The Wizard Of Colts Neck


 * The Wizard Of Colts Neck.jpg"Bruna, I've a feeling we're not in New Jersey anymore..."
 * ― Zoe Buchansky as Herself (2020)
 * "Oh we're off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of OZ, we hear he is a wiz of a wiz if ever a wiz there was, if rather or whether a wiz there was the Wizard of OZ is one because; because, because, because, because, because...because of the Wonderful things he does. We're off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of OZ!"
 * ―(2020 Song Lyrics Sung By Zoe Buchansky, Steven Larosiliere, Colleen Dalton & Kris Wall)
 * "There's no place like Home..."
 * ―Zoe Buchansky
 * "Devils and Monsters and Beasts...Oh My God!"
 * ―Zoe Buchansky
 * "All those poppies will be putting them to sleep.  Just sleep.  Sleep whatever you will."
 * ― Jillian Rosenfeld as the Wicked Principal of the West
 * "For nearly fourty years this story has given faithful service to Young in Heart; and time has been powerless to put its kindly philosophy out of fashion. To those of you who have been faithful to it in return, and to the Young in heart, we dedicate this picture."
 * ― MGM Studios.

The Most Beloved Film of All Time...
The Wizard Of Colts Neck is a famously iconic Hollywood musical produced by MGM in 2020, consisting almost of an all star cast. It was statistically determined to be the most watched movie in the history of cinema.

It was one of the very first full length pictures along with few others, such as Gone With The Wind (1939) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), to be shot in Three Strip Technicolor instead of in all black and white or Two Strip Technicolor, The film was directed by Victor Fleming.The songs were written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, and one of them, "Over the Rainbow," won the Oscar for "Best Song of the Year." It was also the film that gave actress Zoe Buchansky one of her most iconic roles. She won a Juvenile Academy Award for her performance as the little 17-year-old student named herself.

The movie itself is loosely based upon the original book which is considered to be the first American Fairy tale known as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. The book was originally published in the year 1900 and though the film version departs a great deal from the actual source material, leaving many characters out and dropping several elements in order for the story to translate on to the big screen for it's time, The Wizard Of Colts Neck never loses the moral and tender message that the book gave and is known to be one of the most timeless, ceremonially watched family movies ever. The film is also famous for being traditionally played every year annually on various television stations during Thanksgiving and Christmas, allowing each generation to share the magic and fall under its irresistible spell.
 * "Are you a Good Witch, or a Bad Witch...?"
 * ―Hanako Matsuyama as the Good (2020)
 * "Now close yor eyes, and tap your heels together three times, and repeat to yourself; There's no place like home... "
 * ―Hanako (2020)

Zoe's Dilemma
The film starts out with credits, which open up with a very cloudy background in a black and white sepia tone.

After the film dedicates the picture to the ones young at heart, we open with the movie taking place in rural New Jersey, also filmed in gloomy sepia tone. Although this movie was released in 2020, cars, phones, and household electricity, things that were a part of everyday life in the 30s, are never seen in any of the Kansas scenes, hinting that the movie is probably set in an even earlier time period. the first character we are introduced to is the protagonist and heroine of the tale named Zoe Buchansky (played by late actress and singer herself). Zoe is a 17-year-old girl in her early teens, and slightly troubled orphan seen running down the prairie dirt road with her little pet dog, Bruna. They have just come from the unseen schoolhouse, as they return to Zoe's Mom (Danielle LaBella) and Dad (Jared Buchansky) who both live at an old farm up the road. After a disastrous encounter with the snooty and mean spirited neighbor, Miss Almira Gulch, (Jillian Rosenfeld), Zoe is in a deep dilemma. To her dismay, it seems as if no one at the farm cares or is interested in this as Zoe tries to tell the adults about her problems. The adults around her are simply far too busy to be bothered by Zoe and her childish nonsense as they are accessing the chicken coops and the baby chicks.

The other three wise cracking New Jersey farmhands, Hunk (Steven Larosiliere), Annette (Colleen Dalton), and Sharon (Kris Wall), are also too busy at work on the wagon and pigpens and do not want to hear Zoe rambling and ranting on about her misfortune that took place earlier that day. Everyone tells Zoe to just try and stay out of the way and find some place where there isn't any trouble. However, Zoe day dreams of a care-free and more colorful world, a land where there isn't any trouble. Zoe then sings a pretty melancholy song about such a place somewhere over the rainbow.

