Loosely based on the original 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" written ... in the book; Elphaba uses a bouquet of poppies to put her classmates to sleep and rescue a lion cub who will ...

This fall marked the centennial of "The Wonderful Wizard ... book. As a child, I loved Oz's endless cavalcade of strange creatures and, especially, John R. Neil's trippy art nouveau illustrations ...

There are the five Gregory Maguire books that launched the "Wicked" phenomenon: "Wicked" (1995), "Son of a Witch" (2005), "A Lion Among Men ... 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz," which is likely ...

However, the unexpected inspiration came from the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz." Anderson had a photo of the film's main characters, Dorothy, Tin Man, Scarecrow and the Lion in his workshop.

The Lion (Jason Priestley), who was once part of the Omaha Circus, comes to Oz with the Wizard and starts on an ... Based upon the book by Roger S. Baum (great-grandson of L.

A hundred years ago, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ... the Lion has courage enough, but until the Wizard bestows external evidences (in the movie more wittily than in the book) they feel ...

The comic actor famously played the Cowardly Lion in 1939’s "The Wizard of Oz." The Technicolor classic, which featured Judy Garland, proved to be risky business for the veteran vaudevillian ...