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Old 'Wizard of Oz' pumped up for new generation.

Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

| October 29, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 South Florida Sun-Sentinal. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Rod Stafford Hagwood

Oct. 29--There's no downloading Dorothy. You'll have to explain to your children that they'll just have to go, sit and see the musical The Wizard of Oz onstage at Miami's Arsht Center. To be sure, there is an effort to bring the 1939 film version of the L. Frank Baum classic book (published in 1900) into the cyber-riffic age of video games and CGI. The cyclone that whisks Dorothy Gale from Kansas to the Land of Oz is a mightily impressive use of scrim screens and videotape. The Wicked Witch of the West has an arsenal of fireballs shooting from her broom. The pacing of the story is closer to Grand Theft Auto, whipping from one …

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