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This chapter discusses several Oz productions—including “The Land of Oz,” from Shirley Temple’s Story Book Hour, and Journey Back to Oz, starring Liza Minnelli—that sought to capitalize on The Wizard of Oz once the Oz books started to come into the public domain during the television broadcast years (1956–1998). We then examine how marketing and promotion set the The Wiz on its unlikely journey from flop to hit, and conclude with an analysis of the revisionist Ozes produced at the end of this era: Walter Murch’s Return to Oz (1985), Phillip Jose Farmer’s A Barnstormer in Oz, Geoff Ryman’s Was, and Gregory Maguire’s novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. |
