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Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets, then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. This is the laughable definition of the plot which has been making the rounds, which I would credit if I knew the original source. Since my local theater is doing its own production of The Wizard of Oz (Friday was opening night) I'm fast becoming an expert on both the movie and stage play, and decided to have another look at the book, which I read once, twenty years ago. The movie of course took some liberties, and the moviemakers can be credited with many moments of brilliant inspiration, but book and movie are remarkably similar, even more so than I remembered. The stage play also includes things from the book the movie doesn't. The de_script_ion of the Tin Man's story is more graphic, and no one knew from the movie alone that the witch's slaves were called Winkies, as it is never mentioned there. Above de_script_ion aside, I must ask who else here finds the plot a bit unsettling? I know it's scorned by the same groups who burn Harry Potter and that some parents won't let their kids see it because of the witch and so on. The witch, however, is MEANT to be evil, and has a MOTIVATION for acting as she does