The friendly admission panel asks her questions only to determine that, while her general interest in every subject is commendable, her lack of a specific passion makes her unfit to begin her college journey with them at this time. The story begins with Dorothy (Kara Davidson), accompanied by hand-puppet Toto (Joey Steakley), visiting a college to interview to become a student. My lasting impression: Why was this made? However, for a classic tale that was epitomized in its Broadway and film productions and has since gone on to saturate our American culture this charmingly cute production with a “modern twist” brings nothing remarkably new to experience: the Broadway hits are absent, replaced by a few lame indi-folk ballads and the story itself is strangely circuitous, plodding, and lacking in dramatic excitement. An elaborate set design (by Collette Pollard) complete with life-size puppets (designed by Jesse Mooney-Bullock) and actual flying monkeys (choreographed by Ryan Bourque) give this staging an uncommonly high production value. Frank Baum’s book with a “modern twist”-returned this past week to close their 15 th season. Frank Baum’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Ozįirst produced in their 3 rd season, The House Theatre of Chicago’s The Great & Terrible Wizard of Oz-their own adaptation of L.
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