An early film by a competitor of the Wizard of Menlo Park simply showed a long kiss performed by two actors of the contemporary stage.

" Yip " Harburg ( performed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), " White Christmas " written by Irving Berlin ( best-known performance by Bing Crosby ), " This Land Is Your Land " written and performed by Woody Guthrie, " Respect " written by Otis Redding ( best-known performance by Aretha Franklin ), and " American Pie ".

* ' Over the Rainbow ' contestant Jenny Douglas performed her version of ' Send in the Clowns ' during the 2010 talent contest to find a leading lady for the Wizard of Oz, in musical theatre week.

The Wizard performed in Cathedral Square on weekdays from 1-2pm from November to Easter.

In 1991, the then-10-year-old Fishel was discovered in a community theater where she performed in two productions, The Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan.

The Who performed at the Super Bowl XLIV half-time show on 7 February 2010, playing a medley of songs that included " Pinball Wizard ", " Who Are You ", " Baba O ' Riley ", " See Me Feel Me " and " Won't Get Fooled Again ".

In 1995 he performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, a musical performance of the popular story at the Lincoln Center in New York to benefit the Children's Defense Fund.

* 2001 – " A View to a Kill "/" The Never Ending Story "/" Pinball Wizard "/" Can You Feel the Love Tonight " < small >< nowiki > tracks performed by Limahl from the Compilation album | compilation entitled What a Feeling II – The Rock ' n ' Pop Musicals in Concert from the musical of the same name </ small >

In 1995 Winger performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a musical performance of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund.

Lane performed in 1995's The Wizard of Oz in Concert at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund.

The Cowardly Lion is also the only character in the movie who has two solo song numbers -" If I Only Had the Nerve ," performed after his initial meeting with Dorothy, The Scarecrow, and The Tin Man in the forest, and " If I Were King of the Forest ," performed while he and the others are awaiting their audience with the Wizard.

The first version was performed by Silly Wizard and was used until 1982.

Another version was released on record in 1980 and was also performed by Silly Wizard.

During the band's Fall / Winter 2001 Greatest Hits Tour, both " Thanks That Was Fun " and " It's Only Me ( The Wizard of Magicland )" were performed under the guise of a " new greatest hit ", poking fun at the industry practice oxymoron of including several new songs as part of a greatest hits package.

In November 1995, he performed as the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a staged concert of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund.

In 1987, they composed and performed four songs for the Canadian and U. S. versions of the anime series, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

However, Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem backed Miss Piggy for a song in The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz and performed alongside Miley Cyrus in the Studio DC: Almost Live television special.

In The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz, she was performed by Tyler Bunch.

In his earlier " White Wizard " years, he performed an act dressed entirely in white in which he made billiard balls and silks vanish, multiply, and reappear.

Thomas credited the name of the band to a flatmate who was writing a book of children's stories, and the group first performed as " Silly Wizard " in summer 1972.

Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

* Review of A Wizard of Earthsea by J. K. Pelletier

The play was not officially endorsed by the Magliozzis, but they participated in the production, lending their voices to a central puppet character named " The Wizard of Cahs ".

* Corporate Shuffle by Richard Garfield — 1997 ; A Dilbert-branded card game similar to Wizard of the Coast's The Great Dalmuti and the drinking game President

In 1975, hip-hop DJ Grand Wizard Theodore invented the scratching technique by accident.

* Hickory, portrayed by Jack Haley, the farm worker who became the Tin Woodsman in Dorothy's dream in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz

Although numerous political references to the " Wizard " appeared early in the 20th century, it was in a scholarly article by Henry Littlefield, an upstate New York high school history teacher, published in 1964 that there appeared the first full-fledged interpretation of the novel as an extended political allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.

The character was ranked as the 8th Greatest Villain by Wizard on its 100 Greatest Villains of All Time list.

Gone with the Wind and Dark Victory both earned him Academy Award nominations, however, he lost to the score of The Wizard of Oz by Herbert Stothart.

Nicknamed " The Wizard " for his defensive brilliance, Smith set major league records for career assists ( 8, 375 ) and double plays ( 1, 590 ) by a shortstop ( the latter since broken by Omar Vizquel ), as well as the National League ( NL ) record with 2, 511 career games at the position ; Smith won the NL Gold Glove Award for play at shortstop for 13 consecutive seasons ( 1980 – 1992 ).

* Relativity ( band ), a band founded by Scottish folk musician Phil Cunningham and other members of the group, Silly Wizard

During this time Scott became known by the nickname " The Wizard of the North ".

Raimi is set to direct Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, which will be released in 2013 by Walt Disney Pictures.

Dubbed " The Wizard of Menlo Park " ( now Edison, New Jersey ) by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

It was first released on videotape and CED in the 1980s by Wizard Video and Vestron Video.

The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart.

He filmed the cave scene for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ) and, following the firing of its original director Richard Thorpe, Cukor spent a week on the set of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

Richard Corliss noted that the film appeared to have been influenced by The Wizard of Oz and the works of Maurice Sendak, writing that " Labyrinth lures a modern Dorothy Gale out of the drab Kansas of real life into a land where the wild things are.

The resulting film version of The Wiz also starred former Motown star Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow, Nipsey Russell as the Tin Man, Richard Pryor as the Wizard, jazz singer Thelma Carpenter as Miss One and Lena Horne as Glinda the Good Witch.

As they wait for their wedding day to approach, they discover three Sisters of Light are pursuing Richard, intending to take him back to the Old World to be trained as a Wizard.

Prior to the start of Blood of the Fold Richard comes to terms with his true identity as a War Wizard ( a powerful wizard with both additive and subtractive magic ).

* There are two references to The Wizard of Oz-once when Richard asks Fantasy if he has to " click his heels " in order to go home, and again when the characters are seen walking on a yellow brick road.

On 16 April 1781, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the manager of Drury Lane, cast both Giuseppe and Grimaldi in the pantomime The Wizard of the Silver Rocks ; or, Harlequin's Release.

The program's hosts once called the White House on the air to ask if The Grand Wizard ( referred to as TGW on the program because " only those closest to the Grand Wizard are allowed to call him TGW ") was finished with his consultation with President Richard Nixon.

After fighting many battles against the Imperial Order, overseeing the wedding of Verna to the Wizard Warren, the subsequent death of Warren, and a major blow to the ranks of the Order, Kahlan and Cara leave to find Richard.

The Sliph instigates " emergency measures " instilled in her thousands of years ago by First Wizard Barracus and shunts Richard to an emergency escape portal somewhere in the wilds close to the land of the Night Wisps.