the wizard of oz is going back on tour!- Page 2

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 2:10pm

Oh...

Random tidbit,
The witch wasnt green for the film to make her ugly or different, it was done out of necessity for the Technicolor. It was so primitive in those days, that color didn't photograph truly and mixing the wrong colors in a scene could ruin the film during developing. Green was a safe color to film in such close proximity to the black of her dress. Filming the Witch in Munchkinland, where she was dark black and green, against all of the bright colors was a real accomplishment in the days.
On the same token, white didn't photograph correctly, so Dorothy's blouse was actually a very light pink, which read as white on film.
In black and white photography at the time, natural skin would read as splotchy, so in the Kansas scenes, the actors had to wear lots of body make up that was very orangish in hue to make the skin look natural on film.
The green Witch was only there out of necessity.
In Baum's book, she was an old crone with one eye.. no more, no less, and she melted into a puddle that looked like brown sugar..

[broadway122]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 2:31pm

I can't imagine how much pressure a production team has to go through to stage Wizard of Oz.

Ok was Gassie O. the one who wore that ugly navy blue leotard thing? Because for a bit I thought it was the brunette who looked kind of like a duck. The one who threw the other girls under the bus. But its not the brunette right? the redish hair one?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 2:34pm

Cassie O (Okenka) has reddish hair.

The brunette would be Cassie Sylva, who was in the ensemble of the hairspray film as Brenda.

[broadway122]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 2:41pm

OK thanks for that clearification. I didn't Cassis S was in Hairspray the movie.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 2:42pm

You know, I bet Wicked fangirls are going to be displeased with the portrayal of the Wicked Witch as evil and unsympathetic

. I noticed that when I did "Wizard of Oz" a few years before Wicked came out (as the Wicked Witch), I was the only one who WANTED to play the Witch. I'm doing the show again this summer, and this time I'm trying out for the Cowardly Lion because everyone I know says they want to play the Witch now.

Broadwayguy2, thank you for the info! I didn't know any of that!

[musicaltheatrefan3]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 2:49pm

I know the guy who's playing the Wizard. He's really nice. He said that this tour is going all around the US this year and that it is going to Japan, China, Thailand, and Singapore in 2010, among other places in Asia.

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 2:51pm

Emma you're alive!!! So..... how are things?

[TheCharleston]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 2:53pm

OMG SHE'S BACK!!!!

DIE, EMMA, DIE

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 2:58pm

No problem. I have been an avid Oz fan since I was three years old... I am sure that myself, or husk_charmer, could answer most questions tossed at us about it. LOL.

I would like to see it a time or two when it stops at MSG in the spring. I just hope I can get one of the good seats in that barn of a WaMu Theatre..

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 4:35pm

This tour is playing Madison Square Garden?!? That's a bit of a slap in the face. The Madison Square Garden production looked soooo much better than this.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 4:41pm

MTF3 = Not actually Emma Zaks

Calling MTF3 Emma Zaks = Not actually funny

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 4:45pm

It is too funny, Terrance.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 4:47pm

Now, see, it would be flippin' hilarious if I was Terrence Mann, given my slightly disturbing fangirling of Michael Ball and totally idiotic Little Mermaid fandom.

I guess I can't say anything in response to you except that you type terribly well for a pair of strawberries.

Updated On: 1/3/09 at 04:47 PM

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 4:48pm

Hell you can call me "Gina, Judy, & Carolee" if I can keep calling MTF3 "Emma".

[broadway122]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 4:51pm

Oh can I be called Gavin Lee???

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 4:52pm

I shall call you Gavin Lee Bear.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 4:56pm

This is going to be really confusing months from now when this thread is bumped and our avatars have changed.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 4:57pm

Especially when it turns out that I actually am Terrence Mann.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 4:59pm

In that case I really would prefer to call you Chau-Chau. Like a little dog's name...

[broadway122]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 5:06pm

I can live with Gavin Lee Bear. Is there anyway I can change my user name. Mine is so boring.

[Madcap Maisie]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 5:34pm

has anyone watched the preview on the tour site?


Glinda comes down in a VERY familiar bubble....the design is similar to something I can't quite place........

but seriously

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 5:35pm

Cats-
I fail to see how this is a "slap in the face" considering neither of them were really elligible for major awards, nor will either be really snubbed by a critic.

So, unless they hang a poster outside MSG that says "Come See The Wizard of Oz, In a Production Better Than Our 1996-1999 Production" I'm gonna say it's not a slap in the face.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 5:55pm

But it's not "our". This is an entirely different production that's not being produced by Madison Square Garden, yet playing at their theatre. That's just odd to me.

And madcap, Glinda came down in a similar bubble in the original Royal Shakespeare stage production so if anything Wicked copied that staging. Though they all seem to copy each other because I've never seen a professional production of the Wizard of Oz when Glinda didn't enter in a similar bubble to that used in Wicked and that started in the 80s.

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 6:31pm

Just so you know-

Saw this tour, and frankly thought it to be one of the worst pieces of theatre I've ever witnessed in my life. There were two redeeming factors: the music and the dog.

Cassie S has a nice voice, but is one of the worst actresses on this planet. She was terrible. The cast wasn't very good at all, the witch was abominable, and the production team decided it would be a good idea to use special effects that were cool for thirty seconds, but let them run on for five minutes. It really wasn't very good at all.

But hey, thats just me...

[TimeSquare3]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 6:37pm

How was Jason Simon. I saw him as Max in The Producers & thought he was very good.