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unusual facts about The Wizard



Apollo Victoria Theatre

The Broadway musical Wicked received its London première at the venue on 27 September 2006 with a cast featuring Idina Menzel as Elphaba, Helen Dallimore as Glinda, Nigel Planer as The Wizard, Adam Garcia as Fiyero and Miriam Margolyes as Madame Morrible.

Greenmachine

They played The Wizard's Convention in 2005 and are featured on the DVD along with fellow Japanese artists Boris, Church of Misery and Eternal Elysium.

King Kong Encounter

The Kong sequence was also featured in the film The Wizard starring Fred Savage and Christian Slater.

Michael Berk

He wrote the earlier scripts of the series Baywatch, but is best known as the creator, co-producer, and writer of the television series The Wizard.


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Action Synthese

The studio is currently working on a movie based on the popular novel The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and a sequel to the feature film The Magic Roundabout.

Adventures of Captain Marvel

Nigel De Brulier as Shazam, the wizard who gives Billy the power to become Captain Marvel.

Avery County, North Carolina

Oz Days at the former Land of Oz theme park on Beech Mountain in the fall also attracts visitors who love the legacy of the famous Judy Garland movie "The Wizard of Oz" based on Frank Baum's famous book.

Barbara Angell

On stage she starred again for the Tivoli in Lilac Time with John Larsen and in The Wizard of Oz as Glinda the Good Witch opposite Reg Livermore's Wicked Witch.

Bobbs-Merrill Company

In 1949, Bobbs-Merrill commissioned artist Evelyn Copelman to illustrate a new edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, reprinted as The Wizard of Oz and The New Wizard of Oz.

Chumak

Their trade is mentioned in the literal as well as artistic works of Taras Shevchenko, the Crimean-Armenian Ivan Aivazovsky, the motion movie Moskal, the Wizard (1995), song of Taras Petrynenko Ukraina.

Clark A. Peterson

Clark Peterson and his old friend Bill Webb formed Necromancer Games in the spring of 2000 to publish role-playing materials using the impending d20 license; on August 10, 2000, the same day Wizards of the Coast was to release the new Player's Handbook at GenCon 33, Peterson and Webb published a free PDF adventure called The Wizard's Amulet just a few minutes after midnight that same day.

Coventry Blue Coat Church of England School

The school's latest head of drama, Matthew Connor-Hemming, has directed five productions, Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle and four musicals, Oliver!, Calamity Jane, Les Misérables, and most recently, The Wizard of Oz.

Dona Massin

In Dona's later years, she and daughter Jodie would visit the Wizard of Oz Festivals in Chesterton, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Chicago.

Dorothy of Oz

Dorothy Gale, protagonist of the Oz series of books and principal character in adaptations, notably the classic film The Wizard of Oz

Dr. Loveless

Loveless was introduced in the 1965 episode "The Night the Wizard Shook The Earth," which was the show's third televised episode (although it was produced sixth).

Ed Kemmer

In "The Wizard" he is Sheriff Mike Collins; in "The Ghost", with fellow guest-star Tommy Rettig, he is deputy sheriff Joe Wilkes.

Gary Weiss

Weiss authored a cover story in the April 1, 1996 edition, titled "Fall of the Wizard," that was critical of Julian Robertson's performance and behavior as manager of hedge fund Tiger Management.

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows

In this game you can play as the four original heroes, the wizard, the elf, the warrior, and the Valkyrie, each wielding many combos and special attacks that can be purchased at the end of each world removing the dull look of a single attack and adding a nice level detail.

Grey Star the Wizard

Grey Star the Wizard is the first book in the World of Lone Wolf book series created by Joe Dever and written by Ian Page.

Harry Potter Alliance

With the help of partners, the Wizard Rock community, Maureen Johnson, John and Hank Green, the HPA auctioned over 100 items including the Harry Potter books and a thank you card donated by J. K. Rowling.

Joseph M. Finotti

His last literary effort, which he did not live to see published, entitled "The Mystery of the Wizard Clip" (Baltimore, 1879), is a story of preternatural occurrences at Smithfield, West Virginia, involving Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin.

Landvættir

Swimming westwards around the northern coast, the wizard saw that all the hillsides and hollows were full of landvættir, "some large and some small." He swam up Vopnafjörður, intending to go ashore, but a great dragon came flying down the valley toward him, followed by many snakes, insects, and lizards, all spitting poison at him.

Laurence Wright

Of these are included the attractions: "The Wizard of Change" and "Our American Crossroads." The attraction, "The Wizard of Change," presented to the general public at both the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and the California Science Center, was accompanied by a soundscape composed by Wright.

Marshall Brodien

Marshall Brodien, known for his role as Wizzo the Wizard, played a wizard clown that performed on WGN-TV's Bozo's Circus and The Bozo Show from 1968-1994.

Mary MacPherran

However, this stay in The Vault was as permanent as earlier ones – a conspiracy between Loki and the Wizard saw Titania free once more, in Loki's Acts of Vengeance plan.

My Way Home

From the point where the yellow line on the hospital floor is visualized as a yellow brick road, the rest of the episode is shot in bright, highly saturated colors, similar to the Technicolor in which The Wizard of Oz was filmed (with the Kansas scenes shot in black and white).

R. T. Alderman Junior High

In the 2009-2010 year, the production was "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", in 2010-2011 "Little Shop of Horrors", in 2011-2012 "Grease and in 2012-2013 The Wizard Of OZ (musical).

Scholomance

In the book Lord of Middle Air by Michael Scott Rohan, the wizard Michael Scot reveals that he dared to train at the Scholomance on two occasions, as there was so much knowledge it could not all be learnt in one night.

Shenfield High School

In recent years, Shenfield has performed Joseph, Bugsy Malone, Back to The 80's, The Music Man, The Wizard of Oz, The Four Seasons Of Wounded Knee, High School Musical and We Will Rock You.

Showboat World

At least one scene was influenced by the Royal Nonesuch acting troupe episode in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while Showboat World itself has strongly influenced The Wizard of Karres (2004) by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer.

The Making of The Wizard of Oz

The Making of the Wizard Of Oz, written by film historian Aljean Harmetz, is a book about the production of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

While directing "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", Mark Kirkland visited the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey to receive inspiration for several scenes in the episode that take place in this museum.

The Wizard of Karres

The Wizard of Karres is a novel by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer that was published by Baen Books in 2004, as a sequel to The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz.

They shall not pass

In J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, the wizard Gandalf declares repeatedly, "You cannot pass!" when he blocks the pursuing demon called a Balrog.

William II de Soules

Scottish Borders folklore maintains that a Soulis was involved with the Black Arts being schooled with Michael Scot, The Wizard.

Winged monkeys

At this remark, the Asgardian hero Thor is confused, not knowing what a monkey is (and not having read or seen The Wizard of Oz) whilst Captain America excitedly announces that he understood the reference, having come from a source from before when he was frozen during World War II.

Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla

The Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (ISBN 0806519606) is a 1998 biography book by Marc Seifer detailing the life of Nikola Tesla.