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Cartoonist William Allen Rogers in 1906 sees the political uses of Oz: he depicts William Randolph Hearst as Scarecrow stuck in his own Ooze in Harper's Weekly. Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of ...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. [1] It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. [2]
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) Created by: L. Frank Baum: Portrayed by: Frank Moore (His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz) Larry Semon (The Wizard of Oz) Ray Bolger (The Wizard of Oz) Hinton Battle (The Wiz; 1975 musical) Michael Jackson (The Wiz; 1978 film) Justin Case (Return to Oz) Jackson Browne (The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True)
The Land of Oz is a fantasy world introduced in the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow.. Oz consists of four vast quadrants, the Gillikin Country in the north, Quadling Country in the south, Munchkin Country in the east, and Winkie Country in the west.
A pointed black hat resting on a pool of water. A broken window. A yellow brick road being traveled by a girl in a gingham dress surrounded by a lion, a tin man and a scarecrow.
Loosely based on the original 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" written by L. Frank Baum, "Wicked" tells the background story of the witches we meet in Oz during Dorothy's famous visit.
In The Magic of Oz, Kiki Aru transformed himself into a bird and flew over the Deadly Desert from the Land of Oz, exploring the various countries of Nonestica. In Kabumpo in Oz, a giant Ruggedo hopped right over the Deadly Desert and ran back to his mountain in the Land of Ev after Princess Ozma's palace got stuck in his hair spikes. In the ...
If the Wicked movies follow a similar timeline to both the book and the musical, then the events from The Wizard of Oz will be featured in Wicked Part 2 (out November 21, 2025) and occur as early ...