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VINEYARD'S "WIZARD' STRONG DESPITE FLAWS.(Local)(Theater Review)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20051105
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Byline: Chuck Klaus Contributing writer

The collaborative nature of an entertainment - especially of the motion picture scripting process - is quickly brought home when one examines exactly who was responsible for the adaptation of L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz" for MGM.

In addition to lead writers Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allen Woolf, others who had a hand in the script include Arthur Freed, E.Y. Harburg and even the man mainly responsible for the writing of "Citizen Kane," Herman J. Mankiewicz. In addition, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr, the Tin Man ...

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