In the photo on the left by Joan Marcus, Elphaba's sister Nessarose in the wheelchair shows the school colors for Shiz--a blue and white design. Elphaba is in dark blue, Morrible in red, Galinda/Glinda in perky white. Costumes help describe their personalities and the central characters' emotional journeys. Hilferty explains in an Entertainment Design magazine article that she combined the Shiz University colors of white and blue for the ensemble outfits and used the colors individually for Glinda and Elphaba. "What I was trying to get at the end was an icon for each of them, where they become specifically representative: Glinda for goodness and Elphaba [who publically represented the Wicked Witch of the West] for evil. By using blue and white as the school colors, I was able to have Elphaba all in blue, and Glinda all in white. The goal was to make the two women be the most outstanding thing in every world they entered." Later she used pink for Glinda's party outfit.
Resource: www.musicalschwartz.com

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