After the Wizard, directed by the screenwriter Hugh Gross, is presumed to be a sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s story of 1900, which had a profound political meaning at the time. After all, Baum wrote thirteen sequels. But neither adults nor children will enjoy Gross’s nonsequitur nonsequel. Whereas Baum’s Wizard of Oz (President Teddy Roosevelt) asked Dorothy and her friends to go back to the heartland to raise hell on behalf of their concerns, After the Wizard has a 12-year-old Elizabeth (played by Jordan Van Vranken) in a Kingman, Kansas, orphanage believing that she is Dorothy. Meanwhile, the Scarecrow (played by Jermel Nakia) and the Tin Woodman (played by Orien Richman), disgusted over the greed and selfishness in the land of Oz, leave their political roles. The Scarecrow now has a brain, and the Tin Woodman has a heart, and they go to Kansas to ask Dorothy’s help. But on arrival they instead help Dorothy from being consigned to a mental institution by the orphanage’s headmistress (played by Helen Richman) for her apparent delusionary thoughts. MH