ...
Both Schwartz and Holzman wrote new songs and scenes for Part 1 that didn’t end up in the final cut. “We tried to be very careful that anything we expanded was additive and not padded,” he says.
Composer Stephen Schwartz and “Wicked” screenplay writer Winnie Holzman say when the show opened on Broadway in October 2003, they “couldn’t imagine being in November of 2003, having ...
At the same time, Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, who wrote the book for the “Wicked” musical and the screenplay for the 2024 film, were working on expanding the song "One Short Day” already.
Wicked has been a cultural phenomenon for over two decades, since its Broadway debut in 2003, in no small parts thanks to the incisive book by Winnie Holzman and catchy songs by Stephen Schwartz.