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Those witches in this behind-the-scenes story of “The Wizard of Oz” are still defying gravity, but now — double, double, toil and trouble — they seem to be coasting. “Wicked” has been playing long enough for its first- (and second-) string stars to have moved on, but not long enough for audiences to have forgotten them. The current cast is a patchwork of wildly uneven talents; Elphaba isn’t the only one who looks green.

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