Wicked also provides an origin story for the flying monkeys that serve as the witch's minions in The Wizard of Oz. Elphaba is tasked with performing a levitation spell on the Wizard's monkey ...

Michelle Yeoh has a great line reading in Wicked, when she finally declares the name every viewer has known since they first watched The Wizard of Oz ... does the Witch beckon winged monkeys ...

To do that, she’d have to kill the green witch. Did Glinda know this would happen? I don’t doubt it. The Wizard and all of Oz always wanted to get rid of the Wicked Witch, and she knew that.