Scottsdale Preparatory Academy is proud to present:
THE WIZARD OF OZ
By L. Frank Baum
With Music and Lyrics
by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg
Background Music by Herbert Stothart
Dance and Vocal Arrangements by Peter Howard
Orchestration by Larry Wilcox
Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company
Based upon the Classic Motion Picture owned by
Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed in all media by
Warner Bros.
Directed by : Anna Chasse Clement
Musical Diretor: Robin Neely
Choreographer and set designer: Thomas Underdal
Assistant Director and Musical Director/ Master of Puppetry: Rita Litchfield-Good
Little Dorothy Gale of Kansas, like so many girls her age, often dreams of what may lie over the rainbow. One day a tornado hits her home town and carries her away to Munchkinland - at the end of the rainbow.
The Munchkins fete Dorothy as a heroine. Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas and seeks the help of the kind Sorceress of the North. Only the great Wizard of Oz, says the Sorceress, can help Dorothy get back to Kansas.
Dorothy persuades three friends to accompany her on the trip to the Emerald City to see the Wizard. They are Scarecrow, who lacks a brain, 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 vows vengeance on Dorothy and does all she can to stop the friends getting to the Emerald City. The Wizard offers them the chance for all of their dreams to come true-if they complete the impossible.
The well-known score includes some of the best loved songs in the American musical pantheon.
Some Where over the Rainbow
If I only had...a Brain...A heart...The Nerve
We're off to see the Wizard
Merry Old Land of Oz