I Fell in l’amour with "The Wizard Oz" musical from MGM when I was seven years old. When Jarry Maren died, in 2018, I saw for the first time that Casting Little People was a REALLY BIG DEAL, because NO OTHER MOVIE cast disabled actors! As proud of this as a woman with Cerebral Palsy as I am, lire the book expands on this theme for me.

For starters, there are the Munchkins, Who have Dwarfism. In the Land of Oz, after Dorothy's house falls on the Wicked Witch of the East, they seem to live normal lives, the fact that they are small is only brought up once par L. Frank Baum. To live in a place...

This is a research paper I did for my independent study class for Theatre where I had to talk about the stage comédies musicales Wicked, The Wiz, and my college's production of The Wizard of Oz. I felt like posting it on here. I hope toi guys enjoy it!

The story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz par L. Frank Baum is one that is very well known and has had many different adaptions. The most famous adaptation is the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland. It was also because of that film that inspired both a musical based off the film, and the novel Wicked: The Life and Time of the Wicked Witch...