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Review: A Wiz made for kids glitters at First Stage

March 22, 2010

ThirdCoast Digest
Peggy Sue Dunigan

Dorothy and her three friends are easing on down that yellow brick road to find the Big Green Apple — the Emerald City — in The Wiz. First Stage Children’s Theater has adapted the 1975 William Brown/Charles Smalls Broadway hit version of The Wizard of Oz specifically youth audiences. First Stage upholds traditions while incorporating new elements, including a new orchestration by music director Richard Carsey.  Click here for the entire article.