While speaking to NBC News in November 2025, Schwartz explained he wrote “There’s No Place Like Home,” which is performed by Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba, during the Covid-19 pandemic. At the time, he and ...

Something “Wicked” this way comes not only at the movie theater, but in the music world as well. “Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack” drops 11 songs nestled in the second volume of the film, with a ...

Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes the Sun, we have been forever changed by the music of Wicked. Since 2003, the Broadway musical about the "true story" of the Wicked Witch of the West has ...

In the final minutes of the second act of the Broadway musical Wicked, Glinda and Elphaba sing together one last time. They have reached their ultimate, iconic forms: Glinda is the Good Witch, ...

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If Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros does not ring a bell for you, there’s a good chance their song, “Home,” might. Especially if you were a music fan around 2010. Music was going through a heavy ...

40 years ago this week, Starship’s debut single bagged the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 when “We Built This City” usurped Jan Hammer’s “Miami Vice Theme,” because it was 1985 and popular TV show ...

Wicked: For Good includes two new songs that were not part of the original Broadway musical. Following the film’s release, composer Stephen Schwartz explained how the new tracks – “There’s No Place ...