'I'm telling a silent story': Paul Tazewell on 'Wicked' and the magic of costume design ^65.2%

NPR - By Tonya Mosley - 12/1/2025, 8:23 PM

Wicked costume designer Paul Tazewell has been enchanted by Oz and Munchkinland for most of his life. Growing up, it was an Easter tradition for his family to watch the annual TV broadcast of The Wizard of Oz. Tazewell remembers being struck by the visuals of the 1939 film. "Going from sepia tone in Dorothy's house to technicolor when... more