According to the director and cast, the biggest challenge of creating the Arts One Presents summer musical "The Wizard of Oz, ...

For Glinda, this took the form of the bubble shape and the color pink associated with Billie Burke’s Good Witch from “The Wizard of Oz.” “But then we made it our own and how we wanted to ...

Wicked’s Ariana Grande channeled her inner Glinda—and Audrey Hepburn—on the 2025 Golden Globes red carpet with her darker hair transformation.

Beyond Billie Burke’s personal life, there’s a surprising amount of queerness and playing with gender in Oz—though any self-respecting Friend of Dorothy doesn’t need to be told that.

Billie Burke was the legendary actress who portrayed Glinda the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz. Her real life was one of enchantment—and agony.

Eighty-five years ago, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke and their castmates brought the classic story to technicolor life MGM Studios/Archive Photos/Getty The Wizard of Oz has become ...

Glinda makes a show-stopping debut at the beginning of the "Wicked" movie and musical, flying into Munchkinland in a bubble, mirroring a scene in "The Wizard of Oz" in which Billie Burke’s ...

When I think of the iconic Glinda, it is Billie Burke as Glinda in that pink dress and how she arrives in the bubble. So I really wanted to pursue the possibility of using pink.

Butterflies are also a major part of the Galinda/Glinda aesthetic in Wicked. As Billy Burke’s original Glinda-inspired Tazewell look in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz when designing for Grande ...

The singer then asked Barrymore how she was able to “pull this off,” wondering if she had to “break in” to obtain the wand, which was used by Billie Burke, who played Glinda the Good Witch ...

"You look so perfect with it," Barrymore said, before revealing how she got the wand on her show. (L) Billie Burke is Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the Wizard of Oz, 1939. Alamy, The Drew ...