Movie theaters nationwide are celebrating the 80th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz this week. Audiences young and old won’t want to miss this special showing. This beloved classic includes special insight from Turner Classic Movies.

“Try to Remember” a time when Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt weren’t doing exciting work in our musical theater. As all of us in a packed house heard on Monday, you’d have to go back even further than The Fantasticks to their work for revues in the late 1950s, and even to a college musical they wrote at the University of Texas in 1951.