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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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The director has a basic fear of the author. After all, he has created the character and knows what he expects from them. But a director has to justify his existence and this results in hostility.

From “Songwriting a 3-Way Job” by Jerry Gaghan. Philadelphia Daily News, March 20, 1961, during the pre-Broadway Philadelphia tryout of Yip’s penultimate Broadway musical, The Happiest Girl in the World.

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