Word: wizard
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AGAINST ALL ODDS, and for no discernible reason, there's a spectacularly good Wizard of Oz at Dunster House. It's obviously a labor of love on the part of a lot of people; more theatrical ingenuity and musical panache than most of this year's desperately gauzy Broadway revivals. Everyone knew from the start that The Wizard of Oz couldn't be put back on the stage in toto, so they didn't try to out-Hollywood Hollywood in the cloying way that's made so many recent Harvard musicals hopelessly wan and disappointing...
...Wizard of Oz. Words fail me. If you know the right ones, on the other hand, you can trade them in for a couple of ruby slippers. Under what guise did Ozma, the legitimate ruler whose place the Wizard took, pass the majority of her childhood? And a pun referring to what conveyance so offended even the long-suffering Jack Pumpkinhead that he momentarily stopped smiling? This weekend and next, 8 p.m. at Dunster House (also 11 on Saturday...
...Mound Wizard...
...sign soliciting actors for a musical production of The Wizard of Oz at Dunster House is the final straw: the Harvard theatrical community has gone preternaturally escapist this year. With the exception of a planned Adams House production of Medea--recently scrapped because of lack of interest--and a Winthrop House production of The Plain Dealer, the other House selections, Leverett's Applause and Kirkland's Hay Fever, are marked by unusual frivolity. Add to these plays the usual Hasty Pudding show (this year reincarnated as Keep Your Pantheon) and the semiannual Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and we have what...
...last time that The Wizard of Oz made a hit at Harvard was in October of 1939 when the movie version played for the first time at the University Theatre (now the Harvard Square). The Crimson movie reviewer took it quite seriously and decided that in spite of "a strong aroma of Walt Disney," it was "a good show...