Dorothy

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In Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked, Dorothy Gale arrives in Oz after the death of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz and meets Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West. Their...

literature

In L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , Dorothy’s slippers are described as silver.

theatre-musicals

The Dorothy actress in Wicked is cast to portray Dorothy Gale, the Kansas protagonist who arrives in Oz and becomes central to the show’s exploration of home and friendship. A...

theatre-arts

The role of Dorothy in the musical Wicked anchors the show’s emotional core, serving as the everywoman lens into Oz. While the story centers on Elphaba, Dorothy’s journey fr...

literature-film

The simple question of whether Dorothy’s shoes are red or silver points to a nuanced answer rooted in literary history and film adaptation. In the original 1900 book The Wonde...

Celebrity Profiles

In Gregory Maguire's The Wicked Years, the character of Dorothy is reimagined as a figure removed from the magical land of Oz, arriving instead from the real world. This evergre...

theater-relations

Dorothy in the Wicked musical is a Kansas farm girl who arrives in Oz after a cyclone carries her house away. She is not originally from Oz and seeks to return home, which drive...

evergreen

Dorothy in Landman season 2 is a character introduced to deepen the personal and professional dynamics around the titular figure, Bill Landman. As a carefully woven supporting p...