THE WIZARD OF OZ
DANIEL EVANS AND KATHY BOURNE PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHAN PERSSON
WELCOME
A warm welcome to our Christmas production of The Wizard of Oz. Chichester Festival Youth Theatre always put their all into every production, but the two shows they’ve presented in 2019 must be among the most ambitious they’ve ever tackled. This summer saw them promenading Crossing Lines, a new play by Anna Ledwich, through the streets of Chichester: the result of a unique development process that placed young people at its heart, juxtaposing the city’s history with up-to-date digital technology. It proved to be a compelling evening, fully justifying the faith placed in CFYT to deliver such an innovative production. Whereas Crossing Lines was new in every sense, The Wizard Of Oz is a classic that celebrates its 80th birthday this year. But, as its director Lucy Betts and some of the young company explain in this programme, it’s an equally challenging
prospect in terms of the performing skills it demands. We are fortunate that once again, set designer Simon Higlett and costume designer Ryan Dawson Laight are among the outstanding professional creatives working on the show. CFYT involves 800 young people who meet weekly at the Festival Theatre and at eight satellite groups across West Sussex. Students from 172 different schools, colleges and academies across three counties are represented, including specialist provision for young people with complex additional needs. Participants mix with a broad range of peers from different geographical, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds; 12% of the membership benefit from bursary placements. Increasing access to the arts for people of all ages is at the heart of our work and is why our Ageless campaign is so important. We’d love you to get involved. We hope you enjoy today’s performance and wish you a very Happy Christmas and New Year.
Executive Director Kathy Bourne
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THE WIZARD OF OZ By L. Frank Baum With Music and Lyrics of the MGM motion picture score by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg Background Music by Herbert Stothart Dance and Vocal Arrangements by Peter Howard Adapted by John Kane from the motion picture screenplay
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WIZARD AT 80 It’s 80 years since Judy Garland was whirled away from the Kansas prairie to a magical land ‘over the rainbow’, and an icon of silver screen history was born. This latest anniversary of the 1939 movie – like each previous one – has prompted an outpouring of commemorative merchandise and features, adding to the thousands of articles, souvenirs and tributes devoted to the film and the huge cast of creatives and actors who brought it to life. The movie was based on L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – ‘America’s greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale’, according to the US Library of Congress. Extravagant stage versions in Chicago and on Broadway soon followed. But it was MGM’s lavish musical film which established The Wizard of Oz as a phenomenon; although it was poorly reviewed and lost money on its original release, it’s become the most-watched movie of all time thanks to its many television showings from 1956 onwards. It has spawned philosophical, psychological and economic treatises, and hugely successful off-shoots such as the Motown version The Wiz and prequel musical Wicked. Its cult status rivals the likes of the science fiction franchises,
with devotees who attend conventions, pursue rival loyalties and obsessively collect souvenirs. Dorothy’s ruby slippers, for example, are now among the most famous, valuable – and consequently oft-faked – historic film memorabilia. At least seven pairs, possibly more, of the hand-sequinned pumps were originally made; in 2005, a pair was stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in the actress’s home town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota and only recovered by the FBI in 2018. The identity of the culprit – and the slippers’ whereabouts in the intervening 13 years – remain a mystery. The ruby slippers on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington DC are actually a mismatched pair, one being slightly bigger than the other. Each shoe is covered with red satin, to which 2,300 sequins are applied; an added layer of red felt on the sole was meant to muffle the sound of her dancing on the yellow brick road. Nominated for six Academy Awards, the film won two for its music but was beaten to the Best Picture prize by Gone with the Wind. ‘Over the Rainbow’, which won the Oscar for Best Song, was almost left on the cutting room floor: some producers thought it too sophisticated for a teenage girl to sing in a farmyard.
