""The youngest of four children in a high-born family down on their luck, Galinda is both pampered and ignored," it reads. "Her natural grace promises to elevate her in the district dance competitions-but these efforts distract her from seeing the growing resentments of local merchants who disapprove of her family's business strategies." It goes on to say Galinda dances through childhood while her father "deftly pivots around the snares and nets laid for him by his competitors.""
"Composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz is down for something else set in Oz, maybe just not a Glinda and Elphaba jawn. "I think the Glinda and Elphaba story feels complete," he told , adding that Maguire's original book series could provide more musical fodder. "But there's another idea that Winnie and I are discussing: not a sequel, but an adjunct. Let me put it that way.""
HarperCollins will release Galinda: A Charmed Childhood, a prequel and sister book to Elphie: A Wicked Childhood, on September 29, 2026. The synopsis frames Galinda as the youngest of four high-born children, pampered and ignored, whose dance competition ambitions blind her to local merchants' growing resentments over her family's business strategies. Her father navigates competitors' snares and nets while Galinda dances through childhood. Universal seeks additional Wicked films after the sequel earned nearly $400 million globally in ten days, and creative leads consider adjunct Oz projects based on Maguire's book series.
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