- Year
- 2025
- When
- April 2025
- Venue
- Dormston Mill Theatre, Sedgley
- Type
- Musical
- By
- L. Frank Baum
- Music and lyrics
- Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
- Background music
- Herbert Stothart
- Dance and vocal arrangements
- Peter Howard
- Orchestration
- Larry Wilcox
- Adapted by
- John Kane, for the Royal Shakespeare Company
- Based on
- the motion picture owned by Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros.
- Photographs
- 183 in the gallery
Synopsis
Dorothy Gale lives on a Kansas farm with Aunt Em, Uncle Henry and her dog Toto, until mean old Miss Gulch threatens to take Toto away and Dorothy dreams of somewhere over the rainbow. A cyclone carries house, girl and dog to Munchkinland, where the house lands on the Wicked Witch of the East. Glinda sends Dorothy along the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, and a Scarecrow, a Tinman and a Cowardly Lion join her. The Wizard demands the Wicked Witch of the West's broomstick. Water melts the Witch, the Wizard proves an ordinary man, and Dorothy clicks her heels for home.
From the company’s records
Ran 8 April 2025 to 13 April 2025.
The company's second staging of the show, after April 2012.
Who made it
Production team
- Producer / Director
- Alf Rai
- Choreographer
- Lindsey Vickers
- Musical Director
- Rob Murray
- Lighting Design & Operation
- Ethan Hamblett
- Lighting Supply
- Vortex Technical Productions
- Followspots
- Giles Hamblett
- Followspots
- Sam Pope
- Sound Engineer
- Black Country Audio
- Costumes
- Leo's Theatrical Costumiers
- Scenery
- Scenic Projects Ltd
- Props
- Nikki Rai
- Stage Manager
- Stephen Taylor
- Wardrobe Mistress
- Laura Leo
- Hair & Makeup
- Paul Herrington & Team
- Programme Production
- Daniel Haddon
- Programme Production
- Abbie Wild
- Ticket Secretary
- Christine Spittle
- Front of House Manager
- Teah Askey
- Promotional & headshot photography
- Daniel Haddon
- Show photography
- Chris Wolverson
- Band, Keys / MD
- Rob Murray
- Band, Flute / Piccolo / Recorder
- Beccy Bernamont
- Band, Oboe / Cor Anglais
- Simon Dewhurst
- Band, Clarinet / Clarinet / Alto Sax
- Giac Aggas
- Band, Flute / Clarinet / Tenor Sax
- Sarah Jayne Berry
- Band, Flute / Clarinet / Bari Sax
- Liz Oughton
- Band, Trumpet
- Craig Stevens
- Band, Horn
- Sarah Kimber
- Band, Trombone
- Becca Pope
- Band, Keys
- Alex Lamb
- Band, Drums
- Stephen Plummer
- Band, Bass
- Laurie Olphin
Cast
- Dorothy Gale
- Abbie Sellick
- Scarecrow
- Daniel Haddon
- Tin Man
- Simon McGee
- Hickory
- Simon McGee
- Cowardly Lion
- Craig Griffiths
- Wicked Witch of the West
- Nikki Rai
- Glinda, Good Witch of the North
- Megan Gosnell
- Wizard of Oz
- David Callaghan
- Emerald City Guard
- Thomas Knapper
- Toto (puppet operator)
- Abbie Wild
- Aunt Em
- Kelly Ashman
- Aunt Em
- Tina Stephenson
- Uncle Henry
- Jim Steventon
- Mayor of Munchkinland
- Jim Steventon
Everybody else
The rest of the names the company’s records carry for this production, on stage and off it.
Chorus and company12
Laura Brennan, Jade Dale, Samantha Henry, Emma Shackleton, Laura Leo, Kilby Ward, Aimee Morgan, Louise Swann, Charlotte Goode, Sam Hancox, Emily Lloyd-Hickman, Maisie Addinell
The running order
Every number, in the order the programme printed them.
Act one
Over the Rainbow
Dorothy
Munchkin Musical Sequence
Glinda, Dorothy & Munchkins
Yellow Brick Road
Munchkins
If I Only Had a Brain
Scarecrow, Dorothy & Crows
We're Off to See the Wizard (Duet)
Dorothy & Scarecrow
If I Only Had a Heart
Tinman, Dorothy & Trees
We're Off to See the Wizard (Trio)
Dorothy, Tinman & Scarecrow
If I Only Had the Nerve
Lion, Dorothy, Scarecrow & Tinman
We're Off to See the Wizard (Quartet)
Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman & Lion
Poppies
Chorus (Poppies, Snowmen), Glinda, Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman & Lion
Act two
Merry Old Land of Oz
Dorothy, Scarecrow, Lion, Emerald City Guard & Ozians
Reprise: Merry Old Land of Oz
Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman, Lion, Guard & Ozians
King of the Forest
Lion, Dorothy, Scarecrow & Tinman
Jitterbug
Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman, Lion & Chorus
Reprise: Jitterbug
Ensemble
Winkies March Reprise
Winkies, Scarecrow, Tinman, Lion & Dorothy
Reprise: Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead
Winkies
A5 flyer front, 2025
The company’s own artwork for The Wizard of Oz, as it was printed. The archive holds printed artwork for the seasons from 2018 onwards and none at all before that.
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