Double Feature

A West Side Story fan ponders The Wizard of Oz (and vice-versa) West Side Story







    Full Circle
  • "Follow the Yellow Brick Road….Follow the Yellow Brick Road."
  • "Round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows."



    Pinch me
  • "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
  • "I hardly can believe I'm real."



    IQ updates
  • "I and Velma ain't dumb!"
  • "...if I only had a brain..."



    Street Scene
  • Yellow brick road
  • Under the highway



    Child psychology
  • "No, no—now don't tell me. They don't understand you at home. They don't appreciate you."
  • "We ain't no delinquents, we're misunderstood…."



    Skin-deep
  • "I've never heard of a beautiful witch before."
  • "You ain't never gonna get married – too ugly."



    Oh well
  • "I—I didn't mean to kill her…really I didn't! It's—it's just that he was on fire!"
  • "I didn't mean to hurt him, I didn't want to. I didn't know I had. But Riff…."



    Colorful accessories
  • Black Orchid
  • Ruby slippers



    Sorry you have to rush off---
  • "Be gone, before somebody drops a house on you, too."
  • "Beat it."



    High-maintenance
  • "Rub rub here, rub rub there...That’s how we keep you in repair..."
  • "Our cylinders are clickin'."



    Shakespeare rip-offs
  • "Picture me....a balcony....Above a voice sings low..."
  • "Come down…just for a minute."



    Colonel Mustard, in the study, with the candlestick...
  • "Who killed my sister?"
  • "He killed your brother!"



    Free zones
  • "The Munchkins will see you safely to the border of Munchkinland."
  • "The gym's neutral territory."



    The fair sex
  • "That was her sister—the Wicked Witch of the East. This is the Wicked Witch of the West. And she's worse than the other one was."
  • "What're we poopin' around with dumb broads?"



    Sudden death
  • "I'm melting! Melting!!"
  • "Down goes another teen-age hoodlum."



    Alter ego
  • "An American—who is really a Polack."
  • "He's the horse of a different color you've heard tell about."



    Eureka
  • " You're out of the woods / You're out of the dark / You're out of the night /Step into the sun /Step into the light."
  • "You're out in the sun and home free home!"



    Nice place to visit
  • "The merry old land of Oz."
  • "When I will go back to San Juan..."



    Family reunions
  • "Home! And this is my room – and you're all here!"
  • "You're home with your own."



    Manual override
  • "Bell out of order—please knock."
  • "I want to hold it the way we always held it—with skin."



    Covert operations
  • "My — ! People come and go so quickly here!"
  • "I'm very big with shadows. I can slip in and out of 'em like wind through a fence."



    Give up?
  • "When he's hollered 'uncle,' we'll tear up the town."
  • "Surrender, Dorothy"



    The return of Chivalry
  • "Helping the little lady along, are you, my fine gentlemen?"
  • "I would not leave the ladies here alone with your kind around."



    All in the family
  • "That was her sister—the Wicked Witch of the East."
  • "Stay away from my sister!"



    Brand names
  • The Singer Midgets
  • The Singer Sewing Machines



    Home of the brave
  • "I'm sure he could give you some courage."
  • "Who you callin' chicken?"



    Commercial for the Big Apple
  • "He really must be a wonderful Wizard to live in a City like that!"
  • "I like the island Manhattan."



    Older Men and the Younger Women Who Wish to See Them Without Appointments
  • "Please, sir. I've got to see the Wizard! The Good Witch of the North sent me!"
  • "I'd like to see Doc, please."



    Where the heart is
  • "There's no place like home."
  • "I know a boat you can get on!"



    Urban greenery
  • The Emerald City
  • The Emeralds



    Eternal youth
  • "I could stay young and chipper..."
  • "You can live it up and die in bed."



    Nowhere Man
  • "I haven't got a brain — only straw."
  • "I have no mind, I'm the Village Idiot."



    Smoke and mirrors
  • "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."
  • "This is not the Maria we know."



    Man's best friend
  • "Toto, too."
  • "Every dog knows his own."



    Creepy-crawlies
  • Flying monkeys
  • "Like a bat out of hell…."



    Strategic warfare
  • "We've brought you the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. We melted her."
  • "Gee, could a real zip gun make you do like that?"



    Oh, boo-hoo
  • "I don't want the guys to see me...I'm crying."
  • "Don't cry — you'll rust yourself again."



    Life's ups and downs
  • "I remember that some of it wasn't very nice, but most of it was beautiful."
  • "Everything free in America (for a small fee in America)"



    You'd be surprised
  • "Oh, I don't think there's anything in that black bag for me."
  • "Maybe what you're waiting for will be twitching at the dance."



    Trust me.
  • "Oh, will you? Could you? Oh -- but are you a clever enough Wizard to manage it?"
  • "I believe you. You do have magic."



    The fruit doesn't fall far
  • Talking apple trees
  • Wise apples



    Our boys at the front
  • "Frightened? You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death—sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe. I was petrified."
  • "I say let's forget the whole thing."



    "--I'm gonna make nice with 'em..."
  • "Krup you!"
  • "...and your little dog too!"



    Beware of snarly women bearing gifts
  • "I'll give you a message for your American buddy!"
  • "Here, Scarecrow! Want to play ball?"



    To dye for
  • "Can you even dye my eyes to match my gown?"
  • "Could we not dye it red, at least?"



    Fancy footwork
  • "Tap your heels together three times."
  • "...and walk tall."



    The buddy system
  • "Here—give us your hands, and we'll pull you along…"
  • "Hold my hand, and we're halfway there."



    The art of conversation
  • "But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?"
  • "Cut the frabbajabba"



    Déjà vu
  • "You're not thinking I'm someone else...Or that we have met before?"
  • "And it's funny, but I feel as if I've known you all the time. But I couldn't have, could I?"



    Journey's end
  • "There's Emerald City! Oh, we're almost there at last! At last!"
  • "We're gonna rock it tonight!"





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