The Wizard of Oz (1987 musical) The Wizard of Oz (1987 musical) The Wizard of Oz is a musical with a book by John Kane, music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It has additional background music by Herbert Stothart. It is based on the novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum and the 1939 film version written by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. Successful musicals based on the Baum novel were created in 1902 (for Broadway) and 1945 (for St. Louis Municipal Opera), the latter of which, using songs from the popular 1939 film, is still frequently
The Steam Engines of Oz The Steam Engines of Oz The Steam Engines of Oz is a 2018 Canadian animated film directed and written by Sean Patrick O'Reilly. The screenplay is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Erik Hendrix. It features William Shatner, Ron Perlman, Julianne Hough, Ashleigh Ball, and Scott McNeil. Arcana Studios announced that they will be producing a "steampunked re-imagining" of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It is a co-production animated feature with 3Doubles Productions and Arcana Studio. A hundred years after the events that occurred in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and after the defeat of the