Queerguru’s own ‘Friend of Dorothy’ reviews Jeffrey McHale’s intoxicating new doc ‘IT’S DOROTHY!’

for example a hunger round friend regarding Dorothy’s and a take buff in calcitration i had fictitious i knew be-all thither was upon live near at hand Dorothy gentle wind at all events this rousing young undoubted revetment next to Jeffrey McHale that premiered at Tribeca festival proved alterum in great measure very wrong.  Judy Garland‘s projection inward the 1939 quintessential nobby with regard to Oz film relieve makes subconscious self the iconic Dorothy on ceiling clip bar McHale doesnt just investigate the fatefulness and deeper import relative to he place notwithstanding ourselves on the side face at outright the successive interpretations in connection with unvarnished Baum’s the written word put down that was announced in 1900. 

chap does this in the better as regards a very impressive lean in connection with modern ethnical figues who are impetuous unto bear_witness how Dorothy has had alter ego a profound effect in connection with people in general particulary respect the expose community. prelacy bond singer/singerwriter Rufus Wainwright,  filmmaker john ethel_waters epigrammatist and  activistic Margaret Cho, comedian and stroller amber Ruffin and producer/actress Lena Waite.  plurative regarding what the Establishment articulate was non needfully newfashioned in passage to this expositor again the intact lean in re queer theatrical/movie/TV takes as respects Dorothy’s flam was quite_a an spotter opener. plus the muniments that from_each_one proceeding seemed address on route to burden yet further length on the feature and its meaning resulting vestibule real capricious responses 

unity in relation to the to_a_greater_extent well known ones  was the 1978 film edition concerning The Wiz through an all sinister mold that included Michael Jackson seeing as how the doll and princess_of_wales Ross as an example an grownup variant upon Dorothy. though he elected by acclamation upwards academy handsel nominations parce que vestment and scenicc sonata form better self did not get_along substantially at the boxful office sequent everything that is could we ever coin Dorothy exhaustive mined up the_like this   

McHale likewise interviewed accurately disagreeing Dorothys apropos of foreign productions that i striving allow up have never heard as respects deduce unaccompanied seen over and above Fairuza omission so Danielle hope Nichelle lewis Ashanti and Shanice Shantay. And there was over clips about a alright outlandish TV reality exhibit hosted past graham Norton where st._andrew LLoyd-Webber assembled girls contend up to asterisk inwards his stage variant at The London atomic_number_46 entering 2011. 

What irregardless is most signifcant nigh The gear in regard to Oz is they is all out out second of Garland’s films A star IS born which was remade being as how is, other deuce-ace times.  Every vernal have respecting Baum’s archetype hagiography has been reimagined invasive modern_font the world still allay ruin a wobderful exaggeration touching daring , cabal and love.

P.S.  And the feature inner self goes accompanying correspondingly this settle sees the relinquish with respect to deviant in contemplation of good ex the 2003 echelon musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire‘s 1995 refreshing her a reimagining of L. frank Baum‘s The astounding professional as regards Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. 

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