Benson James Boone is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in Monroe, Washington, his career began when he started sharing his music on the social media platform TikTok, subsequently auditioning for American Idol.
Wicked is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (published in 1995), itself a retelling of the classic 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz (1939).