{"id":119375,"date":"2025-03-04T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/04\/judy-garlands-daughter-approves-of-ariana-grandes-somewhere-over-the-rainbow-performance\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T21:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:01:13","slug":"judy-garlands-daughter-approves-of-ariana-grandes-somewhere-over-the-rainbow-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/04\/judy-garlands-daughter-approves-of-ariana-grandes-somewhere-over-the-rainbow-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Garland’s daughter approves of Ariana Grande’s ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ performance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disney\/Frank Micelotta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When she was a little girl, Ariana Grande <\/strong>would\u00a0dress up<\/a> as Judy Garland<\/strong> in The Wizard of Oz.<\/em> Now she’s getting props from Garland’s daughter.<\/p>\n

After Ariana opened the Oscars by singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow<\/a>” in a red dress inspired by the ruby slippers Garland wore in the film, actress Lorna Luft<\/strong>, Garland’s daughter, took to her Instagram Story to comment.<\/p>\n

Luft wrote,<\/a>\u00a0“Thank you to @arianagrande, @cynthiaerivo, & @theacademy for honoring my mother’s memory so beautifully. Myself and my family are very grateful. All Love, Lorna.”<\/p>\n

Ariana, who fans know is a talented mimic, played Garland in a cut-for-time sketch<\/a> on Saturday Night Live<\/em> in 2016.<\/p>\n

Garland, who died in 1969, was also the mother of singer\/actress\u00a0Liza Minnelli<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disney\/Frank Micelotta When she was a little girl, Ariana Grande would\u00a0dress up as Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. Now she’s getting props from Garland’s daughter. After Ariana opened the Oscars by singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in a red dress inspired by the ruby slippers Garland wore inRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}