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.

The Basics: The Wizard of Oz ... are whisked away to the magical land of Oz, still in their house, which remains relatively intact when a rip-roaring tornado tears through the Kansas farmland ...