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Definitely Not a Cash Grab: Warner Brothers to Re-Release THE WIZARD OF OZ as WICKED: 1½ by Broadway Beat

by Leah Windahl. @leah_windahl. THE AMC ON 42 nd  STREET, NY " Though usually a place where dreams come true, everyone has a nice time, and nobody gets bedbugs, the atmosphere at the 42nd Street AMC was decidedly bleak last Friday, as the audience emerged from an exclusive press-screener of Warner Brother's so-called upcoming film, Wicked: 1½,  which was clearly a re-release of 1939's The Wizard of Oz .  …

SOURCE: www.thebroadwaybeat.com at 12:00AM on January 1, 2026

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