But why are the shoes, originally owned by the Wicked Witch of the East, silver and not red in the film version of Wicked? The answer is simple—Universal Pictures doesn’t have the rights to ...
Frank Baum's original novel and casts the shoes as silver. We see the slippers briefly on Dorothy's feet in the opening number, but more meaningfully, they appear on the feet of Elphaba's sister ...
But in the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway hit "Wicked," sharp-eyed fans noticed a shift: Nessarose's magical shoes are silver instead of ruby red. While this might seem like a divergence ...