So Gregory Maguire is writing a sequel to Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Um, yay and all, but didn’t she kind of DIE?

Edit: Thespian_geek on LJ writes: “Gregory said that the success of the musical made him go back and look at the novel, and he realized just how many storylines and threads he had left open. So the sequel is going to be what happened to the other characters, pretty much.”

Hmmph, I rather liked the openness and unresolved-ness of the ending. Oh well, I’m sure it will be excellent, as is everything else GM does.