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...better than the first. Although problems with singing and balance continue throughout the show, the actors are much more enthusiastic and, with the help of several exciting songs, move the plot convincingly along. After several misadventures with the Wicked Witch Evillene (Liz Vladeck), Addaperle's more refined sister Glinda (Tracy Erickson) arrives and, in a delightful scene and song, brings the musical to its happy ending...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'The Wiz' Struggles Down the Road in Leverett Old Library | 5/2/1996 | See Source »

...next thing he knows, he has landed, Dorothy-like, in an entirely different world. Somehow Daniel's boat has washed up onto a vast plain of parched earth, with not a drop of water in sight. It's Patrick Swayze as Pecos Bill, and not Glinda the Good Witch, who arrives in a cyclone, just in time to rescue Daniel from two comically imbecilic vagrants poised to kill Daniel for his gold fillings...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Disney Stands Tall with `Tales' | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

...ballads that Ross has to sing, on the other hand, have dull lines like "If you believe, within your heart you'll know/ That no one can change the path that you must go." Poor Lena Home, as Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, has to suck this same lyrical lemon when, wearing a gruesome blue good-fairy gown, she floats in a starry, process-shot sky. A huge budget corrupts hugely. By this time the viewer has realized that he can't win, he can't break even, and he must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nowhere Over the Rainbow | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...Clifton Lewis playing off each other like pros. Dennis Crowley mades an equisitely tormented Lord Chancellor, Susan W . Van Colt and Douglas Morgan as the straight leads have a beautiful pair of voices, and Sallyu Stunkel plays the Queen of the fairies in a style pleasantly reminiscent of Glinda, the Good Witch in The W izard...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: THE STAGE | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

Army Way. In Tokyo, U.S. Army Sergeant Jack Lovett, having named his first six children Linda Fay, Larry Gay, Garry Ray, Glinda Kay, Brinda May and Winda Gay, ran out of ideas for his expected seventh, advertised in Stars and Stripes for a name to fit the rhyme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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