Is Elphaba's costume different in 'Wicked' than in 'The Wizard of Oz'?

Answer 1

Yes. In both the movie and the play she has green skin and wears dark clothes with a pointed hat, but the similarities stop there.

Her skin in 'Wicked' is a light shade of green, almost emerald, and is flawless. In the movie her skin is much darker and there's quite a few fake warts over her face.

The movie costume is the same throughout the film, a dark dress with a pointed hat. In 'Wicked', she has several costumes, the most famous being her Act II dress. The bodice is form-fitting and black with lighter embroidery of cobwebs, Spiders, etc worked into the fabric. The skirt is made of small ruffles in varying shades of color--anywhere from black to dark blue to dark red to purple. The original costume cost around $20,000 to make.

Her hat isn't just a pointed cone like in the movie. It's peaked but tilted slightly to the side, and the wide brim swoops down low over the right side of her face and turns up like the brim of a cowboy hat on her left.

She has several other outfits in 'Wicked'. Her Shiz uniform is a dark blue turtleneck with a blazer and skirt of the same color. Her hair is done in a braid, and she wears a blue knit cap pulled low on her head. For shoes she wears heavy knee-high military boots.

The dress she wears in "Dancing Through Life" is navy blue as well and is cut at a slant to fall just above her knees. She wears her trademark hat then, too, but there's a small black flower on the side which is taken off for the rest of the play. She keeps the boots on.

For "Defying Gravity" she wears a plain, button-down black dress with her trademark peaked hat. She loses the military boots for more elegant black shoes.