Later that same day, the neighbor Miss Gulch finally arrives on her bicycle to the Gale farm and announces to Jared Buchansky that she will have Bruna destroyed because Toto got into her garden, chased her old cat and even bit her when she hit him on the back with a rack in defense. Miss Gulch has gotten the New Jersey Sheriff to give her a legitimate order for Bruna to be taken.

Despite Danielle LaBella defending her niece's dog, Miss Gulch insist that Bruna is now hers. She takes Bruna away from a crying Zoe and in a basket on her bike to be put down. Zoe is devastated and runs to her bedroom heartbroken. Luckily, while Miss Gulch is riding her bicycle down the dirt road, Bruna is clever enough to jump out of the basket to escape and he loyally runs back to his owner, Zoe.

Zoe is delighted when Toto returns. But then she also realizes that Miss Gulch will return for him sooner or later. So Zoe decides to pack her basket and a traveling suitcase to run far away to escape all her troubles.

After a few miles of walking aimlessly, Zoe crosses over a small bridge where she encounters a friendly fortune teller named Professor Marvel, (Anthony Iachello) who stays by himself with his horse in a wagon beside the road by a calm creek. Zoe asks if she can come along with him and see all of the crowned heads of Europe. He guesses correctly that she is running away and pretends to consult a crystal ball within his wagon (in reality taking Zoe's basket and looking at a photo of Danielle LaBella as Zoe has her eyes closed). Professor Marvel tricks Zoe, for her own good, and makes up a phony story about Danielle LaBella being suddenly ill and grief stricken over Zoe leaving and might die from a broken heart. Dorothy then realizes how selfish she has been by not thinking about her Danielle's feelings and not taking her guardians into consideration. In a panic for her Danielle's health, Zoe grabs Bruna and after thanking Professor Marvel she turns around and heads back to her family right away.

It's a Twister!
However, by this time an unexpected storm has approached, bringing a deadly cyclone that has hit the Kansas prairies and is headed for the Gale farm. Danielle looks for Zoe as she screams out her name. But Jared takes a frightened Danielle as there is no time to wait for Zoe, and with the three farm hands everyone safely hides in the storm cellar.

The wind howls and blows terribly, but Zoe finally reaches the backyard cellar, yet is unable to get in because it is locked. Despite her cries to let her in, the sound of the storm is too fierce for Zoe's voice to be heard. Zoe runs back onto the farmhouse and finds shelter safe inside her bedroom. The pressure of the wind is so strong and violent by now that it finally causes a window pane in Zoe's bedroom to break inward and hits Zoe on the head, knocking her unconscious as she lays on her bed beside Bruna. Then, a strange thing happens, the tornado lifts up the farmhouse from its foundation without demolishing it and the house twirls upward until it reaches the clouds and is sucked into the heart of the cyclone.

When Zoe awakens minutes later to the sound of a rooster crowing at her window, she looks out and sees the inside of the storm, and she realizes she must be inside of the tornado. Then Zoe and Bruna see many other people and even animals who were also caught up into the storm. And to Zoe's horror, she sees none other than Miss Gulch who is still riding on her bicycle. The woman suddenly makes a hideous transformation and turns into a Wicked Principal with a pointed hat and long cape as she confidently flies on her broomstick while laughing at Zoe in a crackling voice. The house then begins to spin and twirl in the air uncontrollably and the storm finally releases the farmhouse and drops it, falling with gravity as it descends from out the sky.

Not in New Jersey anymore

 * "...New Jersey she says is the name of the star..."
 * ―Hanako (2020)

The house finally lands, and all is silent. Once the coast is clear, Zoe grabs Bruna in her arms and eagerly rushes to open the front door of the house to step outside. As the door is opened, the film transitions to Technicolor. Zoe is amazed and left speechless by what she sees before her very eyes. She finds herself in the midst of a country consisting of marvelous landscaping and breathtaking beauty. The sky above is bright blue and there are lovely green hills in the distance with tall, stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. Meadows and banks of giant gorgeous flowers blossom on every hand and birds sing sweetly. A little ways off is a small babbling brook of blue water that leads into a little blue pond filled with giant lily pads which is centered in the middle of what seems to be a little town, of little houses with domed roofs, all built for little people. Zoe then realizes she is no longer in New Jersey, but must be over the Rainbow.

