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Any Wizard of Oz fans out there?

#1 Postby GalvestonDuck » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:10 pm

How cool is this? Someone wrote a prequel, which tells the early story of Glinda, the Good Witch
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and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West
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and now it's also a Broadway play.

Well, anyway, I thought it was neat. I think it's cool when people get imaginative and write about what may have happened before or after we originally met certain characters (like in prequels and sequels) or with secondary characters (like Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll's maid).
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#2 Postby vbhoutex » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:32 pm

Kewl!! I wonder if there is going to be a movie about it? I can't count the number of times I've watched WOO!!
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#3 Postby GalvestonDuck » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:33 pm

I think it's bound to happen. Don't most Broadway plays, even musicals, also become movies?
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#4 Postby vbhoutex » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:35 pm

GalvestonDuck wrote:I think it's bound to happen. Don't most Broadway plays, even musicals, also become movies?


A lot do! I was fortunate enough to see Chicago on Broadway and as a movie!!! I loved both!!
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#5 Postby David » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:42 pm

I love Kansas! :)
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#6 Postby Skywatch_NC » Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:44 pm

David wrote:I love Kansas! :)


There's NO place like HOME *tap tap*....there's NO place like HOME! :D
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#7 Postby Dee Bee » Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:39 pm

I've just started reading the book "Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire. I'm only on page 40 (of 406), but I'm already fascinated. I wonder if this book has any connections to the play? Regardless, I hope the play eventually makes its way to SE Florida. I love Oz and I love musicals! :D
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#8 Postby GalvestonDuck » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:52 pm

Dee Bee wrote:I've just started reading the book "Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire. I'm only on page 40 (of 406), but I'm already fascinated. I wonder if this book has any connections to the play? Regardless, I hope the play eventually makes its way to SE Florida. I love Oz and I love musicals! :D


Why, yes it is! I failed to post the link (sorry about that -- got too involved with the pics).

http://www.wickedthemusical.com/synopsis.htm
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#9 Postby breeze » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:57 pm

I'll get you....and, your little dog, too....! ;)
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#10 Postby HurricaneGirl » Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:33 am

I am probably one of the biggest Wizard of Oz fans in the world. I love that movie and watch it whenever it's on.

I also played the Wicked Witch of the West in a High School production.. I tried out for the part of Dorothy but I didn't get it. I actually enjoyed playing the Witch especially during the "Death Scene". :)
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#11 Postby streetsoldier » Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:16 am

No, my "little dog" will get YOU (and lick you to death)! :wink:
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#12 Postby weathermom » Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:02 am

L Frank Baum who wrote The Wizard of Oz wrote a total of 14 OZ books. I dont know if the Broadway show is based on any of them or on the book that Dee Bee mentioned.
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#13 Postby beachbyrd » Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:56 pm

Picture this...pre cable days...One of the networks (can't remember which one) showed the Wizard of OZ annually...My older brother and I lying on our stomaches faces on hands in fron of the tv with a big bowl of popcorn up past our bedtime! It was a tradition... My huisband and I just bought it on DVD last week, but it won't be the same!! :D
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#14 Postby vbhoutex » Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:07 pm

Yep I remember those days(without a sibling though). Watched it every year.
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#15 Postby Windsong » Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:39 pm

yep. Family tradition. Hey, remember when the whole movie was black and white? It was a BIG deal when it was "colorized" from Munchkin land onward. Each frame was hand painted!
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#16 Postby beachbyrd » Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:51 pm

I can't remember when thewy colorized the OZ part.....Do you? I was born in 1972...was it before or after?
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#17 Postby breeze » Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:19 pm

streetsoldier wrote:No, my "little dog" will get YOU (and lick you to death)! :wink:


HAAAA!!! I love doggie-sugars! ;)

Wasn't Oz colorized in the early 80's?
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#18 Postby azskyman » Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:04 pm

I was lucky enough to interview one of the remaining technical crew members a couple decades ago who told me how they used diatomacious earth in the making of that most famous tornado!

In my lifetime I have met people just like the wizard, just like tin man, just like every character including the wicked witch, Ms. Gulch, and Dorothy too.

And what little girl hasn't wanted a pair of red slippers to take her off to Kansas and beyond!
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#19 Postby GalvestonDuck » Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:48 pm

Ooh! It's a weather post now! I'll move the thread. :wink: Very cool segue into the main passion of S2Kers, Steve!


"Oz never did give nothing to the tin man...that he didn't, didn't already have" ~America :)
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#20 Postby bfez1 » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:10 am

Love the Wizard of Oz!
One of my fav movies of all time.
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