Galinda

Galinda is a character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel '. Galinda also appears in the Broadway musical Wicked, based on Maguire's novel, in which she goes by the name of Galinda Upland (her last name taken from the Uplands and Upper Uplands, which are regions in the land of Oz). She is based on the character Glinda from the classic L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz.

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Galinda is beautiful and popular. Her path crosses with that of Elphaba (the future Wicked Witch of the West) while attending Shiz University, and while the two girls dislike each other at first, they eventually become unlikely friends. During the course of both the novel and the musical, Galinda changes her name to the more familiar "Glinda." In the musical, the character was first played by Kristin Chenoweth.

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Gregory Maguire: Gregory Maguire is an American author. He is the author of the novels ', Son of a Witch, Lost, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and Mirror, Mirror for adults. In addition, he is also the author of many other books geared toward children. Maguire often uses existing literature as a basis for his w...

1995: 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-2005): http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/...

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