Is gregory maguire gay
Gregory Maguire, author of "Wicked," will be coming to Fresno State in May, 2010, for "Oz – The Books Conference." Read more about it HERE. More details coming soon.
OZ: THE BOOKS CONFERENCE
May 14-16, 2010 California State University, Fresno
Guest speakers and book signings by authors including:
• Gregory Maguire – author of “Wicked,” “Son of a Witch” and “Lion Among Men”
• Eric Shanower – author of “Adventures in Oz” and “The Age of Bronze”
• Dee Michel – author of “Friends of Dorothy: Why Gay Men and Boys Love Oz”
• David Maxine – producer of Grammy-award nominated Best Historical Album: “Vintage Recordings of the 1903 Musical: The Wizard of Oz”
From the LA Times
Gregory Maguire, author of seven books for adults and five for young readers, is probably best acknowledged for "Wicked," his retelling of "The Wizard of Oz" from the witch’s point of view.
But creating stories that explore the nature of evil, or what we perceive as evil, hasn
How ‘Wicked’ creator Gregory Maguire’s hold story helped him channel Elphaba’s
The long-awaited “Wicked” feature is now in theaters worldwide.
It’s based on the 2003 musical, that’s based on the best-selling 1995 guide by Massachusetts resident Gregory Maguire: “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.”
We visited Maguire at his home outside Boston to travel back to where it all began — both for his own being and for his trip into the world of Oz.
Maguire was raised in Albany, the middle child in a family of seven siblings.
“Very few kids understand when they are very young that they’re going to grow up to be gay or lesbian. And I certainly did not know that myself,” he said. “I was both thronged with loving brothers and sisters, but also isolated by feeling that I was just a little different from them.”
Though he couldn’t quite call the reason why he felt alternative until his adv high school and early college years, he felt it made him experience separate from his siblings, he said.
“I do deliberate that if you are trying to figure out your identity in a crowd of kids…one of the tools for a artistic kid is to say, ‘Let me imagine myself somewhere else,’” he s
What is the essence of evil?
This is the scrutinize that the much celebrated musical Wicked thrusts upon us – and it is no coincidence that the framework of evil is something that everyone in the LGBT community knowingly or unknowingly, has had to grapple with. Even today, there are those who tell us that by virtue of who we adoration, we are damned, in other words, evil. When I came out in the 1980s, our redefinition of sinister became an oft repeated slogan: the moral majority is neither.
But somehow the accusations never go away. As Gregory Maguire, readings/appearances of the novel that the compete is based on -- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West -- writes, “It isn’t difficult to find bad in this world,” said the Witch. “Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.”
Wicked, the musical, has been around for a while -- and has reached the mega-hit pinnacle of becoming a cliché. As I tell my students, a cliché is a word or phrase that is so overused that it is in need of further definition. And my definition of
4. But Are They Gay? A Queer Take on Elphaba and Glinda
Questions eight and nine asked respondents to characterize the bond between Gelphie, and asked if Wicked is a “queer” musical and how so, respectively. The short answers are yes, most ship it, but whether it is a queer musical was very up for debate. Among the six heterosexual respondents, for instance, four outright said that the show was not gender non-conforming or that Glinda and Elphaba were not a couple, while one said she could view the potential and one said Gelphie is her OTP (one true pairing). Among queer respondents, many saw the musical as not as queer as the book, or not queer at all because characters who are canonically queer in the guide are not discussed or erased. For instance, Gregory Maguire has confirmed that Elphaba and Glinda were in some type of relationship, so both are canonically bisexual, and Elphaba is hinted to be intersex. Other folks saw the show as definitely queer or the potential for it to be read as queer, understanding its need to insert the love triangle and make the show “family friendly” in the name of ticket sales, but “the way it is structured, the choices musically etc make it clear tha