The Wizard of Oz Anderson Center for the Arts November 10

If you go

When: seven p.m. Nov. 11 to xv, and 3 p.m. Nov. xvi.

Where: Anderson High Schoolhouse Performing Arts Heart, 1471 Ferry St. in Anderson.

Price: Tickets are bachelor for $12, $10 for seniors and students from five to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday at Anderson High, 1471 Ferry St., at the Anderson Union High School District office behind the schoolhouse, Graphic Emporium at 1525 Pine Street and Bernie'due south Guitar at 3086 Bechelli Lane in Redding, and the NCG 1 Finish Music Shop at 2337 Balls Ferry Route in Anderson.

Information: Call 365-2741, extension 1671 or visit world wide web.andersoncubs.com

The stage version of L. Frank Baum's classic children's book "The Wizard of Oz" whirls into Anderson on Tuesday at Anderson Loftier Schoolhouse's Performing Arts Center. Students from Anderson and West Valley high schools collaborated on the musical production.

"It's a cute musical that everyone knows and loves," said drama director Debra Sutter of Redding, who teaches drama and English at W Valley High School. "With 25 scene changes information technology's a claiming. We are actually looking forward to flying the monkeys, the witch and Glenda."

ZFX Flight Furnishings of New York City has been called in to make sure the witch, the monkeys and Dorothy fly, said production manager and Redding resident Debbie Schlueter. The actors will have special rehearsals on the equipment.

"Rehearsals for some of these kids are iv days a calendar week and often until 7 or viii p.grand.," Schlueter said. "Still they pull (B averages) and higher up. You practise non see whatever kids missing rehearsals, and nosotros are talking about most 100 kids. The forty middle- and elementary-historic period kids are there at least two days a week and that means their parents are there, too."

Students from rival high schools have come up together and formed lasting friendships, Schlueter said.

"(The students) dearest the fact that i minute they get to exist a munchkin and the next minute they are a tree," said Anderson Nancy Dutton, music teacher/music managing director for Anderson High School. "There is a lot of opportunity for the chorus in this show to play a lot of different parts. "I keep telling them, 'It's non the amount of lines in the evidence this twelvemonth: It's the amount of costume changes that make you a big part of the evidence.' "

Ages of students range from 8 to 18, Schlueter said.

"Nosotros rehearse from iii p.thousand. to eight p.m. with seven different directors," Dutton said. "We take a vocal manager who coaches and blocks the lead musical numbers, two choreographers who work with the dancers, two children'southward chorus directors, a drama director coaches and blocks the leads, and then I work with the chorus two to 4 days a calendar week on vocals and block all the big numbers. It's a large squad for a large show. "

There are most 95 students in the cast and twenty to 30 in the coiffure, Dutton said.

Anderson High senior Nicole Wilson, 18, plays the lead part of Dorothy. Wilson has acted in plays since the historic period of 8 when she played the queen in "Sleeping Beauty."

"I dearest how everything begins in a real world scenario then I go dropped into my imagination," said Wilson of her character.

Dutton said she selected the play because of her love for the music and dialog, and because it is "a favorite of children and adults around the earth."

"My favorite song in the world is 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow,'" Dutton said. "My favorite line is, 'and your little canis familiaris besides.'...and you get to wing monkeys!"

"I got into drama because I like taking on a grapheme'southward personality, fifty-fifty if it'south completely opposite of my own," said Anderson High senior Jake Rittinghaus, 17, who plays the Cowardly Lion. "It'south like taking a vacation from my existent life. I was originally going to be on tech crew for the musical this year. So I heard it was the "Sorcerer of Oz," and I jumped at the opportunity.

Westward Valley senior Danielle Leuck, 17, plays Glenda, the Good Witch of the Northward.

"I started doing drama because I love to sing," Leuck said. "(The play) is a lot of hard work, simply everyone is very talented and nosotros all accept a great fourth dimension together."

"My biggest hurdle is to get the parents involved," Schlueter said. "There are a handful that will ever exist there for the show and for their kids, but there are others that due to money, jobs, etc., just can't give the time. We require that parents volunteer some... time and we need more than they tin give."

"This is our 11th year of doing musicals at Anderson High School and I think that it is a tradition that is here to stay," Dutton said.

News assistant Jessica Skropanic tin can be reached at 225-8265 or eastward-mail at jskropanic@redding.com.

Well-nigh Jessica Skropanic

News Assistant Jessica Skropanic edited academic journals at university later attention a charter high school for journalism and creative writing. While educational activity folklore she was the faculty editor of her university's literary journal and began freelance travel writing. She was managing editor for a travel/lifestyle magazine earlier she came to the Record Searchlight to acquire the paper biz. She works with events, travel, features and outdoors.

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