Wicked East Lansing is an incredibly imaginative back-story to The Wizard of Oz and has been providing entertainment to Broadway audiences for years. It is an untold story of the witches of Oz The Wicked East Lansing Witch of the East is known as Nessarose and is born without arms. Wicked East Lansing explores the idea that the infamous antagonist we call the Wicked East Lansing Witch of the West was misconstrued and victimized. The misunderstood Wicked East Lansing Witch of the West is known to be green, evil and covetous of ruby slippers. The Life and Times of the Wicked East Lansing Witch of the West, was published in 1995 and adapted into the current hit Broadway musical Wicked East Lansing in 2003.However, Wicked East Lansing the musical is not Wicked East Lansing the novel.