(One number that didn’t make it into the film, ‘The Jitterbug’, is restored in all its glory to this production.) The original choice to play Dorothy was Shirley Temple, then aged 11, but her voice wasn’t up to the demands of the score. The role went instead to the 16 year-old Judy Garland and shot her to stardom. Her later evergreen movies include Meet Me in St Louis and A Star Is Born but she won her only Academy Award, an honorary Oscar for ‘outstanding performance by a screen juvenile’, jointly for her roles in The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms. Perhaps ironically, while The Wizard of Oz has been celebrating its 80th anniversary, 2019 has also seen the release of Judy, a big screen adaptation of the play End of the Rainbow, with Renée Zellweger giving an acclaimed performance in a (somewhat fictionalised) portrayal of Garland’s chaotic final concerts in London, just months before her premature death. 30 years after The Wizard of Oz, the film depicts the exhausted, broke and drugaddicted singer haunted by the exploitative abuse handed out to her as a teenager on the set of the movie. So much for history. But what is The Wizard of Oz’s appeal for the creative team and young LUCY BETTS IN THE LAND OF OZ 1999 IMAGE COURTESY OF MIKE EDDOWES
actors involved in this new CFYT production? Those with long memories may recall that it’s not the first time that the Youth Theatre has tackled the story. In 1999, Lucy Betts, who is directing this production, played Dorothy in The Land of Oz, a summer promenade show directed by Dale Rooks – now Director of Learning, Participation and Education at CFT, but back then Head of Performing Arts at St Cuthman’s School where the play was staged. In 2003, the year Dale joined Chichester Festival Theatre full-time, she chose The Wizard of Oz as CFYT’s first Christmas show on the Festival Theatre stage, so in a sense it has come full circle. ‘The Youth Theatre show goes from strength to strength every year; and for the past few years it’s been an adaptation or a play with music that’s been specially composed for them,’ Lucy Betts says. ‘So to have something like this full musical version of Oz, that is pre-existing and so iconic, is a huge challenge in itself. ‘It’s not about creating something new from scratch, it’s taking something that is already so known to the general public and saying right, how do we own it, how do we put the CFYT stamp on it? Why is it still a story that we need to tell?’
Most-watched movie of all time it may be, but does that actually hold true for young people today? ‘When Lucy asked the company at the start of rehearsals, “Who’s seen the film?”, 66 out of 68 hands went up,’ says Georgina Liley, 20, who plays Miss Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West (and, for good measure, a farmhand, a poppy and a Winkie). She, however, was one of the minority. ‘I watched it for the first time this summer before auditions, I’m ashamed to say! I just haven’t watched many classic films.’ Among those who know it well are 12 year-old Edward Bromell, who appears as a Munchkin and a Winkie – ‘I was quite familiar with it, we had the DVD’ – and Polly Maltby and Ella O’Keeffe, who share the role of Dorothy. ‘I watched it when I was younger – it’s a classic – but I’d forgotten certain things that I’m really excited to do now,’ says 17 year-old Polly. ‘I didn’t want it to influence me too much so I watched it again once after I found out I’d got the part of Dorothy; but I’m not going to watch it again until after the show has finished.’ ‘Are you not?’ exclaims Ella, who’s 16. ‘I watched it about four times before the audition and I’ve been watching it every other weekend! I’m like, let’s watch it again!’ ‘It’s certainly true to say I’d never seen anything like it before’, Georgina remarks. ‘It had such a massive cultural influence as well. When it goes from the black and white of Kansas to the Technicolour of Oz – that’s such an iconic moment in film-making history. It was amazing to watch that having never seen it before and knowing how impressive that would have been at the time.’ ‘It’s a really bizarre storyline but really ELLA O’KEEFFE
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exciting,’ adds Edward. The four have appeared in previous CFYT shows – Ella has notched up an impressive seven appearances – but all agree it’s one of the most challenging to date, mainly due to the full-scale choreography and complex music the show demands. ‘This is the most difficult yet. It’s not like just doing a dance part or an acting part, it’s so mixed and full-on,’ says Ella, while Edward notes ‘The Munchkins have a really high energy musical sequence. Basically the whole time we’re on stage we’re singing and dancing.’ The production reunites set designer Simon Higlett and costume designer Ryan Dawson Laight, who’ve created memorably magical designs for previous CFYT shows. But with the look of the film so firmly implanted in many people’s minds, how have they approached this Wizard? ‘In terms of style and choreography, we’re grounding it in the 1920s and 30s, which is a beautiful era to be looking at in terms of design,’ says Lucy Betts. ‘It harks back to the traditional – we’re not turning ruby slippers into converse sneakers or anything – but it will have our own special stamp on it. The design plays with the idea that Dorothy’s banged her head and it’s all a dream. ‘We went back to the source material and looked at American history. In the book Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are incredibly poor – they live in a one-room shack, then there’s this huge twister and the farm is ruined. What immediately jumped out to me was the stock market crash of 1929 and the dust bowl crisis within agricultural society throughout the 1930s. Oz, ‘over the rainbow’, becomes the
