PERFORMER | Miss Piggy character |
Eric Jacobson puppeteer | |
DEBUT | 2005 |
In the 2005 TV-movie The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West is the main antagonist. She is the sister of the Wicked Witch of the East, Tattypoo, and Glinda, who once performed as a pop music group, Four Little Pigs. The Witch pursues Dorothy Gale for the silver slippers, which she felt by familial inheritance rights should have gone to her.
As in the original The Wizard of Oz novel, but not the 1939 film portrayal by Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch wears an eyepatch. Beneath the patch lies a glass eye which gives her telescopic vision. She also sports an enchanted biker cap with which she commands her Flying Monkeys. She receives her comeuppance when tap water is used in her bath.
Other versions[]
- The Wicked Witch of the West appeared on Sesame Street in 1976 (Episode 0847), with Margaret Hamilton reprising her role from the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz.
- The role was played by Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer in The Wonderful Winter of Oz.
- A poster for a Sesame Street Community Theater production at SeaWorld lists Oscar the Grouch in the role.