- Year
- 2012
- When
- April 2012
- Type
- Musical
- Photographs
- 30 in the gallery
Synopsis
Little Dorothy Gale of Kansas, like so many girls of her age, often dreams of what may lie over the rainbow. One day a tornado hits her home town and carries her away to picturesque Munchkinland, at the other end of the rainbow. The Munchkins treat Dorothy as a hero because, in landing, her house accidentally killed the Wicked Witch of the East, who had long tormented them. Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas and seeks help from the kind Sorceress of the North. Only the great Wizard of Oz, says the Sorceress, can help Dorothy to get back to Kansas. Dorothy persuades three friends to accompany her on the trip to the Emerald City to see the Wizard. They are the Scarecrow, who lacks a brain, or so he thinks, the Tin Woodman, who has no heart, and the Cowardly Lion, who would like to have some courage. The Wicked Witch of the West, sister of the witch killed by Dorothy's arrival, vows vengeance on Dorothy and does all she can to stop Dorothy and her new friends from getting to the Emerald City. However her plots are in vain and Dorothy and the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion reach the Emerald City and meet the Wizard. He will only help them if they kill the Witch of the West, an apparently impossible task. They do, however, succeed, they all get their wishes and then Dorothy realises that she has the power to return home.
From the company’s records
Put forward for the Best Production award for the Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire region of NODA West Midlands.
Karl Babarczi joined the production team as Musical Director for this show.
The run ended on Saturday 28 April 2012.
The archive does not record the venue for this production.
Who made it
Production team
- Producer/Director
- Andy Poulton
- Musical Director
- Karl Babarczi
- Accompanist
- Phil James
- Choreographer
- Meg Dowen
Cast
- Dorothy Gale
- Claudia Gilmour
- Emily Gale (Aunt Em)
- Carol Burgess
- Henry Gale (Uncle Henry)
- Colin Hunt
- Hunk / Scarecrow
- Will Phipps
- Hickory / Tin Woodman
- Rob Dixon
- Zeke / Cowardly Lion
- Alf Rai
- Almira Gultch / Wicked Witch of the West
- Rachel Coleman
- Professor Chester Marvel / Wizard of Oz
- John Wiley
- Glinda (the Good Witch)
- Mary Mark
- Emerald City Guard
- Roger Stokes
- Trees
- Hannah Bevan, Amelia Gilmour, Sarah Joynes, Sam King, Lydia Lavill, Charlotte Poulton-Dowen
- Crows
- Phillip Field, Matt Wirtz
- Winkie General
- Matt Cullis
- Nikko (Commander of the Monkeys)
- Beth Coleman
- Jitterbug
- Abbie Rai
- Toto
- Sammi (rescue dog from Birmingham Dogs Home)
Everybody else
The rest of the names the company’s records carry for this production, on stage and off it.
Munchkins and Ozians42
Vicky Anthony, Rebecca Atkins, Hannah Bevan, Victoria Bird, Hannah Clarke, Zoe Clee, Beth Coleman, Megan Cooper, Hannah Corbett, Kay Corbett, Lizzie Corbett, Amelia Gilmour, Angela Holmes, Sarah Joynes, Barbara King, Sam King, Lydia Lavill, Emily Hickman, Hannah Parker, Olivia Potts, Freya Poulton, Charlotte Poulton-Dowen, Lucy Pritchard, Abbie Rai, Jenni Rullan, Abbie Sellick, Emma Shackleton, Val Simpkiss, Kimberley Smith, Chris Spittle, Chloe Thomas, Bethany Wilcox, Lucy Wilcox, John Arnold, Matt Cullis, Phillip Field, Colin Hunt, Lewis Mansell, Roger Stokes, Carl Willets, Nat Williams, Matt Wirtz
Non-acting members23
Brenda Arnold, Peter Arnold, Dorothy Copson, Terry Corbett, Chris Dowen, Meg Dowen, Colette Forsyth, Jill Hodgkins, Sidney Hodgkins, Christine Hunt, Trevor Law, Alan Merrick, Betty Merrick, Alan Pooler, Andy Poulton, Tamason Poulton, Nikki Rai, Megan Rai, Pat Small, Bryan Smith, Eileen Southall, Brian White, Wendy White
What the reviewers wrote
Short extracts only. The full notices remain the work of the writers and the papers that published them.
“It has cost 21,000 pounds to stage this excellent show which includes many scene changes, colourful costumes, a realistic twister storm and even tap dancing.”
Photographs
See all 30 photographs from Wizard of Oz
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