Showing posts with label MOVIE Wizard of Oz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOVIE Wizard of Oz. Show all posts
30 October 2025

At Last an Our Gang/Wizard of Oz Crossover

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In 1962, as described yesterday , Starlight Musical Theatre of San Diego held tryouts for a production of The Wizard of Oz , using music fro...
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29 October 2025

The Wizard of Balboa Park

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The San Diego Civic Light Opera Association was founded in 1945. Its first show was Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado  in the Wegeforth Bowl...
25 July 2025

Marking the Many Media of Oz

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Tori Calamito, host of the Oz Vlog , is doing a live online event called “Defying Gravity: The Evolution of Oz from Page to Stage to Screen”...
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20 March 2024

The Characters of Oz “a real treat”

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In the latest Baum Bugle from the International Wizard of Oz Club, Scott Cummings calls The Characters of Oz “a real treat and a fresh add...
15 August 2023

“Dorothy the Conqueror” Now Online

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Back in 2005, the International Wizard of Oz Club’s journal, The Baum Bugle , published my article “Dorothy the Conqueror.” It discussed t...
04 July 2023

The Characters of Oz and the Character of Oz the Wizard

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Later this year McFarland will publish The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation , edited by Dina Schiff Massachi...
30 April 2020

Love and the Law in a Terrific Tangle

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A Stranger in Town is a competent B picture from MGM in 1943. It starred Frank Morgan, best remembered as the title character in The Wi...
24 December 2019

Life Lessons from the MGM Movie

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Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons from Over the Rainbow is a short but not insubstantial riff on the MGM Wizard of Oz . The author, Peter Guzz...
10 September 2019

Mid-Century Modern in the Emerald City

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After the original publisher of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz went bankrupt, Bobbs-Merrill became the book’s one and only US publisher. At...
20 August 2019

Television the Great and Terrible

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The MGM Wizard of Oz has gone through three stages defined by how we the public got to watch it. First was the reception that the film...
09 December 2015

The Feelings We Once Had

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Of all the famous dramatic adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , The Wiz in its original form is the most faithful....
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08 December 2015

Fierstein Adding “a Little More Sense” to Oz

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Last week NBC broadcast a restaging of The Wiz that’s also slated for Broadway next year. It has a new book by Harvey Fierstein, who boas...
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24 November 2015

“It was gingham, with checks of white and blue”

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Yesterday Bonhams sold a dress for $1,565,000. It was made for a Kansas farmgirl in the early 20th century. Now that sum’s only about h...
29 September 2015

The Electric “Elements of Oz”

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Elements of Oz is a new stage/video show that seems to combine an homage to the MGM movie with Ozma’s Magic Picture. (Which, as we all kn...
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04 November 2014

The Return of the Cowardly Lion

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On 24 November, the Bonham’s auction house will offer a collection of Hollywood memorabilia that includes Bert Lahr’s Cowardly Lion costu...
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28 October 2014

Monkeying Around with Influences

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This is Harry Bliss’s daily newspaper cartoon from 16 Oct 2014. I like the way he’s combined the costuming from the MGM movie with the ...
07 October 2014

Two Sides of The Little Tin Man

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The Little Tin Man is a new film now opening on the art house circuit. It stars Aaron Beelner as Herman, a young little person who’s got ...
11 September 2014

Gauging Jason Segel’s Knowledge of Children’s Literature

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The news that actor Jason Segel has published a children’s book made me wonder if he had produced good, or even adequate, literature or if ...
14 August 2014

Wrapping Up the Winkie Convention, part 3

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Here’s the final schedule for the final day of the 2014 Winkie Convention in San Diego—Sunday, 10 August. Sunday, 8:30 am Ozzy Tai Chi l...
13 August 2014

Wrapping Up the Winkie Convention, part 2

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The final, actual Winkie Con 2014 schedule continues with the official events of Saturday, 9 August. This was the biggest day of the convent...
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