Glinda hides while they throw a bucket of water upon the Wicked Witch of the West. By all appearances, Elphaba dies, leaving just her black pointed hat — a "gift" from Glinda dating back to ...
Throughout “Wicked,” characters and scenes often contain touchstones from the 1939 movie, starting with that hat on the water and the Witch’s killers marching off to Emerald City.
For the makeup, they use a water-based product from MAC which is ... Alice Fearn who plays the Wicked Witch showed us how her green makeup is applied. The make-up process takes about 25-30 minutes.