Re: The Wizard of Oz

This is great.  I first noticed the Scarecrow's gun in rewatching the
film to practice the music, before our cast received their props, and
my reaction was much like this guy's, only his is about 100 times
longer and funnier:  http://home.earthlink.net/~jinxo/ozgun.html
Originally, our director was going to arm the Scarecrow with a
flit-gun-like insect sprayer (for the Jitterbugs--get it?)  I actually
brought such a destructive device for consideration (which was,
indeed, pretty dangerous in Scarecrow's hands--he immediately sprayed
Dorothy with it and I had some doing convincing her there'd been
nothing in it for 50 years but the hot soapy water I'd used to clean
it) but it was ultimately rejected in favor of a gun--only the gun in
our stage version is a huge rifle fixed up to look like a blunderbuss.
 No danger of anyone missing this one.  At least it's never pointed at
the Tin Man, at any rate, I don't think so, but what do I know?  At
that point I'm busy pulling out my entire arsenal of Jitterbug
effects.  (Hmmm, think there's any market for vintage flit guns on
eBay?)