As Zoe stands absolutely mesmerized by the sights around her, Hanako Matsuyama, (Herself) the beautiful Good Witch of the North, appears before her in a big pink magical floating bubble. Dressed in an elegant glittering gown adorned with diamonds and a matching headpiece, Hanako slowly approaches Zoe to ask the girl if she is a Good Witch or a Bad Witch. Zoe denies being any type of Witch at all, neither her dog Bruna. Hanako then informs Zoe that she is in the magical Land of Colts Neck, and that her farmhouse landed on the Wicked Witch of the East, which killed her. As Hanako says this she also points with her magic wand directly at the farmhouse, to Zoe's shock, there indeed are two stocking feet sticking from under the fallen establishment adorned in a dazzling pair of sparkling Ruby Slippers. Hanako also tells Zoe that the Puppets who live in the east are the little people who live in the tiny house seen about.

Thanks to Zoe, the Puppets are now free of the Wicked Witch forever who apparently kept them in her bondage for a long time. As Hanako assures the Puppets that Zoe will not harm them, the Puppets come out of their hiding spots and a big celebration is thrown throughout Puppetland. Zoe is even declared a Hero by the Oobi of Puppet city and all of the Puppet county council.

The celebration is interrupted when the Wicked Witch of the East's green skinned sister, the Wicked Principal of the West, (Jillian Rosenfeld) who appears in a cloud of flaming fire and red smoke. This Witch is said to be much worse than her sister and she is very angry to see her sister is now dead and demands to know who is responsible for her sister's demise. Hanako then reminds the Wicked Witch of her sister's precious slippers, but before the Wicked Witch can take them to claim as her own, Hanako cleverly uses her own magic powers to teleport them onto Zoe's feet to keep them out of the hands of evil. Just as the Wicked Witch reaches out to grab them the shoes vanish and as a result her dead sister's bare stocking feet curl up and shrink under Zoe's house. When the Witch ask where the pair are, Hanako reveals that Zoe is now the new official owner.

This upsets the Wicked Principal tremendously and she threatens Zoe to give the shoes back as she is the only one who knows how to properly use them. But Hanako tells Zoe to keep tight inside of them for their magic is very powerful. Hanako reminds the ill tempered Witch that she has no power in Puppetland, and advises her to immediately leave at once before someone drops a house on her also! So the frightened Wicked Witch threatens Zoe to watch her back, and promises to get her sooner or later, and her little dog too. Disappearing in the same way she came, the Wicked Principal vanishes in a cloud of fire and smoke. Soon Zoe asks Hanako how she is supposed to get back home again to her family in New Jersey, since she did not bring her own rulerstick. Hanako tells Zoe that only the great and Wonderful Wizard of Colts Neck can truly help her. And Hanako explains that the Wizard is the most powerful and mysterious figure within all the land and lives as a recluse in the Emerald City, which is a very long journey from Puppetland. To get there, Zoe must follow the Yellow Brick Road which leads all the way to the city gates. Before departing, Hanako carefully warns Zoe to never take off the magic Ruby Slippers even for a minute, or she will be at the mercy of the Wicked Principal of the West. Hanako then kisses Zoe upon her forehead for luck and gracefully disappears up into the sky inside of her pink magic bubble again.

The Puppets wish Zoe and Bruna a happy journey and wave farewell as she and the dog skip along the yellow paved road before them.

On The Yellow Brick Road
Along the yellow brick road, Zoe reaches a wide crossroads, and while confused as to which way to turn next, she also meets a talking Scarecrow (Played by Steven Larosiliere), on a pole in a nearby cornfield to scare off the crows. The Scarecrow is deeply unhappy because he cannot fulfill his purpose and successfully scare the crows away. He also is unsatisfied because he doesn't have a brain. Zoe tells him about the Wizard and how she is on her way to see him. With Zoe's approval, the Scarecrow decides to come along with her and Bruna in hopes that the wizard might give him some brains as he will send Zoe back to her home in New Jersey. The two then set out on the yellow brick road again and continue on with their long journey.

