Madame Morrible
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Madame Morrible is a character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The character also appears in the Broadway musical Wicked, which is based on Maguire's novel. She is the wicked headmistress of Shiz University and a cohort of The Wizard of Oz. The role of Madame Morrible in the musical was originated by Carole Shelley.
Madame Morrible is an adept sorceress and instructs a sorcery seminar at Shiz.
In the novel, Madame Morrible isn't as horrible as she is portrayed in the musical. She is often described as a "fish shaped woman." She often has a Tik-Tok machine man called Grommetik to do her bidding and later commanded the creature to kill Doctor Dillamond, which Ama Clutch — Galinda's chaperone — witnessed. She uses Shiz to recruit young girls as soldiers and spies for the Wizard, but does not directly influence him. She believes that Animals should be "seen and not heard," which she states at a poetry reading, known as a Quell.
In the musical, Madame Morrible tricks Elphaba into using her powers to create winged monkeys for the Wizard. When Elphaba realizes this and flees, Madame Morrible spreads the rumor that she is the Wicked Witch of the West. Madame Morrible is especially talented at controlling the weather, and is later responsible for creating the cyclone that kills Nessarose (the Wicked Witch of the East) and brings Dorothy Gale into the land of Oz.
In the novel, Elphaba desires to kill Madame Morrible by bashing her head in with a marble trophy, but is minutes too late and ends up merely assaulting Madame Morrible's corpse. Since the musical is more oriented to younger audiences and families, Madame Morrible is not killed in that adaptation. Instead, Glinda orders the royal guards of Oz to take Madame Morrible to prison.
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