The original ... for children, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Langley, South African-born, was selected as the screenwriter because of his whimsical 1937 children’s book, The Tale of the Land ...

In the original stage production, several characters from “Oz”, such as the Cowardly Lion or the Scarecrow, have real world counterparts. Lacking in this version was Almira ... The design of the ...

It sold pretty well, as did his follow-ups, but it took a few more years before Baum wrote the book that made his name.

“Wicked” is a movie based on a Broadway show inspired by a book that is the prequel of a movie which was a take on another ...

"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum was published on May 17, 1900. Now, 125 years later, the Hamlet of Mattydale ...

More than 20 years after first premiering on Broadway and nearly 30 since the original ... movie "The Wizard of Oz," which is, keep up now, quite different from the book "The Wonderful Wizard ...

The Wizard of Oz immediately ... write 13 sequel stories set in Oz. A stage version in 1902 and the iconic musical film in 1939 brought more readers to Baum’s original tale, while the massively ...