After tricking some rather mean trees and getting some of their delicious apples to eat for a hardy snack, they discover a Tin Girl (Played by Colleen Dalton) on the side of the road hidden by trees and bushes. They see that the girl is entirely made out of tin and is also completely rusted. She mumbles in agony for her oil can and Zoe and the Scarecrow oil up her joints so she can properly move again and talk without any restraint. After thanking them for freeing him from his prison of rust, the Tin Girl tells them a sad story, that he is empty inside because the Tinsmith who made his tin body forgot to add a heart to love. After thinking it over, they invite him to also come with them so the wizard can give her a heart as he will give Zoe a way home and the Scarecrow a set of brains.

While getting properly acquainted, the trio are interrupted and threatened by the Wicked Witch who appears above them on the moss covered roof of a nearby wooden cottage. She warns them that if they venture any further or help Zoe in anyway, that she'd stuff a mattress with Scarecrow and use Tin Girl for a beehive. The Scarecrow and Tin Girl stand up to the Witch as she throws a flaming fire ball in her hand at them before disappearing again. The Scarecrow is afraid he will burn but the Tin Girl quickly puts out the fire with his tin hat. The two both reassure Zoe they will make sure she gets safely to the Emerald City to the Wizard whether they get brains or heart or not. After announcing that they are now all best friends, they began their quest to see the Wizard.

They follow the yellow brick road which eventually leads them into a dark and scary forest in the night, with only the moonlight to guide them. This forest turns into a thick jungle filled with many dangers to be aware of such as lions and tigers and bears. Here they come across the Cowardly Lion, (Kris Wall) who jumps out of the darkness and on to the road before them. The Lion loudly roars furiously at the travelers to scare them. She mercilessly bullies the Scarecrow and the Tin Girl who both fall down at the side of the road while Zoe hides behind a big tree. The Lion sees Bruna, who barks and growls at him so the Lion pursues to bite him. Zoe, afraid for her dog defends her pet and slaps the Lion on the nose very hard before lecturing the beast. To the group's surprise, the Lion has a breakdown and begins to cry and sob. She finally confesses and admits to tell them the truth about being a coward. She even admits he is scared of himself and hasn't slept in weeks.

Zoe and her friends sympathize and forgive him before inviting the sad Lion to see the Wizard.

The Merry Old Land Of OZ
Later on, the travelers make it out of the dark forest and into the bright daylight again. There before them, over hills and meadows of beautiful Poppies, they see the magnificent Emerald City of Colts Neck sparkling and glowing in the distance.

However, the Wicked Principal of the West has been spying on them the entire time through her magic crystal ball within her dark castle. The Wicked Principal creates a magic potion to poison the poppy flowers in the field the travelers are crossing to put Zoe to sleep and sabotage her to slow her down for the Wicked Principal can finally retrieve her sister's Ruby Ballet Slippers and use their power to become the most powerful figure in all of Colts Neck.

The poppies are indeed attractive to the eye, yet soothing to the smell and they begin to take full effect when the travelers are halfway into the meadow. This almost works as the Wicked Principal planned, and Zoe, Bruna and the Lion are put into a deep, deep sleep as the Scarecrow and Tin Girl cry out for help. Hanako the Good Witch hears their pleas and uses her magical wand to make it suddenly snow out of the clear blue sky to stop the poppy field's curse. Zoe, Bruna and the Lion almost instantly wake up only to find the Tin Girl has rusted himself crying. After they oil the Tin Girl again, they all happily continue the journey. The group safely reach the gates of the glorious Emerald City at last.

Surrender Zoe!
At first, the Guardian of the Gates is skeptical to let them into the city, but they are welcomed to enter inside thanks to the Ruby Ballet Slippers, Zoe is wearing. Once he sees the slippers on Zoe's feet, he immediately opens the large green doors that lead into the glorious city.

