Dorothy Gale relative. (It is also possible that "Aunt" and "Uncle" are affectionate terms of a foster family and that Dorothy is not related to either of them, although Zeb in "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" claims to be Dorothy's second cousin, related through Aunt Em. Little mention is made of what happened to Dorothy's birth parents, other than a passing reference to her mother being dead.) Along with her small black dog, Toto, Dorothy is swept away by a tornado to the Land of Oz and, much like Alice of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", they enter an alternative world filled
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) Oz," a television film for ABC, starring Ashanti as Dorothy, Jeffrey Tambor as the Wizard, David Alan Grier as Uncle Henry, and Queen Latifah as Aunt Em. Kermit the Frog portrayed the Scarecrow, Gonzo portrayed the Tin Thing (Tin Man), Fozzie Bear portrayed the Lion and Miss Piggy portrayed all the Witches of the West, East, North and South. In 2007, The Sci-Fi Channel released the three-part miniseries "Tin Man", a science fiction continuation starring Zooey Deschanel as DG. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote a stage musical of the same name, which opened in 2011 at the West