Melt

12 August 2007: Family field trip to Wicked the musical at the Pantages theatre.

While reading the book I became intrigued with Elphaba's relationship with other women characters. Besides Elphaba/Glinda, my particular interests focused on the connection with her mother, Melena.

I found their mother-daughter relationship so caustic, I suspect Elphaba's aversion to water began during her gestation - burning in the fluid of her mother's womb...

Image from: *sean