{"id":2163808,"date":"2025-11-18T07:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2163808"},"modified":"2025-11-18T07:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:05:38","slug":"see-how-wamego-kansas-celebrates-wizard-of-oz-and-its-kansas-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/see-how-wamego-kansas-celebrates-wizard-of-oz-and-its-kansas-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"See how Wamego, Kansas, celebrates &#8216;Wizard of Oz&#8217; and its Kansas ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\"><media-video video-id=\"87235539007\" title=\"Wamego, Kansas, gives Oz fans the yellow brick road experience\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/videos\/wochit\/thumbnails\/87235539007.jpg\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" placement=\"snow-video-story-priority\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Wamego, Kansas, gives Oz fans the yellow brick road experience<\/p>\n<p>Wamego, Kansas, offers photo ops galore for fans of &#8220;Wicked&#8221; and &#8220;The Wizard of Oz,&#8221; with a museum, yellow brick road and Toto statues around town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/media-video><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Wicked: For Good&#8221; is about to hit movie theaters across the country, and interest in Oz is soaring \u2014 maybe even defying gravity.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p>The town of Wamego, Kansas, celebrates the state&#8217;s connection to the beloved children&#8217;s book &#8220;The Wonderful Wizard of Oz&#8221; published in 1900, the classic 1939 MGM film &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; and spinoffs like the hit Broadway musical and now two-part film with its Oz Museum, a yellow brick road, many murals and Toto statues. 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Frank Baum&#8217;s book series, the classic film starring Judy Garland and &#8220;Wicked&#8221; alike, the museum and art installations provide an opportunity to enjoy an Ozian atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>While &#8220;Wicked: For Good&#8221; still focuses on Elphaba and Glinda, Dorothy Gale from Kansas does make an appearance, connecting the &#8220;Wicked&#8221; narrative to Dorothy and her companions&#8217; journey across Oz and melting of the Wicked Witch of the West as told in &#8220;The Wizard of Oz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2025-11-17 21:00:29.858876361 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2025-11-17 21:00:29.858876361 +0000 UTC\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.news-leader.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wamego, Kansas, gives Oz fans the yellow brick road experience Wamego, Kansas, offers photo ops galore for fans of &#8220;Wicked&#8221; and &#8220;The Wizard of Oz,&#8221; with a museum, yellow brick road and Toto statues around town. &#8220;Wicked: For Good&#8221; is about to hit movie theaters across the country, and interest in Oz is soaring \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2163809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[398897,39915,22220,307621,344468,358177,307620,307623,380210,346769,305282,358175,43013,6297,21741,22702,400854,21993,22304,23560,21739,298114,29913,309365,345567,22020,346106,358176,28774,239343,239347,358173,23759,343503,415275,67134,24442,35643,358174,24047,349157,415274,239344,357874,358172],"class_list":["post-2163808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-wicked-stage-musical","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-audience","tag-broadway","tag-broadway-u0026-musical-theater","tag-ccj","tag-ccj-audience","tag-childrens-literature","tag-childrens","tag-classic","tag-classic-films","tag-content","tag-eamotion","tag-entertainment","tag-family","tag-family-films","tag-films","tag-kansas","tag-literature","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-missouri","tag-mo","tag-mo-content-sharing","tag-movie","tag-musical","tag-musical-films","tag-of","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-oz","tag-positive","tag-road","tag-road-trips","tag-sharing","tag-stage","tag-the","tag-the-wizard-of-oz-movie","tag-theater","tag-tourism","tag-trips","tag-u0026","tag-wicked","tag-wizard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/See-how-Wamego-Kansas-celebrates-Wizard-of-Oz-and-its.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163810,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163808\/revisions\/2163810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}