Glinda Will get Her Personal Spinoff Much less Than A Week After Depraved: For Good’s Launch

Lower than every week after the theatrical launch of Depraved: For Good, Glinda is formally getting her personal spinoff. The beloved character is performed by Ariana Grande-Butera in Depraved and Depraved: For Good. The second installment had a record-breaking field workplace debut, grossing $150 million domestically and $226 million worldwide.

Now, Harper Collins has introduced {that a} novel titled Galinda: A Charmed Childhood by Gregory Maguire is being launched on September 29, 2026. Because the title signifies, the e book will discover Galinda’s childhood earlier than she attended Shiz College, had her life eternally modified after assembly Elphaba, and adjusted her identify to Glinda.

The novel can also be being described as a “sister quantity” to the best-selling Elphie: A Depraved Childhood, a e book about Elphaba’s childhood by Maguire that was printed on March 25, 2025. A restricted variety of deluxe Galinda editions can be found now that preorders have opened, with these variations of the e book together with stenciled edges, designed endpapers, and different options. Try the announcement publish under:

One of many methods Depraved: For Good adjustments the Broadway musical is that it options flashbacks to Glinda’s childhood, which present that since she was younger, she had a deep need to do magic and has at all times needed to impress others. These flashbacks will now be significantly expanded on with a whole e book devoted to the story of Glinda’s youth, which is teased within the e book’s official synopsis:

Who was Glinda the Good Witch earlier than she floated down in her bubble to greet Dorothy? Who was Glinda earlier than she turned Elphaba Thropp’s magnetic and standard roommate at Shiz College?

Nicely, earlier than then, she was Galinda. With a “ga.”

The youngest of 4 kids in a high-born household down on their luck, Galinda is each pampered and ignored. Her pure grace guarantees to raise her within the district dance competitions—however these efforts distract her from seeing the rising resentments of native retailers who disapprove of her household’s enterprise methods. Enmired within the self-satisfactions and unnamed timidities of childhood, Galinda finds in herself neither canniness nor the necessity to domesticate it. Nonetheless, as her father deftly pivots across the snares and nets laid for him by his rivals, Galinda begins to bounce towards a life which may carry her above her proud, if hardscrabble, childhood.

Galinda reveals the woman behind the bubbly, shallow cliché—providing followers of Depraved their first richer glimpse into the lifetime of a beloved and iconic character.

Gregory Maguire’s historical past with Depraved predates the Broadway musical’s debut in 2003. Maguire’s Depraved: The Life and Instances of the Depraved Witch of the West was printed in 1995 and have become the inspiration for the musical, with there being many tonal and plot variations between the 2 variations of the story. That is essential to remember with Galinda, as it’ll exist within the continuity of Maguire’s printed tales and never of the Broadway musical or films.

Maguire later continued the story he started by writing sequels in The Depraved Years collection, together with Son of a Witch in 2005, A Lion Amongst Males in 2008, and Out of Oz in 2011. This collection largely focuses on Elphaba’s son, Liir, and her granddaughter, Rain. A decade later, Rain’s story was additional prolonged in Maguire’s One other Day collection.

A brand new Depraved universe film is reportedly in improvement, with discussions already going down, however nothing is official but. Given this, Galinda: A Charmed Childhood is the subsequent confirmed story on this universe for followers after Depraved: For Good, though it’ll happen in a unique continuity than the musical and flicks.