Puddles can be more experimental, with stunts like singing "Pinball Wizard" to the tune of "Folsom Prison Blues"—regularly earning hundreds of thousands of viewers and occasionally scoring a viral hit.
Created by New York-based intermedia ensemble The Builders Association, Elements of Oz reenacts Dorothy's journey through a mixture of IRL and digital tools, like live performance, a custom-designed app enabling engaging visual overlays, and a virtual YouTube chorus that sings Wizard of Oz classics.
In the M-G-M movie, the seekers along the yellow brick road rapturously sing, "The Wizard of Oz is one because... because of the wonderful things he does"; then it turns out that what he does is concoct visual hokum with a crank and escape in a mismanaged hot-air balloon.
For example, Sohn would sing The Wizard of Oz's "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead".
Kansas native and star of the Last Night of the Proms, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato sings the Wizard of Oz standard at the close of The Andrew Marr Show, accompanied by Ian Burnside on piano.
Many folks also mentioned Wicked standby Alyssa Fox, who sang "The Wizard and I" from the show, as a highlight.
On the night of the final, she sang The Wizard of Oz's "Over the Rainbow", but lost to Paul Potts as a result of the call-in vote.
Singing songs about wizards, Quidditch and the Hogwarts School, the duo has been rocking bookstores and libraries across the U.S. "We'll play pretty much anywhere," says Paul.
Although there wasn't a yellow-brick road in sight, the voice of Judy Garland singing "We're off to see the wizard" danced involuntarily into my imagination.
GE is promoting the smart grid with ads that show a scarecrow singing "If I only had a brain" from "The Wizard of Oz" while bouncing along an old power line.