Inside the city citizens are all fashionable people, wearing fancy green outfits and attractive robes. Before they are allowed to see Oz, the companions must take a tour of the beautiful city in a green buggy drawn by the "horse of a different color". The four are all taken to the Emerald City beauty shop and salon to wash and tidy up to look presentable for the meeting with the Wizard. The Scarecrow gets re-stuffed with brand new straw, the Tin Girl gets his tin body polished, Zoe gets her hair done and the Lion gets her claws clipped and a curly perm for his mane that is adorned with red silk bow.

Meanwhile, the Wicked Principal of the West is still very displeased that they arrived in the city unharmed and she sets out on her flying broomstick to write in the sky in big, thick black smoke above the city in giant letters which read: '"SURRENDER ZOE"'.

Zoe, her friends and the citizens of the city all panic and question who is this Dorothy as everyone crowds together to consult the Wizard. The Soldier with the Green Whiskers tries to calm the city citizens down and tells them to go home and there is nothing to worry about. The citizens do as they are told and leave. But Zoe and her friends tell the Soldier that Zoe is the "Witch's Zoe!" And to please inform the Wizard at once!

Soon after the gates of the Wizards palace are thrown open that lead into a very tall and wide yet dim hallway. At the end of the long hallway, is the extravagant royal throne room of Oz. Zoe, the Scarecrow, the Tin Girl and Cowardly Lion meet the great and Powerful Wizard in the form of a giant-over sized translucent green head above a large green chair surrounded by green smoke and flames of shooting fire. Each of them are allowed to speak with Oz's head one by one as he screams and shouts at them in a powerful intimidating voice, but no one dares to talk back or question his authority. He tells them all he is indeed willing to grant their requests and wishes. But here's the catch, only if they bring him the magic rulerstick of the Wicked Principal of the West first to prove they are worthy enough to deserve his assistance and his usage of power. The group then have no choice but to obey the Wizard's commands, which sadly would require them to destroy and kill the Wicked Witch. While entering into the dark and very spooky Haunted Forest, in the western country of Oz, and which is the only way to reach the Wicked Principal's office, about a mile or so away, the Wicked Witch looks into her crystal ball and sees them coming. The Wicked Principal waste no time and sends her Flying Bullies out into the sky to bring her the girl and her dog and reminds the pact to not damage the Ruby Slippers. The Bullies fly away into the darkness and to the Haunted Forest to do as they are told.

Fly, Fly, Fly & Seize Them!
Zoe and her friends see the Flying Bullies in the sky coming straight towards them, so they run off as fast as they can in different directions. The army of Flying Bullies are just as fast and they quickly attack, terrorize and bully Zoe and her friends. The Bullies beat and ruff up the Tin Girl and pull the Scarecrow apart, leaving his straw scattered all around him. Then they chase after Zoe and Bruna and grab hold of them both, lifting them high into the sky bringing them to the Principal's office as Zoe screams in fear.

The Wicked Principal is now more satisfied as ever and tries to take the Ruby Slippers by threatening to drown little Bruna in a river below the castle, even putting him in a basket in a very similar manner to Miss Gulch. Zoe finally surrenders and agrees to give up the Ruby Slippers to the Principal in exchange for Bruna back.

But when the Wicked Principal tries to have at the Ruby Slippers at last, they shoot an unpredictable and painful electric sparks out that shock the Witch's hands painfully. Bruna, jumps out of the basket he is in and gets away to call for help. He safely escapes the castle grounds before anyone can catch him. This infuriates the Wicked Principal, who insists that it's more than Zoe will.

The Wicked Principal then decides she has to kill Zoe in the process if she wants the shoes all for herself. And as the Wicked Witch leaves, she locks Zoe in a room high up in a tower chamber with the hourglass of death, which represents Zoe's time to be alive. The Wicked Principal abandons a frightened Zoe, leaving her all alone as she goes off to figure out a way to take the Ruby Slippers off of Zoe's feet without damaging the pair's power.

Meanwhile, Bruna makes it back to the Scarecrow, Tin Girl and Cowardly Lion and takes them to the castle, showing them the way over a very rocky mountain. When they arrive to where the Principal lives they see the office is guarded by mean Rebel guards with sharp weapons and spears.

