Well, Wizard of Oz fans may notice a familiar musical motif, written by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg, used in the Golden Age film that plays in the background during the first few moments of Wicked.

“The Wizard of Oz” went on to be nominated for six Oscars at the 1940 Academy Awards, including best picture, though it lost out to “ Gone With the Wind. ” It did take home a trophy for ...

A critical success on its 1939 release, The Wizard of Oz didn’t make a profit for MGM until the 1949 re-release, earning only $3.02 million at the box office against a budget of $2.8 million ...

The 1939 musical, back in theaters as part of the 2019 TCM Big Screen Classics series, also had the highest per-screen average of any film in wide release that day. The Wizard of Oz took eighth ...

The Wizard of Oz: For the 1939 movie-musical, the Good Witch of the North was deleted and Dorothy encounters Glinda twice, in the land of the munchkins and later in the Emerald City.

‘Wizard of Oz’ a glorious musical journey for all ages at Chicago Shakespeare Directed by Brian Hill with music direction by Kory Danielson, the show has heart, brains, courage and spectacle ...

The Library of Congress has acquired rare handwritten music and lyric sketches from Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg’s The Wizard ...

The long-gestating film version of the popular Broadway musical Wicked will hit theaters December 20, 2019. Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz, who together adapted Gregory Maguire's novel into ...