" 'The Wizard of Oz' won itself a bad reputation because it became a musical comedy and a movie," noted Carol Ryrie Brink in the South Dakota Library Bulletin in 1948.

The Basics: The Wizard of Oz, at Lancaster Opera House at 21 Central Avenue, Lancaster, NY 14088. For tickets, visit www.lancasteroperahouse.csstix.com or call the Box Office at 716-683-1776 ...

The timelines of Wicked and The Wizard of Oz overlap, as Wicked serves as both a reimagining and a prequel to Dorothy’s story. But let’s be real — Wicked is more than just an origin story.

I n 2024, Jon M. Chu's movie adaptation of Wickedmade a huge splash, and because of this, another musical spinoff of The Wizard of Oz should also get its time in the sun. Released at the end of ...

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere will utilize environmental effects and custom scents to make audiences feel as if they are part of the movie and have landed in Kansas and Oz. The sound creative team for The ...

Last weekend, the Port Gamble Theatre showed a movie to an audience for the first time since 1956. That movie they chose was the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz.” I had not seen that movie on ...

When The Wiz transformed The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into an all-black musical, for instance, it was 1975, right in the aftermath of the 1960s liberation movements; songs like "Everybody Rejoice ...

With a wealth of Oz-related adaptations to enjoy — with the first live-action take going back as far as 1908 with now-lost film The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays — there really is something for ...

" 'The Wizard of Oz' was too popular with children," Brink said in her 1948 article. "Presentable copies could never be kept on the shelves because they were worn out by eager hands." ...

The Wizard of Oz won’t be the first movie ever shown at the Sphere, but it will be the first true Hollywood film to screen in the venue. Darren Aronofsky’s Postcard From Earth, ...

With Wicked now in theaters, the adaptation of the Broadway musical — which itself is an adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s novel — has sparked a renewed interested in all things Wizard of Oz.