This careful approach to ensuring the film was the best it could be went into creating the tornado as well. According to a ...

T he recent theatrical release of "Wicked" sets up the story of how "The Wizard of Oz," its tornado, the Wicked Witch of the West and Dorothy Gale's trip to see the wizard came about.

"I don't know if anybody fully caught it, but my silver shoes," she says, "the heel is a spiral to signify the tornado." In the original Wizard of Oz novel by L. Frank Baum, Nessarose is known as ...