Showing posts with label Tin Woodman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tin Woodman. 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 February 2020

Art for “The Axman’s Arm”

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At Skookworks, David Lee Ingersoll has just shared his illustrations from the 2006 issue of Oziana magazine, which I edited and produced...
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18 September 2018

More on Woodman and Woodsman

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My examination of the shifting prevalence of “woodman” and “woodsman” and what that implies for how people speak of L. Frank Baum ’s charac...
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28 August 2018

The Shift from Woodman to Woodsman

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One of the attractions at OzCon earlier this month was a showing of James Ortiz’s The Woodsman , produced in New York in 2015 . It was a str...
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18 July 2017

The Tin Woodman of Forkland

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Starting in 1993, Jim Bird has been building statuary out of old farm equipment and hay bales on his fields in Forkland, Alabama. Among th...
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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21 January 2015

Woodsman, Spare This Retelling

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Today’s New York Times offers Laura Collins-Hughes’s review of The Woodsman , an hourlong play inspired by  The Tin Woodman of Oz : A ...
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05 March 2014

“Shining in a ray of sunshine that fell between the trees”

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The Bits & Pieces catalogue is offering this “Tin Woodsman” garden statue . It’s 30" high and “made of soldered iron.” (Ironic in m...
04 March 2014

Disability Studies and the Wizard of Oz

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The Sentinel of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, reports that Joshua R. Eyler , director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice Unive...
03 December 2013

Parade Balloons Over 75 Years

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Macy’s 1939 parade included a Tin Man balloon to promote MGM’s new movie, The Wizard of Oz . For the movie’s seventy-fifth anniversary (...
29 January 2013

A Darker Dorothy in London

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Opening next month at the Immersion Theatre in London , Dorothy in Oz , a “skewed adaptation” of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of O...
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26 June 2012

Open Heart Surgery on the Yellow Brick Road?

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This portrayal of the companions from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is by Sabrina Alberghetti, an artist in Vancouver, via deviantArt. She ...
22 May 2012

Darkside Is Coming, Now Nothing Is Real

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The Morton Report recently featured Bill Baker’s online conversation with artist Tommy Castillo about a book called The Art of The Darksid...
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22 November 2011

The Tin Woodman’s Head on My Mind

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In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , W. W. Denslow gave the Tin Woodman a skull-shaped head. Of course, the long nose and ears riveted on tha...
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13 September 2011

A View of Oz from Oz

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The honored Australian illustrator Robert R. Ingpen created this watercolor for an edition of L. Frank Baum ’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz commi...
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07 September 2011

Okay, Break It Up

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Artist Jesse Lonergan is offering silk-screened prints of this battle royale at SPX this weekend. Among the combatants, visible toward th...
19 July 2011

“Follow the Yellow Brick Road” as an Earworm

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Conversations at the recent Winkie Convention made me resolve to post something Ozzy on every Tuesday, at least, in order to justify this b...
20 December 2010

Exploring Oz through Google Books Ngram Viewer

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As I discussed yesterday , I played a little with the Google Books Ngram Viewer last week. This program graphs the relative frequencies of w...
24 November 2010

News That Would Break His Heart

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This week the Associated Press issued a story about tests it commissioned on drinking glasses bought at the Warner Brothers Studio store. T...