For the early Wicked rehearsals, Idina Menzel had to stay in Elphaba's green makeup all day so that they could test what the makeup would look like "under different lights."

Nearly 21 years after the original Wicked recording's release, it's only the seventh musical cast album to reach the top 40 in the last 25 years.

Wicked' beats 'Grease', becoming the highest grossing movie based on a Broadway musical at the domestic box office with $263M+.

The film soundtrack has debuted at the #2 spot on the Billboard 200 chart, the highest debut for a big-screen adaptation of a stage musical ever. The Universal Pictures, Verve Records and Republic Records soundtrack to Part One of the movie musical was kept