American Dream: the financial boom, the roaring 20s when everything seemed perfect but it was all completely fake and ready to come tumbling down.’ Lucy is in no doubt as to why The Wizard of Oz still chimes with audiences in 2019. ‘It’s the idea that it portrays of people thinking, I’ll be happy when this happens, things will be better if I run away and find something else – If I only had a brain, If I only had a heart – rather than being completely in the moment and then realising maybe you already have the capacity to do that all along.’ Georgina agrees: ‘People think those thoughts in real life – the grass is greener. Dorothy wants to be ‘somewhere there isn’t any trouble’. But when she’s thrown into this mad, brand new world, all she wants is to go back home.’ ‘It’s so relatable to real life’, says Ella. ‘You do get scared and want more than you can have. The whole thing of ‘I’ll be happy if...’ It’s a reminder that you don’t need everything to be happy. I like the moral behind it.’ Polly adds, ‘Like Dorothy specifically, all of us have been in our teen years where we feel like we haven’t got enough, then you look around you and realise it’s actually not too bad.’ The conversation turns inevitably to ‘Over the Rainbow’, which embodies this desire. ‘It’s not exactly a cry for help, but her knowing that she wants some place better but she doesn’t know what that is,’ says Polly. ‘It’s funny because there’s a reprise of the song later on, when she’s in Oz and she’s absolutely stuck again and feels there’s no way out. Her singing this song is like telling the audience...’ ‘...that it’s not always best to wish for JESSIE PAGE-SMITH POLLY MALTBY
something you can’t have,’ Ella picks up. ‘It’s ‘be careful what you wish for’ really. Because it ends up worse than she thinks it is.’ ‘But it all works out in the end!’, Polly reminds us. Just how daunting is it for Polly and Ella, following in the footsteps of Judy Garland? ‘Terrifying!’ says Polly. ‘She’s one of my favourite performers; her voice is beautiful and she started so young, she is iconic in herself.’ Ella nods, adding ‘We watched Judy the other day and because she obviously didn’t have the best experience when she was doing it, I feel so grateful to be doing it with people who really care about us. It’s pure enjoyment.’ ‘Yes, we’re not with people who make us take pills and be a certain weight, we can just be us’, Polly says. It’s a theme that, unprompted, each of the young actors is keen to emphasise. ‘I love the way you make really good friends in the Youth Theatre; when you’re seeing them every day you’re really connected and it’s like a family,’ Edward enthuses. So it seems that, generations on, the power of the film – with its tale of impossible dreams, wild adventures, courageous journeys and ultimate message ‘There’s no place like home’ – remains undimmed. As Renée Zellweger’s ravaged but defiant Judy Garland says of the song with which she became indelibly associated: ‘It’s about hope. And we all need some of that.’ LUCINDA MORRISON
LARA PERRI EDWARD BROMELL AMY BORBONE
IMAGINING A WORLD IN TECHNICOLOUR
Dorothy
Costume designer Ryan Dawson Laight shows us some of his wonderful creations, re-imagining costumes for those well-known and loved characters.
Lion
“The challenging thing about designing The Wizard of Oz is that there are so many characters, after that the difficulty is about creating an aesthetic world that they can all sit side by side in. I really enjoy designing big shows, the payoff is seeing large groups of people that all tie into the same world all moving in time together.�
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“This production is a fait hful adaptation of the 1939 MGM classic film and it’s hard not to take inspirati on from that as it’s so well known. I grew up with the film and I think to ignore it entirely is impossible, also audiences want to see some of those key iconic images.”
Munchkin “Without doubt the concep t that was the most fun to come up with was the Munchkins! Once I realise d that they are mostly walking Tourist Informati on Centres they were very easy to imagine!”
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Jit t erb ug “Just like in the film, colour was a big part of designing the costumes. Our director Lucy Betts was very clear that we should use specific colours for each group of people we meet along the journey. I always start with a colour pallet when designing so this was particularly useful.”
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THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME Can you get Dorothy through the maze and back to her home in Kansas?
MAKE YOUR OWN TOTO! Here’s how to make your own Toto using just a square of paper and a pen!
