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Evolution

A number of changes have taken place since Baum introduced the Wonderful World of Oz to readers. Here we will explore just a few-

Dorothy:

In L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, readers are given the impression that Dorothy is a little girl of no more than four years old. A large portion of the book is made up of her eating and sleeping, like a good little girl.

 

 

In The Play, she plays an older character, perhaps in her late teens, and is not innocent like the Dorothy in book or the film

In 1939's The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland who was 16 when she played Dorothy is the personification of sweetness
In 1978's The Wiz, Diana Ross, who at the time is thirty-three, plays a sensitive, inexperienced, 24 year old school teacher.
Josette Blackwood

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