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ADAPTING “THE WIZARD OF OZ”

September 18, 2018 ypadmin

In Adapting The Wizard of Oz: Musical Versions from Baum to MGM and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2018), editors Danielle Birkett and Dominic McHugh bring together insights from eleven experts into the varied musical forms this great American myth has taken in the past century. Includes chapters on the “Oz” film’s songs by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen. November 2018.

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A thousand a week will start Ruth Etting
Imbibing tears and fretting
That life’s the bunk, there ain’t no love!

Miss Morgan’s lachrymose ways
Pay all her bills at Cartier’s.

And tho’ she can’t control men,
The livid Libby Holman

Controls the rolls you’re dreaming of.

There’s milk and honey in every cloud,
When you get money for cryin’ out loud,
So let your lucky saint know
You’re tickled pink,
There ain’t no love.

Lyric excerpt: “There Ain’t No Love”
words by Yip Harburg, music by Vernon Duke
from The Garrick Gaieties (1930)
This sendup of the era’s torch songs and the female singers who popularized them (namely, Ruth Etting, Helen Morgan and Libby Holman) was introduced by an ensemble featuring Rosalind Russell and Imogene Coca before they became household names via movies and television.

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