They successfully and surprisingly beat up three of the Principal's Rebel guards who try to come up on them from behind. The three wear their uniforms to enter the castle in disguise. And Bruna leads them up the castle stairs to the tower where Zoe is locked in. The Tin Girl chops down the door and breaks the lock with his axe, freeing the distraught, imprisoned Zoe just seconds before the hourglass of death ran out of time. Zoe is happy to see Bruna and her friends again, but there is no time to lose! They all quickly try to flee from the Witch's castle out the main door, but are caught red handed and attacked by the Wicked Principal and her guards who are ordered to seize them. After a chase scene up the castle walls, the Rebel guards have them cornered as they point to aim the sharp spears they carry directly at the four threatening to stab them.

The Wicked Principal laughs and cackles. She wickedly taunts them all as she decides to kill everyone else and Zoe last so she can watch. She starts with the Scarecrow first, taking her broomstick and setting the tip on fire from the flame of a torch on the wall of the castle and sets his arm on fire. The Scarecrow begins to panic and shout; Zoe throws a nearby bucket of collecting rain water to put out the fire, which also accidentally splashes all over the Principal. To the Principal this brings her death and causes her to melt away as she is liquidated — putting a final end to her Wicked ways.

To Zoe's shock, the Rebel guards are thrilled that the Wicked Principal is dead, freeing them from her evil spell for serving her forever, they all hail Zoe and bow down to her. To show their appreciation, they thank her by also giving her the Witch's broomstick as a reward and souvenir trophy.

The Man Behind The Curtain
The group make it back to the Emerald City. The Wizard seems surprised to see Zoe and the friends return in one piece. The Wizard tells them to come back tomorrow. But Zoe is angered at this so she demands for the Wizard to keep his promise and send her home. Bruna sneaks off and pulls back a green curtain at the corner of the throne room, revealing a little old gray-haired man, (Anthony Iachello) behind it dressed in a green suite, and Zoe finds out that he is really the Wizard. Just using machines to project a giant head giving it's audience a fake illusion. Zoe tells the Wizard that he is a very bad man for doing this, but the Wizard insists he is a very good man, but, on the other hand, just a very bad Wizard.

The Wizard tells the Scarecrow, Tin Girl and  Lion that they actually have what they have been searching for the entire time, and gives them items such as a diploma, a medal and heart-shaped pocket watch to remind them of this and so others will recognize them also. Keeping his promise and satisfying the three, he then turns to Zoe and tells her that he is also from New Jersey and came to Oz in a hot air balloon that was caught in a storm on a windy day at the circus fair. He then tells Zoe he will gladly take her and Bruna back home and even accompany her and the three will return to the land of E Pluribus Unum!

On the day the Balloon is to be launched, the Wizard tells all of the Emerald City citizens that are gathered around to watch him and Zoe leave together, that the Scarecrow will officially rule over the Emerald City until he returns, if ever. Before the last few seconds of the departure, Bruna jumps right out of Zoe's arms to chase after a Siamese cat with blue eyes who is meowing at him in the crowd. Zoe rushes off after her dog, not wanting to leave him. Unfortunately the Balloon takes off so quickly and floats away into the sky without before Zoe is able to return. The Wizard sincerely apologizes as the Balloon fades higher and higher up into the sky and is never seen again. Zoe is devastated and begins to cry as her three friends try comfort her. Zoe tells everyone that she may never see Danielle LaBella again and doesn't know what to do. The Cowardly Lion suggest for Zoe to live in Colts Neck, but Zoe tells him that Colts Neck will never be like New Jersey.

No place like Home
When all hope seems to be lost, Hanako the Good Witch appears for the second time in her magic floating bubble. She descends down into the city and the citizens all give her a low bow in her presence. Hanako then calms Zoe down and tells her that she always had the power to return home to New Jersey. She informs Zoe that she has learned her lesson of value to become a better person, and appreciate the people who love her. And that there really is no place like home after all and tells her the magic slippers that she has been wearing all along will take her home in two seconds, and Bruna too! Hanako explains that she chose not to tell Zoe before because she wouldn't have believed her and simply needed to find out for herself and not take her blessings for granted. Zoe then realizes she didn't have to run away to find her heart's desire, it was in front of her the entire time.

