Rainbow Road to Oz

Rainbow Road to Oz was a proposed, but never finished, Walt Disney Studios live-action film about characters in the Land of Oz. Inspired by L. Frank Baum's Oz books, the film was to have starred some of the Mouseketeers, including Darlene Gillespie as Dorothy and Annette Funicello as Ozma, as well as Bobby Burgess as the Scarecrow, Tommy Kirk as the villainous son of the Wicked Witch of the West, and Kevin Corcoran.^[1]

Preview segments from the film aired on September 11, 1957 on Disneyland's fourth anniversary show.^[2] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz had been shown on CBS Television for the first time on November 3, 1956.

Recordings of several of the unused songs from the proposed film were later incorporated into Disneyland LPs in the 1960s. The Canadian release live concert CD, "Songs in the Key of Oz" presents several songs from Rainbow Road to Oz, among many other Oz-related numbers, performed by Canadian musical theatre performers Joe Cascone and David Haines.

Theories on why the film was abandoned include Disney's failure to develop a satisfactory script, the popularity of the MGM film on television which represented potential insurmountable comparisons. Disney ultimately replaced this film project with a new adaptation of Babes in Toyland.

References

↑ "Movie Producers Crashing Broadway", The Washington Post and Times-Herald (September 3, 1957), page B-8
↑ Disneyland segment at YouTube

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Canonical books

L. Frank Baum	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) Ozma of Oz (1907) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908) The Road to Oz (1909) The Emerald City of Oz (1910) The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) The Scarecrow of Oz (1915) Rinkitink in Oz (1916) The Lost Princess of Oz (1917) The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918) The Magic of Oz (1919) Glinda of Oz (1920)

Ruth Plumly Thompson	The Royal Book of Oz (1921) Kabumpo in Oz (1922) The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923) Grampa in Oz (1924) The Lost King of Oz (1925) The Hungry Tiger of Oz (1926) The Gnome King of Oz (1927) The Giant Horse of Oz (1928) Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929) The Yellow Knight of Oz (1930) Pirates in Oz (1931) The Purple Prince of Oz (1932) Ojo in Oz (1933) Speedy in Oz (1934) The Wishing Horse of Oz (1935) Captain Salt in Oz (1936) Handy Mandy in Oz (1937) The Silver Princess in Oz (1938) Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (1939)

Others	The Wonder City of Oz (1940) The Scalawagons of Oz (1941) Lucky Bucky in Oz (1942) The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946) The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949) The Hidden Valley of Oz (1951) Merry Go Round in Oz (1963) Yankee in Oz (1972) The Enchanted Island of Oz (1976) The Forbidden Fountain of Oz (1980) The Ozmapolitan of Oz (1986) The Wicked Witch of Oz (1993) The Giant Garden of Oz (1993) The Runaway in Oz (1995) The Rundelstone of Oz (2000) The Emerald Wand of Oz (2005) Trouble Under Oz (2006)

Alternate	Dorothy of Oz (1989)

Locations
and elements

Land of Oz
Deadly Desert
Nonestica
- Forest of Burzee
- Land of Ev
- Merryland
- Mo
- Ix
- Nome Kingdom
- Noland
Ruby slippers
Silver Shoes
Apocrypha
The Oz Film Manufacturing Company

Characters

Other writers

Authors	John R. Neill Jack Snow Rachel Cosgrove Payes Eloise Jarvis McGraw Dick Martin Alexander Volkov Gregory Maguire Sherwood Smith Roger S. Baum

Illustrators	William Wallace Denslow Frank Kramer Dirk Gringhuis Dick Martin Eric Shanower William Stout

Adaptations and other derivative works

Films	The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910) The Land of Oz (1910) John Dough and the Cherub (1910) The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) The Wizard of Oz (1925) The Wizard of Oz (1933) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Return to Oz (1964) The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969) Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde (1971) Journey Back to Oz (1974) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1975) The Wiz (1978) The Wizard of Oz (1982) Return to Oz (1985) Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz (1987) The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (1990) Lion of Oz (2000) The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011) Dorothy and the Witches of Oz (2011) After the Wizard (2011) Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014) Ozland (2014) Guardians of Oz (2015) Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz (2016)

Stage	The Wizard of Oz (1902) The Woggle-Bug (1905) The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (1913) The Wizard of Oz (1942) The Wiz (1974) The Marvelous Land of Oz (1981) The Wizard of Oz (1987) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2000) The Wizard of Oz (2011) The Woodsman (2012)

Television	Tales of the Wizard of Oz (1961) Off to See the Wizard (1967) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986) The Wizard of Oz (1990) The Oz Kids (1996) Lost in Oz (2002) Once Upon a Time (since 2011) The Wiz Live! (2015) Emerald City (beginning TBA)

Comics	Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1904–05) Adventures in Oz (1986–92) The Enchanted Apples of Oz (1986) Oz Squad (1991) Lost Girls (1991–92) Oz (1994) Dorothy of Oz (2006) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2009)

Video games	The Wizard of Oz (1993) The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road (2008) Emerald City Confidential (2009)

Parodies	The Wozard of Iz Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's Wizard of Odd

Reimagining	The Wizard of Mars (1965) Hunter (1973) Zardoz (1974) Oz (1976) The Number of the Beast (1980) A Barnstormer in Oz (1982) The Wizard of A.I.D.S. (1987) The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz (1990) Twister (1994) The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997) Tin Man (2007) Dorothy Must Die (2014) The Wicked Will Rise (2015)

The Wicked Years	Wicked Son of a Witch A Lion Among Men Out of Oz Wicked (musical) Characters

Others	Rainbow Road to Oz MÄR The Wizard of Oz (pinball) The Wizard of Oz (arcade game)

Related	The International Wizard of Oz Club The Baum Bugle

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