Wicked is an enormously popular multimedia franchise with millions of fans around the world and over the rainbow. But I feel extremely comfortable saying my two daughters — aged nine and eight years old — are in the top five percent of obsessive Wicked super nerds .

They have Wicked dolls and brooms and pointy hats. They sing Wicked songs while cleaning their rooms, or driving to visit their grandparents, or pretty much any time there are six or seven consecutive quiet seconds in our house. My youngest had a Wicked themed birthday party when she was six — a year before the hit Broadway musical about the witches of Oz became a movie. They performed “What Is This Feeling?” together at their school’s talent show last spring — in costume and green

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