The Wizard of Oz was an entertainment franchise before franchises were a concept. The original 14-book series by Baum is a ...

"The Wizard of Oz" was a best-selling 1900 book by Frank L. Baum. The story enjoyed several stage and screen productions in the decades that followed. The 1939 film featured 17-year-old actress ...

And of course there is the evergreen 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz," which is likely to be popping up on TV all through the holiday season. Does anyone still read the "Oz" books? In short ...

The Wizard of Oz (1939 ... are in the book at all, the opening scenes of which focus instead on Dorothy, her aunt and uncle, Toto, and the very gray midwestern landscape. 3.

This fall marked the centennial of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," the ... still like the books today. But the first time I read "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" in second grade, I knew ...

The first American movie to properly revisit The Wizard of Oz was, like Wicked, a book-turned-Broadway-turned-movie-musical, though it was adapted directly (if freely) from the Baum text ...

“Wicked,” as you likely know, is a prequel to the original “The Wizard of Oz” movie, which itself is based on L. Frank Baum’s expansive children’s book series. If you want to learn ...

This book presents a unique perspective on why Oz persists in American popular culture and offers a fresh way of thinking about musicals and the people who have made them. Using the Wizard of Oz ...