The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan, currently offers "Heroes & Villains: The Art of the Disney Costume Presented by the Walt Disney Archives." Included costumes of particular interest to Oz fans are those from Return to Oz and Oz the Great and Powerful. Follow the website link to film screenings and other […]
Susan Hilferty wowed Broadway with Wicked costume designs in 2004, winning the Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical. Something Wicked presents thirty of her exquisite and avant-garde costumes and designs—some from Wicked, some never seen before. Explore the process of costume design in “Hilferty’s Studio”—but beware of flying monkeys! See website for ticket prices as many are […]
“The Entertaining Life of Buddy Ebsen” is the new exhibition hosted by the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center (AHC) “The exhibit begins with Ebsen’s days as a song and dance man in vaudeville and in the ‘Ziegfeld Follies,’” says AHC Assistant Archivist Roger Simon, who curated the exhibition. “It then moves to his early […]
Click your heels together three times and say, ‘there’s no place like Curve this Christmas’. Join Dorothy and Toto as they are swept up from sepia-soaked Kansas and transported over the rainbow to the technicolour wonderland of Oz. On her adventure down the Yellow Brick Road, Dorothy meets new friends Scarecrow, Tinman, and Lion who […]
Inventor Nikola Tesla gets a starring role in Thin Air Theatre Company’s new original show, “The Wizard of Oz Colorado,” loosely based on L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories. The show and annual Christmas olio opened Nov. 25 and runs through Dec. 31 at Butte Theater in Cripple Creek. Price: $12-$24, free 5 and younger When: […]
Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the theatre this season, because one of the greatest tales ever told is touching down … with a brand new twist!You know the story, but you’ve never seen it like this! With its winning combination of incredible music, lively dancing, outrageous costumes, audience participation, and of course, a dash […]
Based on the second book in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, young Tip escapes an evil witch, then sets out on an adventure to the Emerald City. Along the way, he meets the Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, and some other new friends while discovering more about himself than he ever thought possible. With book and […]
Multimedia artist Max Guy’s first solo exhibition, But Tell Me, Is It a Civilized Country?, runs December 3 through February 5 at the Renaissance Society in Chicago's Hyde Park. The show explores various iterations and adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s Land of Oz. (The title references the Munchkins’ query about Dorothy’s native Kansas.) “I often […]
Lythgoe Family Panto invites you on an exciting adventure to the enchanted land of Oz in their fantastically festive and fun production. Expect a hilarious, heartwarming evening full of song, dance, and holiday merriment! The classic American tale gets a holiday makeover as Dorothy is spirited away by a blizzard on Christmas Eve and finds […]
Join the Coronado Historical Association for this special holiday edition of the Wine & Lecture Series. Bill Swank, who has been the resident Santa at Balboa Park's Spreckels Organ Pavilion since 2002, will share Christmastime stories from beloved author L. Frank Baum. Wizard of Oz author Baum loved to winter at the Hotel del Coronado. While in […]
The Mansfield Playhouse presents The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, a dramatization by Pat Cook of L. Frank Baum's novel of the same name. "This delightful tale answers once and for all how Santa Claus made the first toy, why he climbs down chimneys and, most of all, how he learned to laugh that […]
How the Boy became a Man. How the Man became a Legend. From the writer of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz comes the world premiere of Claus The Musical. Based on the beloved children’s book The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, this brand-new musical is as magical as Christmas itself. With spellbinding songs from Andy Collyer, […]