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WORDSEARCH Find the 12 words hidden below. Words can be found forwards, up, down and diagonally! DOROTHY TOTO TINMAN
J X O A N R A E V F A R A D F W P
R Z Q G A X L A P Z K I O Z A G Q
SCARECROW LION MUNCHKIN
B W W A O G L I N D A A P A W U A
G I D F U A I P A L A C M I S A G
A N A M L G U G N I K H C N U M S
L K A A I R B A K C A K A B J A I
H I R D O R O T H Y E C Q G W G Y
D E A A N A S D A D A Z R F H C N
WICKED WITCH WIZARD KANSAS
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I P N J T A A I A U O A A L G K A
D G B T Z X T I N M A N A N A E R
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RAINBOW WINKIE GLINDA
K F A Y Z G A T A K R F I M X A S
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THE CAST
Funmi Ajayi
Tewogbola Ajayi
Edward Bromell
Eva Buckler
Isobel Buckler
Evie Carter
Richard Chapman
Chelsie Clarke
Ellie Dickens
Olivia Dickens
Spencer Dixon
Patrick Durand
Olivia Edwards-Cox
Esme Foster
Charlotte Hatton
Madeline Haywood
Jessica Hodgson
Hester Johnson-Cadwell
Rory Leggett
Georgina Liley
Celia Mayne
Declan McCarthy
Keira McGuiness
Verity McKay
Amberley Norris-Warton
Ella O'Keeffe
Emily Sammut
Alfie Scott
Barnaby Scutts
Izzy Smith
Lael Smith
Riley Stroud
Samantha Akomeah
Indigo Ashworth
Alfie Ayling
Lily Barkes
Amy Borbone
Tamsin Brazier
Florence Clarke
Joe Clines
Georgia Cornell
Sydney Craddock
Emilia Curtis
Honami Davies
Anna Foye
Maddie Gadeke
Lyla Garner-Gibbons
Tilly Gates
Amy Glenister
George Goldsmith
Harvey Lodge
Isobel Lunn
Thomas Lunn
Grace Lyon
Polly Maltby
Oscar Marjoram
Luc Oratis
Jessie Page-Smith
Alice Pendry
Lara Perri
Eva Phiasanaxay
Lewis Renninson
Isaac Sturge
Scarlett Taylor-Jones
Thomas Uren
Martha Waddington
Ruari Watt
Rosie Wharton
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THE WIZARD OF OZ By L. Frank Baum With Music and Lyrics of the MGM motion picture score by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg Background Music by Herbert Stothart Dance and Vocal Arrangements by Peter Howard Adapted by John Kane from the motion picture screenplay
CAST (in order of appearance) Dorothy Polly Maltby / Ella O’Keeffe Toto Ellie Dickens / Jessie Page-Smith Aunt Em / Glinda Good Witch of the North Evie Carter / Anna Foye Uncle Henry / Emerald City Guard Thomas Lunn / Riley Stroud Hickory / Tin Woodsman Joe Clines / Isaac Sturge Hunk / Scarecrow Harvey Lodge / Alfie Scott Zeke / Cowardly Lion Richard Chapman / Lewis Renninson Farmhands Alfie Ayling, Florence Clarke, Joe Clines, George Goldsmith, Hester Johnson-Cadwell, Rory Leggett, Georgina Liley, Harvey Lodge, Thomas Lunn, Grace Lyon, Declan McCarthy, Luc Oratis, Alfie Scott, Barnaby Scutts, Riley Stroud, Isaac Sturge, Thomas Uren Miss Gultch / Wicked Witch of the West Florence Clarke / Georgina Liley Professor Marvel / Wizard of Oz Alfie Ayling / Luc Oratis Mayor of Munchkinland Olivia Dickens Coroner of Munchkinland Eva Buckler Barrister of Munchkinland Edward Bromell Munchkins Samantha Akomeah, Indigo Ashworth, Amy Borbone, Tamsin Brazier, Isobel Buckler, Chelsie Clarke, Honami Davies, Esme Foster, Lyla Garner-Gibbons, Charlotte Hatton, Madeline Haywood, Oscar Marjoram, Celia Mayne, Keira McGuiness, Verity McKay, Lara Perri, Martha Waddington, Ruari Watt Crows Ellie Dickens, Spencer Dixon, Patrick Durand, Amy Glenister, Jessie Page-Smith There will be one interval of twenty minutes. Produced by arrangement with, and the music and dialogue material furnished by, MusicScope, 75 Furnival Street, Crewe, Cheshire CW2 7LH, England. First performance of this production of The Wizard of Oz at Chichester Festival Theatre, 14 December 2019.
