[ SECRET POST #3258 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3258 ⌋

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Comments

[ozaline]

As a huge fan of Oz I have to say I think this might be my favourite adaptation (at least as far as English Language ones that are available on video), the music was as good as MGM over-all, and in many ways felt truer to the novel. I have some friends who are disappointed that there are songs cut from the Broadway score (or replaced as in "I was born the day before yesterday," with "you can't win").

So You're not alone in thinking this has a quality that a lot of other adaptations lack.

I don't hate most of the other adaptations though, and I do like MGM's for what it is.

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a non-English adaptation you enjoy?

[ozaline]

A few yeah, there's a really good Russian cartoon that combines elements of Volkov's magic land with an adaptation of the first two Baum books, and I have seen really good Japanese, and Israeli stage adaptations. There's also a really outlandish Polish Oz cartoon series.

I really like when people look at the rest of the books, but I've found a lot of non American adaptations are willing to more readily break the MGM mold (though there's still MGM influence to be found). I think what I like about the Wiz is the same thing I like about those foreign adaptations, it isn't too much in MGM's shadow (there's bits there like the farmhands at the start of the production, but overall it does it's own thing).