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I was obsessed with 'The Wizard of Oz.'

First off, from reading the script and knowing that I was going to be apart of it, I'm a huge 'Wizard of Oz' fan so to be involved in something that was connected to the original books was really exciting for me and it was very different than anything I had ever worked on before.

'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

The fact is that 'The Wizard Of Oz' has never really worked in the theatre. The film has one or two holes where, in the theatre, you need a song. For example, there's nothing for either of the two witches to sing.

Frank Baum knew at once he had written something special when he completed 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'

I think 'Oz' is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, that's pretty intense.

I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television and just in great dramas. It's the foundation of my career. Most producers, show runners, directors, and casting directors put me in movies based on my performance in that show.

It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.

I've played 'The Wizard of Oz' for my kids, but by today's standards, it seems really long. I don't know if there's enough action in it for them. And there's the whole black-and-white sequence in the beginning where she's on a farm. It takes a while to get to the colored part, and then it gets more exciting, and things start to happen.