It’s likely that the Wizard of Oz’s Scarecrow would agree with Fiyero’s musical soliloquy that, “Life’s more painless for the brainless.”

Gregory Maguire’s Wicked explores what the iconic characters Glinda the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch of the West were like long before they were first introduced in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. In the prequel, the classic Oz characters — Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion — are revealed to be members of Elphaba and Glinda’s class from Shiz University.

The true identity of Scarecrow is actually Prince Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey), who was magically transformed by Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) in an attempt to save him from harm. Fiyero is Scarecrow — a.k.a. a straw-filled character who doesn’t have a real brain — the love interest who is considered to be superfl

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