Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
#0Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:09pm
After ten years, i'm writing a sequel.
The success of the musical made me go back and look at the novel again. I was happy with how many threads were left unwoven or questions unanswered, because the Witch's story ends in an abbreviated fashion--which makes it a tragedy. (I trust this is not a spoiler but I'm not giving everything away in case you haven't finished reading the book.) If someone dies cozy and old in bed with a glass of cognac by their side and their family gently weeping around them... well, it's sad but it's not a TRAGEDY. What makes the death or dismemberment of someone YOUNG or in middle age is the fact that so many questions MUST go unanswered... I buried a friend last week, a writer, a mother of a three year old, someone who passionately was working to defeat Bush in the next election, someone who worked for the poor and indigent even though she wasn't healthy or wealthy herself. She was 45. For her, the shape and nature of the tragedy of her early death has EVERYTHING to do with the strands in her own life that go unwoven into the fabric. Not knowing whether the homeless person on the corner would recover from pneumonia, not knowing whether Bush would be defeated, not knowing how her little girl would grow up, or even if she would be remembered. And that's why Elphaba's story has so many tragic aspects, and why we feel bereaved, (if we do) at the end. Or anyway that's what effect i was hoping for.
But ten years on, I'm over it, and I want to know: What happened to Princess Nastoya? To Nor? to Liir? To Shell? to Glinda? Etc. So today i wrote pp. 45 through 49. Look for it a year from now if i am lucky enough to finish it in time...."
I CAN'T WAIT TO READ THAT!!! Said no one... 
What does one actually call the sequel to a prequel???
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#1re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:11pm
Very exciting. I've read all of his books except for Mirror Mirror (which I'm halfway through now). Good to know that there's another one on its way. 
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#2re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:11pm
"What does one actually call the sequel to a prequel???"
Um, THE WIZARD OF OZ.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
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#3re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:12pmwow! I think it will be interesting. I loved Wicked (the book), so I can't wait to read it.
#4re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:18pmThis has made my day!!
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#5re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:20pmWicked the book was good, I thought, but there were alot of disturbing and graphic details.
Ways to annoy people:
Arrive at a meeting late, say you're sorry, but you didn't have time for lunch, and you're going to be nibbling during the meeting. Then eat raw potatoes.
Ask people what gender they are,or
Disagree strongly with everything anybody says:)
#6re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:23pmThat is what MADE it a good book nobiz
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#8re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:49pmi'm so excited!!! ::does a little dance::
"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#9re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:50pm
WOOOHOOO!!!!!!!
I loved the book
Thanx CATS!!
#10re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:05pmawesome. thats going to be an exciting book to read, well if its after Wicked its not really going to be a prequel then its going to take place after the Wizard of Oz maybe? im stumped
need to defrag my brain.
Ebonic_Singer
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#11re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:06pmCan we say riding on the coattails of the show's success???
BWIDB Charlie
Broadway Star Joined: 5/6/04
#12re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:16pm
Hmm... this is the one where Fiyero gets frozen in Carbonite, right?
wait...
#13re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:18pmWatch, he will do to WICKED what Anne Rice did to Interview with a Vampire... Drive it into the ground with lesser and lesser follow ups.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
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#14re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/14/04 at 12:21amomg im sooo excited, i loved the book! i can't wait to read the next one!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/14/04 at 12:31amSNAFU - it took years for Ms. Rice to degenerate into madness - and if anybody is going to reap some benefit of this turn of events with Wicked, why not the originator of the concept?
#16re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/14/04 at 12:04pmDGrant, I am all for him reaping the benefits.He very well should! He has found his niche and he, like Ms Rice will exploit it for all it's worth.I would too if I were in his place.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#17re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/14/04 at 1:01pm
If he had this idea all along since he first came up with the idea for Wicked then good for him.
If this is just something he came up with because of the success of Wicked, then I must say he should probably rethink his decision.
#18re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/14/04 at 1:09pmWicked was a bestseller long before the show, as were his other books (Connfessions, Lost and Mirror, Mirror) So I highly doubt that the shows sucess had little to no weight on this decision
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#19re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/14/04 at 1:13pmknowing Gregory personally, this is NOT simply because of the show.....he has been toying with the idea even beofre the musical was written....the timing is good now and there is nothing wrong with doing it now....
"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie
#20re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/14/04 at 1:28pmAmen K!
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#21re: Maguire to pen WICKED sequel
Posted: 10/14/04 at 1:53pm
That made my day. Thanks, CATS.
And why shouldn't the musical prompt him to pick up the threads of Oz again? I mean, with WICKED back on the forefront, it's not a bad or illogical thing for him to toy with the idea of tying up the loose ends?
Does anyone know if this will be released in the next year or so?
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