Prologue

Character List

Marissa as Rissa/Marissa (Galinda/Glinda)

Lindsay as Lindsay (Elphaba)

Ellis as Ellisa Rose (Nessa Rose)

Matheus as Mat (Boq)

Damian as Damiyero (Fiyero)

Cameron as Cameric (Avaric)

Emily as Madame Vasquez (Madame Morrible)

Bryce as Dr. Ross-Johnson (Dr. Dillamond)

Samuel as the Wizard Larson

Alex as Alextrey (Chistrey)

Mckynleigh as Mckynleigh (Dorothy)

Hannah as Hanhan (Shenshen)

Good new, she's dead! The wickedest witch there ever was, the enemy of all of us here in Oz, is dead! Good news! Good news!

Celebration was found everywhere today in the city of Oz. For the Wicked Witch of the West was finally dead. Marissa the Good floated down in her bubble and began to address her audience.

"Let us be glad, let us be grateful, let us rejoicify that goodness could subdue the wicked workings of you know who! Isn't it nice to know that good will conquer evil? The truth we all believe by and by outlive a lie for you and-"

A young Ozian in green suddenly asked, "Marissa! Exactly how dead is she?"

The sorceress pursed her lips as she began tapping her wand against the palm of her left hand, "Well, there has been much rumor and speculation… but let me set the record straight. According to the Dragon Time Clock, the melting occurred at the thirteenth hour, a direct result of a bucket of water thrown by a female child." Marissa paused and faced the crowd, "Yes, the Wicked Witch of the West is dead!"

Many cheers filled the air as the citizens of Oz cried, "No one mourns the wicked! No one cried they won't return! No one lays a lily on their grave! The good man scorns the wicked! Through their lives our children learn! What we miss when we misbehave!"

Marissa couldn't help but sigh. They didn't know the true story of the Wicked Witch. Poor Lindie, at least she realized her wrongdoing. Just then another Ozian asked, "Marissa, why does wickedness happen?"

Marissa was taken by surprise by the question, "That's a good question and one that people may find confusing. Are people born wicked or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?" She glanced sorrowfully at the crowd as she continued speaking, "She had a childhood and a father who just so happened to be the governor of Munchkin land, she had a mother as so many do…"

Scenes of the Witch's childhood played through Marissa's head. How the governor was anxious of leaving his wife. How a new lover visited the woman after he left, the green elixir that the lover and wife drank.

"And of course" Marissa continued, "from the moment she was born she was… well… different. It couldn't have been easy, for parents to witness the birth of a green child."

Quickly breaking out of the sad trance of losing a friend, she replied "Well this has been fun! But as you can imagine I have much to attend to, what with the Wizard Larson's unexpected departure and all."

Giggling briefly, she was about to step back into her bubble when another question caught her by surprise.

"Marissa, is it true you were here friend?"

"Well, I… you see… um." Biting her lip, Marissa hesitantly replied, "Yes."

Several gasps filled the air, one Ozian even screamed.

In defense, she quickly injected, "It depends on what you mean by 'friend'," Marissa said as she walked into her bubble, "I did know her, that is, our paths did cross… at school. But you must understand it was a long time ago and we were both very young."

As she floated away, Marissa sighed. She made it seem like long ago, when it was just a few years before her friend was accused to be wicked. Lindsay's voice rang through her mind, "Don't try and clear my name!" It was the last promise, Marissa made to her friend, and one she would honor and keep to herself.

The voices below her in the Emerald City continued their jubilant celebration.

Now at last she's dead and gone! Now at last there's joy throughout the land! No one mourns the wicked! No one mourns…the wicked! Wicked… Wicked!