How has The Wizard of Oz become so popular on film, television, and stage? This book offers new insights into American identity through the special relationship between musicals and L. Frank Baum's children's novel. Drawing on personal experience, Ryan Bunch offers new readings of the MGM film (1939), The Wiz (1975), Wicked (2003), and other Oz musicals to reveal how the performative magic of the fairy tale musical, with its implied inclusions and exclusions, imagines an American utopia.
How has The Wizard of Oz become so popular on film, television, and stage? This book offers new insights into American identity through the special relationship between musicals and L. Frank Baum's children's novel. Drawing on personal experience, Ryan Bunch offers new readings of the MGM film (1939), The Wiz (1975), Wicked (2003), and other Oz musicals to reveal how the performative magic of the fairy tale musical, with its implied inclusions and exclusions, imagines an American utopia.
Ryan Bunch studies musical theater as well as children's music, media, literature, and performance cultures. He studied historical musicology at the University of Maryland and is completing a Ph.D. in childhood studies at Rutgers University-Camden. He is an active member of the International Wizard of Oz Club.
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About the Companion Website Acknowledgments Illustrations Introduction: The Fairy Tale, the Musical, and "America" 1. The Man Behind the Curtain: L. Frank Baum's Theatrical Fairy Tale 2. My Own Backyard: MGM's The Wizard of Oz 3. Easing Down the Road: The Soul of The Wiz 4. Wicked: The Witch's Turn 5. "And Then There Was Oz Again": Making Believe Between Oz and Home Epilogue: What Have You Learned, Dorothy? Notes Bibliography Index
About the Companion Website Acknowledgments Illustrations Introduction: The Fairy Tale, the Musical, and "America" 1. The Man Behind the Curtain: L. Frank Baum's Theatrical Fairy Tale 2. My Own Backyard: MGM's The Wizard of Oz 3. Easing Down the Road: The Soul of The Wiz 4. Wicked: The Witch's Turn 5. "And Then There Was Oz Again": Making Believe Between Oz and Home Epilogue: What Have You Learned, Dorothy? Notes Bibliography Index
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