Jeffrey McHale’s doc-essay extends its gaze from the L. Frank Baum novel published in 1900 through the beloved Judy Garland ...

As the women’s basketball team was getting ready to win another championship, the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts presented “The Wizard of Oz” on April 6 from 2 ... out over eight decades ago ...

A year later, she had her big break, being cast as Judy Garland’s Dorothy stand-in for The Wizard of Oz and even being gifted her own pair of ruby slippers. Despite her role in The Wizard of Oz ...

Caren Marsh Doll survived a plane crash that killed 35 people in 1949—and that’s not even the most interesting thing about her. Initially, she was told by a doctor that her foot would have to ...

But the story of Oz dates back much further than that. For nearly 125 years, the fantasy world of writer L. Frank Baum’s children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), has continued to ...

Is there nothing the Muppets can’t do? In 2005, The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz hit television with the film being a contemporary adaptation of Baum’s novel, just with Muppets incorporated in the ...

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande may have made the same salary for their work on The Wizard of Oz prequel Wicked, but there wasn't equal pay for the stars of the 1939 classic. Judy Garland played ...

Chu, is a revelatory prequel to “The Wizard of Oz," and the first of a two-part epic. It follows Elphaba and Glinda, who "meet as students at Shiz University in the fantastical Land of Oz and ...

The Wizard of Oz was a pop culture phenomenon practically ... He was replaced by Jack Haley, but found fame later in life when he was cast as Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Asbestos was not the only hazard in The Wizard of Oz. Buddy Ebsen, originally cast as the Tin Man, was hospitalized for two weeks after aluminum powder from his makeup poisoned him. His ...

Wicked’s characterization of Elphaba as a kindhearted activist stands in stark contrast to the evil witch seen in The Wizard of Oz. Glinda ... while trying to cast a spell that would make ...