Adapting The Wizard of Oz: Musical Versions from Baum to MGM and Beyond
- Editor: Birkett, Danielle
- Editor: McHugh, Dominic
The book as a whole is readable and useful to anyone interest in Oz, the discussed production, or theatre history more broadly —
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Contents
- Introduction: Rainbow Reflections: The Wizard of Oz as a Musical
- Danielle Birkett and Dominic McHugh
- Chapter 1: Starring Montgomery and Stone!: The Wizard of Oz Musical Extravaganza (1902) and the Birth of a Brand
- Jonas Westover
- Chapter 2: The Road to Oz: From Book to Movie Musical
- Benjamin Sears
- Chapter 3: Arlen and Harburg and More, Oh My!: The Cumulative Creation of the Oz Songs
- Laura Lynn Broadhurst
- Chapter 4: Sounds Must Stir the Fantasy: Underscore as Special Effect in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Nathan Platte
- Chapter 5: Dancing through Oz: Choreographic context in The Wizard of Oz
- Claudia Funder
- Chapter 6: The Merry Old Land of Oz?: MGM's Concerns and the Shifting Reception History
- Danielle Birkett
- Chapter 7: Friends of Dorothy: Queerness in and Beyond the Film
- Hannah Robbins
- Chapter 8: We're Not in Kansas Any More: Three Stage Adaptations of the MGM Film
- Dominic McHugh
- Chapter 9: Ease on Down the Road: Black Routes and the Soul of The Wiz
- Ryan Bunch
- Chapter 10: The Wizard of Oz and Wicked: Resonances, Legal Issues, and the Appropriation of a Classic
- Paul Laird
- Chapter 11: Beyond the Rainbow: Afterlives of the Songs from The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Walter Frisch
- Appendix 1: All Things Oz
- Bibliography
- Index