![]() ![]() Members of the audience clap along and sometimes sing along with familiar Harold Arlen-E. So audiences stir with joy when the brown-braided Jessica Grove breaks into ''Over the Rainbow'' soon after the start of this ''Wizard.'' The entrance of Eartha Kitt as the menacing Miss Gulch (soon to be the Wicked Witch) evokes the sort of pleasure and comic disdain that might greet a villain climbing through the ropes at a wrestling match. Familiarity is omnipresent pure enchantment is missing. Drawing on sources with time-tested appeal to children and featuring stars who stir nostalgia among parents and grandparents, these shows provide an expansive forum where hundreds of people can share their common appreciation of more than twice-told tales. Rather, lavish productions like this and the ''Christmas Carol'' that set up shop from time to time in the Theater at Madison Square Garden seem to provide a forum for communal celebration. Frank Baum novel or the 1939 film that are its inspirations. Big and colorful though it might be, a spectacle like the new ''Wizard of Oz'' cannot hold a Munchkin to either the L. ![]()
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