The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s multi-million pound production of The Wizard of Oz starring Over The Rainbow winner Danielle Hope as Dorothy, Michael Crawford as the Wizard, Hannah Waddingham as the Wicked Witch of the West and Paul Keating as the Scarecrow.
The show will start performances on 7 February 2011 at the London Palladium
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Lord Webber is producing the show, following his search for a Dorothy in BBC One’s Over The Rainbow.
The first stage version of L Frank Baum’s classic book was in 1902 starring Anna Laughlin. The 1939 MGM film starring Judy Garland is the most famous version of the show, and was adapted into a stage musical in 1945 by Frank Gabrielson for the St. Louis Municipal Opera. In 1987 the RSC produced a new stage musical version which was much closer to the film, and starred Imelda Staunton as Dorothy, who was nominated for an Olivier award for Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actress in a Musical.
Andrew Lloyd Webber will look to add some new songs to the stage show: “The film worked fantastically but we need some new songs for the stage show”, said Lloyd Webber.
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