Friday night was a dream come true. Eric and I went with our new youth director John to see one of our youth in the Kentwood production of 'The Wizard of Oz". I am so wonderfully in love with The Wizard of Oz that I was giddy like a three year old, but no doubt I had reservations of a high school's capabilities to put on my favorite production without it being completely painful to watch, because let's face it, if it was anything like our high school productions they were usually half assed by everyone involved.
Let me just say I was pleasantly surprised by Kentwood. They knocked this out of the park! It was such a wonderful rendition of a show I already love! Haley was the girl we were going to support and I happened to nab this photo of her marching and singing in Munchkinland. She's the one in the blue dress and white apron on the far left hand side; and that's Glinda the good witch of the North in the middle!
She also played a Poppy which was a really cool scene where the poppies were played by girls dancing and putting Dorothy & Lion to sleep; and she was a Ozian with a wonderful outfit completely green!
The four main Characters: Tinman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and Dorothy... Oh yeah and Toto... this puppy stole the show for sure! He was really well trained.
Here's the Wicked witch of the West with Toto .... she did get Dorothy's little dog too! (Don't worry it ended well). And the Scary flying Monkey in the back? That's another youth of ours James. We were pleasantly surprised to see he was in the show and he was an amazing flying monkey... sans wings.
The cast over all was great - I have a few nit picky things that I didn't LOVE... but that's because I'm a Wizard of Oz perfectionist... and I'm not going to discredit this show because of my fanaticism.If you get a chance to go see their show... DO! I might go see it again!
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