Wicked showcases several other Wizard of Oz backstories, including that of Dorothy's "Cowardly Lion." Wicked primarily follows Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), an ostracized sorcery student who is cast ...

Neither the film, musical nor the original Wizard of Oz filled in the blanks on how the Cowardly Lion grew up. Viewers met the lion cub in Wicked Part One. Picture: Universal Pictures The next tim ...

Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz and the lion cub in Wicked. Bettmann / Getty Images/ Universal Pictures. The Cowardly Lion we see in The Wizard of Oz also appears in Wicked ...

And, "Wicked" was not the first "Wizard of Oz ... Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion walking down the Yellow Brick Road. When Glinda makes her initial entrance, it's in her iconic bubble ...

The Cowardly Lion is the little cub Elphaba and Fiyero rescue from a cage and release into the wild. Picture: Wicked Movie YouTube / Alamy You also meet the Wizard of Oz's Cowardly Lion in Wicked ...

The musical also provides a backstory for the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, the Wicked Witch of the East and even the flying monkeys. One of the factors that complicates Elphaba and ...

“We took a shot and divided Wicked into two parts,” Platt said ... with the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion, golden bricks, a wedding, and flying monkeys, hinting at significant ...

Click your heels and follow the Yellow Brick Road to Oz with Dorothy, her little dog Toto, Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the ...

Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow to the story. The trailer also included Erivo and Grande singing popular Wicked second-act songs “For Good” and “No Good Deed” but did not preview the two new ...