The Wizard Of Oz – The Classic Movie Musical Live On Stage

Feb. 12, 2014 - PRLog -- From the producers behind the UAE’s biggest sell out musicals such as ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’, ‘Oliver!’ and the award winning ‘The Sound of Music’ comes a spectacular new production of the legendary musical THE WIZARD OF OZ – running for nineteen performances over two weeks in April 2014.

One of the most famous stories of all time, THE WIZARD OF OZ became legend with the Oscar winning 1939 MGM movie version starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, the young farm girl from Kansas who is transported via tornado to the magical Land of Oz. This brilliant musical stage adaptation, originally adapted by the Royal Shakespeare Company, celebrates the 75^th anniversary of the movie and features all the wonderful songs from the movie, including ‘Over the Rainbow’, ‘We’re Off to See the Wizard’ and ‘Follow The Yellow Brick Road’. Join Dorothy Gale and her little dog Toto as they journey down the yellow brick road to see the Wizard, meeting Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow along the way. It’s the perfect show for all the family.

From the UK and London’s West End the cast includes Elizabeth Carter as Dorothy Gale (Dreamcoats and Petticoats/Save the Last Dance for Me), Barnaby Thompson as Scarecrow (Chicago/Cats/Mamma Mia/We Will Rock You) Gavin Ashbarry as Cowardly Lion (Starlight Express/Joseph), James Parkes as Tin Man (Blood Brothers/Me and My Girl), stage and screen veteran Morgan Deare as the Wizard (Who Framed Roger Rabbit/Little Shop of Horrors), Lucy Hunter James as Glinda (The Sound of Music/Oliver!/Blood Brothers) and Lesley Saudi as The Wicked Witch (High School Musical/Oliver!). A wonderful ensemble of UAE performers completes the cast.

THE WIZARD OF OZ is produced by John Payton and Lucy Magee for Popular Productions. It is directed by John Payton, with choreography by Nina French, musical direction by Philip Shute, set and lighting by Ben M Rogers, costumes by Anna Saunders and sound by David Gates.

The production is sponsored in partnership with 7 Days, Radio 2 (Official Radio Partner), Expatwoman (Online Partner), Dubai Calendar, Inglot, Dubai Night Planner, Connector and in support of K9 Friends.

Official website: www.wizardofozlive.com

Official facebook: facebook.com/popularproductions

‘The Wizard of Oz’

By L. Frank Baum

With Music and Lyrics of the MGM motion picture score

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 John Payton

Presented by arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc

Listing Information

PERFORMANCES

Thursday 3^rd April – Friday 18^th April 2014

The Madinat Theatre, Souk Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai

3^rd, 4^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 14^th, 15^th, 16^th, 17^th, 18^th April at 7:30pm

4^th, 11^th at 2:30pm

5th, 12^th at 1pm and 6pm

Book online at:

www.wizardofozlive.com

www.madinattheatre.com(choose your seats)

http://www.itp.net/tickets/

Or in person at the theatre box office at Souk Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai

Ticket Prices:

All performances priced at 200AED per ticket

Press Enquiries

Lucy Magee at lm@popularproductions.com

ABOUT POPULAR PRODUCTIONS LTD

ABOUT THE PRODUCERS

Popular Productions is an international producer of quality theatre and entertainment with over thirty major productions to its name.  Based in London and Dubai its producers are Lucy Magee & John Payton.

Most recently the company presented ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ to huge success. This followed a Middle East tour of ‘The Woman in Black’ at the ‘First Group Theatre’ in Dubai and the ‘Al Jaheli Theatre’ in Abu Dhabi. Preceding this was the Timeout Dubai Nightlife Award winning production of ‘The Sound of Music’ at the Bahrain Summer Festival, BIECC. This followed the sell-out production of ‘OLIVER!’ (First Group Theatre). Other productions include: The UAE premiere of Stephen King’s horror ‘Misery’ starring UK TV and West End’s Darren Day and Yvonne O’Grady (First Group Theatre).

The 2011 record-breaking sell out production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ‘The Sound of Music’ (First Group Theatre) and the Middle East premiere of Disney’s new musical ‘Camp Rock’ (First Group Theatre). Other productions include: ‘When Harry Met Sally’ (First Group Theatre ‘Fame’ (First Group Theatre), ‘Blood Brothers’, (First Group Theatre), ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (First Group Theatre)’ ‘Stones in His Pockets’ (First group Theatre & Centrepoint Theatre, DUCTAC), ‘Disney High School Musical 2’ (Centrepoint Theatre, DUCTAC), ‘Annie’ (Madinat Theatre),‘Disney High School Musical’ (Centrepoint Theatre, DUCTAC), ‘Blues Brothers Unlimited’, (Centrepoint Theatre, DUCTAC); John Godber's comedy 'Teechers' (http://www.popularproductions.co.uk/teechers.htm) and Neil Simon's comedy musical 'They're Playing Our Song' (Madinat Theatre), Willy Russell's 'Educating Rita' (http://www.popularproductions.co.uk/edrita.htm), (Madinat Theatre); The hit London revival of the West End comedy musical 'I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change' (http://www.popularproductions.co.uk/lpcdubai.htm), (West End and Dubai); John Osborne's classic play 'Look Back in Anger' (http://www.popularproductions.co.uk/lookbackinanger.htm) (Madinat Theatre) and the critically acclaimed production of Stephen King's thriller 'Misery' (http://www.popularproductions.co.uk/misery.htm) which starred Susan Penhaligon and Michael Praed (Kings Head Theatre, London).

For more information on the company please see www.popularproductions.com