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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum, which has been adapted into several different works, the most famous being the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland.

Many of the adaptations have themselves been adapted for pantomime or amateur productions, for example.

Film adaptations

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Poster for The Wizard of Oz (1939)
A 1908 multimedia presentation made by L. Frank Baum
A 1910 film, partly based on the 1902 stage musical, directed by Otis Turner
A loose 1914 adaptation by L. Frank Baum with so many new ideas that it became the basis for The Scarecrow of Oz
A 1921 film, directed by Ray C. Smallwood, never completed
A 1925 film, directed by Larry Semon and notable mostly because it features a young Oliver Hardy
A 1939 musical film by MGM, directed by Victor Fleming and starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and Jack Haley.
A 1971 animated film, begun in 1963, the official sequel to the 1939 film
A 1971 Turkish film, directed by Tunç Başaran (known to bootleggers as "The Turkish Wizard of Oz")
A 1978 musical film based on the 1975 stage musical, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Michael Jackson and Diana Ross
A 1982 anime film by Toho studios, best known for its dubbing cast including Aileen Quinn and Lorne Greene.
A 1985 film by Walt Disney Pictures, an unofficial sequel to the 1939 film, directed by Walter Murch and starring Fairuza Balk


Television adaptations

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Cast of Oz no Mahōtsukai
A 1961 animated series of short episodes based on the Oz characters from the book
A 1964 animated television special sequel-cum-remake of the 1939 film, based on the artistic renderings of the characters in the 1961 animated series
A 1987 anime adaptation created for the Japanese network TV Tokyo and broadcast in the USA on HBO
A 1990 animated series inspired by the 50th anniversary of the 1939 film.
A 1990 anime series, involving Dorothy and the gang travelling the "Galaxy of Oz". Truncated to 76 minutes and dubbed for American release as The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz
A 1996 animated series featuring the children of the original characters
A 2002 television pilot, never broadcast, aimed as an original sequel to the 1939 film
A 2005 television movie, directed by Kirk Thatcher and starring The Muppets and Ashanti
A 2007 television Mini-Series, directed by Nick Willing and starring Zooey Deschanel, Richard Dreyfuss, Alan Cumming, Raoul Trujillo, Neal McDonough, Kathleen Robertson




Stage adaptations

Poster for Wicked
A 1902 stage play by L. Frank Baum, Glen MacDonough, Paul Tietjens et al
A 1945 stage play using songs from the 1939 film; adapted by Frank Gabrielson for the St. Louis Municipal Opera[1][2]
A 1975 musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, featuring exclusively African American actors
A 1987 adaptation by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company, also based on the 1939 film and hewing more closely to its script than the 1945 version did; this adaptation played in London's West End and starred Imelda Staunton as Dorothy[1][3]
A 1995 concert performance of the RSC's adaptation at Lincoln Center, featuring celebrity actors (such as Roger Daltrey, Joel Grey and Nathan Lane)
A 2003 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel


Literary adaptations

Cover of Ozma of Oz

There are 40 "canonical" Oz books, including 14 by Baum, all of which are considered "official" sequels or prequels to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

A 1992 parallel novel by Geoff Ryman focussing on the lives of disparate individuals linked to one another by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the 1939 film
A 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, presenting "The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West". Wicked has two sequels: Son of a Witch (2005) and A Cowardly War (not yet published).


References

  1. ^ a b Raymond, Kurt. "We're Off To Stage The Wizard of Oz". Beyond the Rainbow to Oz website. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
  2. ^ "Wizard of Oz (R.S.C. 1988)". Tams–Witmark Music Library, Inc. 2005. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
  3. ^ "Wizard of Oz (MUNY 1945)". Tams–Witmark Music Library, Inc. 2005. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
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