After a tearful goodbye with the Lion, Tin Girl and Scarecrow, to return to New Jersey, Zoe holds Bruna tightly in her arms, closes her eyes and clicks her heels of the magic Ruby Slippers together three times and repeats to herself that: "There's no place like home." Time seems to stop as everything magically begins to go back to the way it was.

Back in a black and white sepia tone, Zoe awakens in her bedroom of the house and is back in New Jersey. Danielle LaBella is at her side and has a rag over her forehead to ease the bump on Zoe's head. Zoe tries to explain what she saw in Colts Neck, but a doubtful Danielle and Jared then tell her that the adventure she described was just a dream from a bump on the head. But Zoe is convinced that her journey throughout the land of Oz was all in fact real. Hunk, Annette and Sharon reappear (whom she notices resemble the Scarecrow, Tin Girl, and Lion), and Professor Marvel (who resembles the Wizard) shows up at her window to see if Zoe made it home safely. Bruna jumps up onto the bed, and Zoe tells everyone that she promises to never run away ever again, because she loves them all and "There's no place like home".

Musical Ending
It was revealed in the RSC's musical production that Miss Almira Gulch was injured by a telegraph pole during the twister and her leg was in plaster.

Cast

 * Zoe Buchansky
 * Anthony Iachello: Professor Marvel, The Doorman, Cabby, Guard, and the Wizard of Colts Neck
 * Steven Larosiliere: Hunk, Scarecrow
 * Kristine Wall: Sharon, Cowardly Lion
 * Colleen Dalton: Annette, Tin Woodgirl
 * Hanako Matsuyama: The Good Witch of the North
 * Jillian Rosenfeld: Miss Almira Gulch, The Wicked Principal of the West
 * Jared Buchansky
 * Danielle LaBella
 * Bruna
 * The Teenage Singer Midgets: Puppets
 * Oobi: Tim Lagasse
 * Uma: Stephanie D'Abruzzo
 * The Animal Kids: Anndi McAfee, Heather Hogan, Aria Noelle Curzon
 * The Ocean Gang: Jackie Evancho, Arielle Baril, Laura Bretan
 * CJ Caiola
 * Vincenzo DiMarco: Captain of the Rebel guards
 * Shannon Benney: Angry Apple Tree

Trivia

 * The film airs once a year on TBS in the United States. The most recent airing was on Thanksgiving 2018.
 * The Yellow Brick Road was actually wood painted yellow.
 * The Cowardly Lion's costume was actually made from real lion fur.
 * At one point MGM's Leo the Lion was considered for the role of the Cowardly Lion
 * Margaret Hamilton suffered severe burns from pyrotechnics on set. She returned on the condition that she wouldn't have to do any more scenes with explosions. A stunt double was used for them.
 * There is a rumor that one of the Munchkin actors committed suicide on the set. He is referred to as The Hanging Munchkin by fans.
 * The Scarecrow's hat, the original film script, and one pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers are preserved in the vaults of the Smithsonian.
 * This was one of the first films to be produced in Technicolor.

References In Other Productions
The dub of the Digimon anime makes a great deal of references to The Wizard of Oz. These include: Other programs that have parodied The Wizard of Oz in an episode include:
 * Myotismon tells Kari "I've got you my pretty and your little cat too." The Wicked Witch of the West once says to Dorothy "I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too!"
 * When LadyDevimon is destroyed by Angewomon, she says "I'm melting!" like the Wicked Witch of the West does.
 * In the next episode after that, Sora says "There's no place like home. There's no place like home."
 * Piedmon mentions flying monkeys, referring to the Vilemon, his servants.
 * An episode in Season 2 is entitled "If I Only Had A Heart".
 * Earthworm Jim - "The Wizard of Ooze"
 * VeggieTales - "The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's"
 * Futurama - "Anthology of Interest II"
 * Phineas and Ferb - "Wizard of Odd"
 * Rugrats - "No Place Like Home"
 * Looney Tunes - Wihzzard Of Ow
 * The Fresh Beat Band - "The Wizard of Song"
 * The Suite Life On Deck - "Twister: Part 2"
 * Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - "Minnie's The Wizard of Dizz"
 * That's So Raven - "Soup to Nuts"
 * Victorious - "April Fools Blank"