Right after The Walt Disney Company bought the rights to the Muppets franchise in 2004, pre-production took place throughout February 2004, and principal photography began seven months later. Swept up by a tornado, in her trailer home with pet prawn Toto, she lands in Oz and embarks on a journey to meet the Wizard who can help make her dreams come true. Frank Baum, the story follows young Dorothy Gale, who works in her Aunt Em's diner, but dreams of becoming a singer somewhere beyond her small Kansas town. The film stars Ashanti, Jeffrey Tambor, Quentin Tarantino, David Alan Grier, Queen Latifah, Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta, and Eric Jacobson.Ī contemporary adaptation of the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. It is the second film to be made for television in The Muppets franchise. And if you’re able to find one these days, we don’t recommend trying to play " by sense of smell.The Muppets' Wizard of Oz is a 2005 musical fantasy television film directed by Kirk R. In 1994, Data East created a pinball machine inspired by the Broadway adaptation of the Who's rock opera. Townshend yelled back, ‘Fuck off my fucking stage’” and whacked him with his guitar. Later, "Pinball Wizard" gained infamy at Woodstock when, after the performance of the song, famed radical Abbie Hoffman, ran onstage and shouted: “I think this is a pile of shit while John Sinclair rots in prison!” He was referencing to the 10-year sentence given to his friend for possession of two joints. ![]() to date, paving the way for the runaway success of Tommy. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, the Who’s second-highest charting single in the U.S. Perhaps more importantly for a band whose penchant for smashing instruments and flashy clothes had put them in considerable debt by 1969, "Pinball Wizard" gave them a song that could stand outside of the story for radio airplay. Tommy’s skill at pinball, despite being a “ deaf, dumb and blind boy,” provided a way for him to become famous. Even though "Pinball Wizard" was tacked on, the song turned out to be important to the story. He would later admit to making up the story, basing it on a Shepherd’s Bush mod - the group that were the Who’s original fan base - that he knew in the '60s.Ĭohn proved to be an effective sounding board. His 1976 essay for New York magazine about the disco scene in Brooklyn called "Tribal Rights of the New Saturday Night" was used as the basis for Saturday Night Fever. ![]() I knocked a demo together and took it to the studio and everyone loved it.”Īs a side note, "Pinball Wizard" wasn’t Nik Cohn’s sole contribution to music history. ![]() ![]() I attempted the same mock baroque guitar beginning that’s on ‘I’m a Boy’ and then a bit of vigorous kind of flamenco guitar. … It was going to be a complete dud, but I carried on. “This is awful, the most clumsy piece of writing I’ve ever done,” he said in 1996. Anything with pinball in it’s fantastic.’ And so I wrote ‘Pinball Wizard,’ purely as a scam.”īut Townshend wasn’t too thrilled with the result. “I just remember saying to him, with maybe an element of sarcasm, 'So, if it had pinball in it, would you give it a decent review?’" Townshend told Uncut in 2004.
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