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No Good Deed is a musical number from the hit Broadway musical Wicked. It is widely regarded as the most powerful piece of the musical; and the most emotional. Sung by Elphaba; the "Wicked Witch of the West", it is a song about Elphaba's anger with herself over Fiyero, her lover who is being concurrently tortured by the Wizard's guards over her whereabouts. The song is also about how the citizens of Munchkinland believe that she is the wicked witch; when all she does trying to assist people and beasts, though her assistances all end wrongly. Originally it was sung by Tony Award Winning Actress Idina Menzel, who is known for, as Ben Brantley of the New York Times describes it, her "iron strong larynx". Stephen Schwartz composed it specifically to showcase Menzel's belting talent, in addition to giving her a second-act solo song.
