Maguire’s Wisdom

Though his novel has become a best seller and seen a Tony Award winning Broadway adaptation, Gregory Maguire still remains as humble as ever. The prequel fantasy to the L. Frank Baum story of “The Wizard of Oz” is coming to Indiana for the first time, though his ever growing emprie isn’t doing anything to keep Maguire’s head from growing - especially because of his children. “But for my mental health, I am grateful for the presence of my three adopted children,” he said to the IndyStar while at home in Concord, Massachusetts. “Their needs of learning, their spelling words and doing piano practice, their self-esteem and ego, are more important than my need to prance around in front of audiences and readers accepting praise…they keep me from following the cocaine of audience appreciation….the letters from readers have awakened aspirations to continue the story, so I’ve done two more sequels - “Son of a Witch” and “A Lion Among Men” - and I have one more planned that I hope to have finished by the end of the year.” The seminal novel sold four million copies and earned Tonys when it appeared on stage in 2004 before touring nationally in 2005. Get your Wicked tickets today from StubHub.

Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2009

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