‘Wicked’ fans are warning about the book: It’s very different than the musical
Maguire’s “Wicked” doesn’t contain hallmarks from the musical, like a “Popular”-esque union between Glinda and Elphaba. But it takes detours the musical never would have space for — long explanations of religious sects, descriptions of terrain never mentioned in the musical and, well, quite a bit of R-rated content.