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Audiences will go "somewhere over the rainbow" when they take a Journey Through Oz on April 20-23 at 7:30pm in the A.A. Fredrick's Auditorium.
Ashley Syll, a sophomore theater major and stage manager for A Journey Through Oz, said the play has the same situations of the movie but has more characters and a different concept of how characters are brought into the world of Oz.
A Journey Through Oz takes the audience through Dorothy's quest of wanting to read The Wizard of Oz, which is not her reading list at school. Dorothy's teacher decides the whole class should read ...Read More
Audiences will go "somewhere over the rainbow" when they take a Journey Through Oz on April 20-23 at 7:30pm in the A.A. Fredrick's Auditorium.
Ashley Syll, a sophomore theater major and stage manager for A Journey Through Oz, said the play has the same situations of the movie but has more characters and a different concept of how characters are brought into the world of Oz.
A Journey Through Oz takes the audience through Dorothy's quest of wanting to read The Wizard of Oz, which is not her reading list at school. Dorothy's teacher decides the whole class should read the book and do a project on it. The class is not happy about that, and Dorothy is left to read the book alone. Dorothy falls asleep and is sucked into the book and into the world of Oz, Syll said.
The Emerald City, the Yellow Brick Road, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and the Wicked Witch all still exist. There will be additional characters æ two mice who are the Lion's sidekicks. They are Queen Mouse, who is queen of the field mice, and Piedra who is the dumbfounded sidekick, Syll said.
"The Wicked Witch also has sidekicks called the Winkies who are under the Wicked Witches spell," Syll said.
Jarrad Baker, a freshman theater major, will be playing the role of the Cowardly Lion. He said his character is not much different from the one in the movie, but he does bring his own unique personality to the character.
People should not come and expect to see the movie because; it is not the movie, Baker said.
Robert Patrick Robinson, a sophomore theater major, is playing the role of the Tin Man. He said his character is much colder towards the other characters then the Tin Man in the movie. As the play advances, he becomes warmer towards the other characters.
"I think that the writing form for my character is better in this version," Robinson said.
Luke Sexton, a senior theater major, playing the role of the Scarecrow, said his character has a British/Australian accent, and that is what makes him different from the one in the movie.
What makes this play unique is that a student wrote the script, Sexton said.
Jacob Justice, the writer of A Journey Through Oz, said when he was asked to write an version of the Wizard of Oz, he was excited and had to write two scripts before he was finally satisfied with the final product.
Justice said he came up with the playground theme because all kids have playgrounds where they can imagine.
"We wanted to make the coolest playground in the world," Justice said. "The best thing about this production is seeing little parts of you in each character."
Justice said that he wants for this play to show the audience that reading can be an adventure. He wants it to pull people's creativity out and make them think they can do more in life.
There will be a 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. performance for the schools and a 7:30 p.m. performance for anyone else.
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