'Wicked' world: Composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz reflects on his Oz with a twist show
Much to his surprise, Stephen Schwartz discovered that the Japanese don't have a tradition for rhyming lyrics, which makes it impossible to translate lines like "It's obscene!/Like a froggy, ferny cabbage/The baby is unnaturally/Green!" And so far, he hasn't found an equivalent idiom in any language to represent the dual-meaning title "For Good."