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

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..

Cassie O (Okenka) has reddish hair.

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

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!

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

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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..

MTF3 = Not actually Emma Zaks

Calling MTF3 Emma Zaks = Not actually funny

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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.

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

Oh can I be called Gavin Lee???

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

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

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

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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.

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

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