(Publicity) photos of the original Broadway production of THE WIZ. 1975.
Everybody come out and let's commence to singing joyfully... The world of THE WIZ (1978). I can never adequately express how much I love this film.
What is one of the scariest movie scenes you know? For me, it has to be the subway peddler scene from THE WIZ (1978), one of my all-time favorite films. It’s a slow, wordless nightmare, with no payoff: the last time we see the clown puppets, they’re still nonchalantly roaming the subway, looking for prey.
When Dorothy and her friends flee up the stairs, the patterns on the floor look like pools of blood.
Poster and window card by Milton Glaser for the Broadway production of THE WIZ (1975).
RETURN TO OZ (1985) cameos, and the characters as illustrated by John R. Neill.
The coronation scene especially had quite a few nods to the original works by Baum. I love that they did that. Who’d even notice? Not me as a kid.
Images 1 and 2 show The Patchwork Girl, 3 and 4 the Frogman. Polychrome, daughter of the Rainbow, is in images 5 and 6.
In image 7 we see, from left to right: the Shaggy Man (also image 9); a character I can’t identify; Patchwork Girl; King Rinkitink; Polychrome (behind Rinkitink); and the Bumpy Man (also in image 8). And there are Munchkins and some Oz main characters of course. Aside from the Tin Woodman, are there notable cameos in the last image?
