• Director Jon M. Chu used silhouette-only auditions to cast Dorothy in "Wicked: For Good." • Dorothy's face is never shown in the film in order to keep the attention on Elphaba and Glinda. • Bethany Weaver, a dancer, was ultimately cast as Dorothy.
Dorothy's pigtails and ruby slippers are iconic in "The Wizard of Oz." But when it came to casting someone to play the character in "Wicked: For Good," director Jon M. Chu wanted the rest of her to be as unrecognizable as possible.
Dorothy's face is never shown in the movie — she's only shot from far away, from the legs down, or in silhouette. So Chu decided that for the auditions, he didn't want to see the performers' faces.
"We would put a sheet up, looking at the performer's silhouette," Chu told Business Insider. "Through that, I was

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