If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

I was obsessed with 'The Wizard of Oz.'

I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch.

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.

The Wizard of Oz.

So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as 'The Original.' In fact, it isn't.