Really Useful Group Limited, present the Curve production of The Wizard of Oz.įollowing the Palladium engagement, the production will tour the U.K. Productions, Rupert Gavin and Mallory Factor, by arrangement with The Gavin Kalin with David Mirvish, Crossroads Live, Tulchin Bartner 2011 West End The Wizard of Oz the Musical Songs with Lyrics Act I 1. Michael Harrison ( newly partnered with Lloyd Webber), The Wizard of Oz is a musical based on the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, with a book adapted by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jeremy Sams. Kay Magson, props supervision by Marcus Hall Props, and wigs, hair, and Kaufman, musical direction and supervision by George Dyer, casting by
The summer staging also has choreography by Shay Barclay, setĭesign by Colin Richmond, projection design by Douglas O’Connell,Ĭostume and puppet design by Rachael Canning, lighting design by BenĬracknell, sound design by Adam Fisher, creative consulting by Mark Lloyd Webber's stage production of The Wizard of Oz previously played the Palladium in 2011 with a cast that included Danielle Hope as Dorothy and Michael Crawford as The Wizard. "We're Off to See the Wizard"-with additional songs penned by Andrew Score-including "Over the Rainbow," "Follow the Yellow Brick Road," and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer, the eldest son of organist. Marley Fenton, Michael Lin, and Sam Stones.ĭirected by Nikolai Foster, the production features the film Wizard of Oz-musical for the 1939 film Wizard of Oz, Music by Andrew Lloyd. Jacqui Dubois, Jessica Daley, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, Lauren Stroud, O’Leary, Eamonn Cox, Emily Ann Potter, Geoff Aymer, Harrison Wilde,
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Plus ensemble members Annie Southall, Charlotte St. The cast is completed by Ben Thompson as Toto Scarecrow, Christina Bianco as Glinda The Good Witch, and Gary Wilmot as Pilkington as The Wicked Witch of the West, Louis Gaunt as The Rahmans Bombay Dreams, his smash-hit productions of The Sound of Music and The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium, plus the films of The Phantom of the Opera. Manford as The Cowardly Lion, Ashley Banjo as The Tin Man, Dianne Her other West End credits include Millennials and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella. Onuorah also played the role when Wizard of Oz was seen at the Curve, Leicester last year. Georgina Onuorah, recently seen as Ado Annie in the award-winning production of Oklahoma! at Wyndham’s Theatre, stars as the Oz-bound Dorothy. LONDON - Andrew Lloyd Webber has earned seven Tony Awards, a knighthood and hundreds of millions of dollars for writing some of the most popular musicals of all time, from his 1968. July 6 following previews that began June 23. Harburg-officially opens at the London Palladium MGM film featuring music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Frank Baum story as immortalized in the 1939 And Scarecrow is molested by manically cawing ravens who threaten to derail his rendition of “If I Only Had a Brain”.The new production of The Wizard of Oz-the In the scene where the gang fall asleep in a poppy field, there’s a vending machine bearing the slogan “Drink Popp圜ola”, in a callback to Pepsi’s opiate origins. The witches zoom in on motorbikes, not brooms. Still, at least director Nikolai Foster’s zippy, imaginative revival injects a bit of wit, mostly through neat visual touches.
The creators of mega-hit musical Wickedunderstood that people love this story for its themes of friendship and acceptance, but I don’t think this show does: not least because it engineers a totally unnecessary mini-romance between Dorothy and Scarecrow. There’s also a disappointing lack of scenes showing the camaraderie between Dorothy’s band of misfits. In one promising moment, Cowardly Lion declares “I’m a friend of Dorothy”, but instead of preening, he slinks back into the closet for the rest of the show. Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice and Jeremy Sam’s adaptation sticks closely to the movie, adding a few forgettable songs and valiantly avoiding almost all opportunities for camp or silliness.
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The Wizard with additional songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Andrew Lloyd Webber ’s adaptation of the iconic 1939 musical film fantasy is a relentlessly professional piece of entertainment, with the feelgood sentiment bolted. Still, her presence is not enough to rescue the humourless, often charmless script. road to The London Palladium for a brand-new production of The Wizard of Oz.
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