Wicked would have had Dorothy’s stamp of approval!
The Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland’s daughter, Lorna Luft, said she believes her mom would have “loved” the recent musical starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.
“She would’ve loved it,” Luft, 72, told People at the Broadway opening night of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends on Tuesday, April 8.
As for which song Garland would have loved the most, Luft said, “I have no idea. But she would’ve loved it.”
Universal Studios ; Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are the latest stars to step into the iconic roles of Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West, but how does their film adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked connect to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz? Even the OG […]
Garland famously played Dorothy Gale in the 1939 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, which inspired Wicked, a prequel of sorts to that film from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West, who is given the name Elphaba in Wicked.
Margaret Hamilton, Judy Garland, and Billie Burke, 1939. Courtesy Everett Collection
The famous actress died in 1969 at the age of 47, however, she is survived by her three children, including actress and singer Liza Minnelli, 79, whom she shared with her second husband, Vincente Minelli. Garland later welcomed Lorna and Lorna’s brother, Joey, 70, with film producer and manager Sidney Luft.
While Dorothy doesn’t appear in 2024’s Wicked, which adapts the first half of the 2003 stage musical of the same name, she is expected to appear in the sequel Wicked: For Good later this year.
Director Jon M. Chu has yet to reveal who will play Dorothy in the movie, but he teased that she will have a significant role in the upcoming sequel.
The ruby slippers from 1939’s The Wizard of Oz are now the most expensive piece of film memorabilia in history. The shoes, worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in the beloved film, sold at auction in Dallas for $28 million — $32.5 million including taxes and fees — on Saturday, December 7, Heritage Auctions announced. […]
“I won’t talk too much about what we show or don’t show in movie 2,” he told Screen Rant in November 2024. “But in movie 1, it was important to let Dorothy be how you want her to be. I didn’t want to step on your images of whatever version of Dorothy you wanted her to be.”
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Universal Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
“But [Dorothy’s] presence is important, because that plays a significant role in what will happen and how they intersect. That was sort of how we played with it. But you’ll have to see movie 2 to know how far we go with her,” Chu added.
Universal Pictures Wicked changed Us for good, and the second half is sure to do the same. The first of the two-part Wicked movie adaptation, released in November 2024, brought the beloved Broadway show to life on the big screen. Starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as Elphaba and Glinda, respectively, the story chronicled the […]
In February, Matilda the Musical and Abigail star Alisha Weir, 15, responded to rumors that she is set to play Dorothy in Wicked: For Good. “When I saw it, I was like, ‘This is absolutely crazy,’ and it went so crazy on social media, and everybody was asking me,” Weir told RTÉ News (per HuffPost). “I mean, that would be wonderful. I’m such a big fan of Wicked, and I saw the first one with my family.”
“I was such a big fan of Jon Chu’s work, and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. That would be pretty cool,” she added.