Wicked Took Inspiration From The City silhouette . ... but it leaned even more on the imagery from 1939's The Wizard of Oz. The Emerald City is a prime example.

Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore. She and her ruby slippers are spending the weekend in the Emerald City — Greenville — as the Eastern North Carolina Dance Foundation presents “The Wizard of ...

Debuting in 2017, Emerald City was a series that aired on NBC for just one, 10-episode season. The series, created by Matthew Arnold and Josh Friedman and directed by Tarsem Singh was a sort of ...

It also gives us a further timeframe of reference, saying the Wizard was in power for roughly 40 years before departing Emerald City, like we see at the end of "The Wizard of Oz." ...

This is a direct reference to a scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Wicked Elphaba creates a field of poppies to slow down Dorothy and her friends on their way to Emerald City.