I assume they must have just been rushed given all of the on set accidents, but it's just so wild no release since has fixed this obvious error

The 1939 cast who saw the show were reported to have enjoyed “The Wiz.” In Jack Haley’s case, he supposedly had low expectations going in but left the show singing its praises. At the 1975 Tony Awards, Jack Haley presented the show with its award for Best Choreography, and Ray Bolger presented the show with its award for Best Direction.

Slide 1: Margaret Hamilton meets Hinton Battle (Scarecrow), Mabel King (Wicked Witch), and Tasha Thomas (Aunt Em).

Slide 2: Jack Haley with Tiger Haynes (Tin Man)

Slides 3-5: Ray Bolger with Hinton Battle (Scarecrow), André De Shields (the Wizard), and Ted Ross (Lion) 

The Hollywood Museum has had a pair of Ruby Slippers on display in their lobby for several decades that they claim are authentic, and were primarily used in close up shots like when the Witch tries and fails to remove the slippers and when Dorothy clicks her heels to go home. There's not a lot of talk online about this pair, which is strange given that most of the existing pairs have had a decent amount of coverage on them. Either way, I was curious if anyone had any insight on these.

I've been working on some of my own character designs based on L Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for a while now. I went back and read through the whole novel again while working on them, to stick close to Baum's descriptions but still leave it to my imagination and personal tastes.

I've previously drawn character designs like this for Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid, and plan to do so for other fairy tales and literary works that I'm interested in. For now, this is my take on the Kansas characters in Baum's novel.

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Here is a follow up to my previous post - this is a more in depth look at my interpretation of Dorothy Gale! If there's one thing I love, it's characters having multiple outfit changes. While Baum only described two outfits for Dorothy in the book (as far as I noticed?) I couldn't pass up the opportunity to give Dorothy several different looks throughout her journey! This is only the FIRST set of looks I drew for her.

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The Wizard of Oz was my favorite movie as a kid, and honestly might still be. I always loved her outfit, and when I was about 18 I decided to make it. I researched what all the screen accurate materials were and started with the ruby slippers. I found a pair of replicas that looked pretty good other than the bows, which I removed and replaced with bows I made myself. Now with right embellishments, leather, bugle beads and two different types of rhinestones. I also sewed more sequins onto the shoes along with some other modifications.

The whole dress is made of cotton, and I made sure to use vintage hook and eye tape just like the real enclosures. The sleeves are made of cotton organdy, which is similar to organza. I raided my Grandmother’s button tin to find the same buttons too.

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Judy’s death was front-page news, and although Judy’s health at the time was a concern to many fans, her death was still a shock nonetheless.

This illustration was made by Jack Jurden and appeared in The Wilmington Evening Journal two days after her death on June 22, 1969.

I just opened a short term rental in Seattle, WA. It’s called the Over the Rainbow House in the Emerald City! It took a life time of love for the Wizard of Oz, 3 years of planning and building and a very hardworking husband! What do you think?

I’ve wanted to make my own version of Dorothy for a while, but instead of simply recreating the original dress I wanted to adapt her visual identity to something that felt like me.
I kept the elements I immediately associate with Dorothy — light blue gingham, white fabric, red shoes and the overall simplicity of the farm-girl look — but reworked them into a masculine outfit.
I drafted and sewed the costume myself. For the shirt I chose a white broderie anglaise fabric that I completely fell in love with, while the blue gingham became the main part of the outfit.
Oz (and Wicked) has meant a lot to me creatively over the years, so finally wearing this felt strangely personal.
I’d genuinely love to know what Oz fans think of this interpretation of Dorothy.

I know they are not good but I tried my best and yes I could’ve painted the slippers red first but I liked them that way 🥺❤️

Okay so this has driven me insane for years.

After Dorothy is unable to get in the balloon as the wizard flies off Glinda appears. Dorothy tells her she wants to go home but now can’t.

Glinda said you’ve had the ability to go home all this time.

She tells her the shoes will send her home Glinda is asked why didn’t she just tell Dorothy that right away.

Glinda said “she had to figure it out on her own”

I’m always like…girl, she didn’t you literally just told her. She didn’t figure it out on her own.

I’ve always theorized that “she had to figure out on her own” as meaning she had to truly without any doubt “want to go home” for them to work.

Either that or Glinda really is a bitch. She basically called Dorothy ugly when they met.

For those that don’t know, Princess Ozma was the main character of the second land of Oz book which ends with her becoming queen of all of Oz and she is a recurring character in every book since. But because of the huge popularity of the Wizard of Oz 1939 movie and adaptations since that is either retellings or unofficial spin-offs of that movie which has resulted in Ozma being forgotten while the Wicked Witch due to being far more prevalent in the 1939 movie than she was in book as well as Margaret Hamilton’s performance the Wicked Witch is now an icon of the franchise.