Trees Funmi Ajayi, Sydney Craddock, Maddie Gadeke, Tilly Gates, Eva Phiasanaxay, Lael Smith Poppies Tewogbola Ajayi, Florence Clarke, Georgia Cornell, Sydney Craddock, Ellie Dickens, Esme Foster, Maddie Gadeke, Tilly Gates, Amy Glenister, Jessica Hodgson, Georgina Liley, Jessie Page-Smith, Alice Pendry, Eva Phiasanaxay, Lael Smith Snowmen Funmi Ajayi, Lily Barkes, Evie Carter, Richard Chapman, Emilia Curtis, Olivia Edwards-Cox, Anna Foye, Isobel Lunn, Polly Maltby, Amberley Norris-Warton, Ella O’Keeffe, Lewis Renninson, Emily Sammut, Izzy Smith, Scarlett Taylor-Jones, Rosie Wharton Ozians Funmi Ajayi, Tewogbola Ajayi, Samantha Akomeah, Indigo Ashworth, Lily Barkes, Amy Borbone, Eva Buckler, Isobel Buckler, Evie Carter, Richard Chapman, Chelsie Clarke, Emilia Curtis, Honami Davies, Olivia Dickens, Esme Foster, Anna Foye, Maddie Gadeke, Lyla Garner-Gibbons, Charlotte Hatton, Madeline Haywood, Thomas Lunn, Oscar Marjoram, Celia Mayne, Keira McGuiness, Verity McKay, Alice Pendry, Lara Perri, Eva Phiasanaxay, Lewis Renninson, Riley Stroud, Martha Waddington, Ruari Watt Winkie General Hester Johnson-Cadwell Winkies Alfie Ayling, Edward Bromell, Florence Clarke, Joe Clines, Spencer Dixon, Patrick Durand, Olivia Edwards-Cox, George Goldsmith, Rory Leggett, Georgina Liley, Harvey Lodge, Isobel Lunn, Grace Lyon, Amberley Norris-Warton, Luc Oratis, Emily Sammut, Alfie Scott, Izzy Smith, Isaac Sturge, Thomas Uren, Rosie Wharton Nikko Declan McCarthy Monkeys Tamsin Brazier, Barnaby Scutts Jitterbugs Tewogbola Ajayi, Georgia Cornell, Sydney Craddock, Ellie Dickens (Dance Captain), Maddie Gadeke, Tilly Gates, Amy Glenister, Jessica Hodgson, Polly Maltby, Ella O’Keeffe, Jessie Page-Smith (Dance Captain), Alice Pendry, Lael Smith, Scarlett Taylor-Jones By arrangement with MusicScope and Stage Musicals Limited of New York Chichester Festival Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support from the families of Youth Theatre cast and crew members. With special thanks to the following for all their support and dedication: Set built and painted by Capital Scenery, Tin Shed CNC, Paul Mathew Transport, Additional lighting by White Light, Additional sound equipment by Stage Sound Services and EM Acoustics, Rehearsal trailer by The Umbrella Rooms, Scott Cupit and Swing Patrol, Additional photography by Paul Inskip, Border Digital, Annie Davis, Nairne Fraser, Darcia Haughey, Rebecca Stisted and Arthur JJ Collibrass. Thanks to our wonderful chaperones without whom none of this would be possible: Clare Apel, Ella Bassett, Jenny Beadle, Glyn Bentley-Angell, Tracy Clayton, Simone Craddock, Mia Cunningham-Stockdale, Freddie Dempster, Ellie Edwards, Paula Glenister, Jilly Gregory, Hannah Hogg, Richard Knowles, Poppy Marples, Emily McAlpine, David McTaggart, Hannah Millard, Sue O’Keeffe, Susan Parker, Rachel Perri, Louise Rigglesford, Georgia Stephens, Becky Stuckey, Penny Thomas, Margaret Todd, Ian Wadey, Laura Wadey, Emma Jayne Wyatt. Rehearsal and production photographs Helen Murray Programme design by Davina Chung Supported by The Wizard of Oz Commissioning Circle: Philip Berry, Michael and Frances Coates, Sara Kelly, Howard M Thompson, Bryan Warnett of St James’s Place, and all those who wish to remain anonymous. Sponsored by
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CREATIVE TEAM Director Lucy Betts Set Designer Simon Higlett Costume Designer Ryan Dawson Laight Lighting Designer James Whiteside Musical Director and Orchestrator Colin Billing Sound Designer Gregory Clarke Movement Director Lauren Grant Puppet Designer Charlie Tymms Puppetry Consultant Darcy Collins Vocal Coach Charmian Hoare Assistant Director Charlie Essex Assistant Musical Director Nathan Gwynne Video Designer Isaac Madge Costume Supervisor Kingsley Hall Costume Makers Katy Adeney, Charlie Baptist, Darcy Collins, Neil Crossland, Francine Huinwah, Ella Osborne, Brighde Penn, Lou Petty, Julie Sayers, Janie Stephenson, Kelsey Lianne Vickery Costume Makers - Dyeing Nicola Kileen Textiles Costume Makers - Millinery Dean Burke Hats Costume Makers - Crystals Jane White Wardrobe Supervisor Sarah Stoddard Wardrobe Assistants Lottie Higlett, Gabby Selwyn-Smith Wig and Make Up Supervisor Sonja Mohren Props Supervisor Marise Rose Props Assistant Sarah Crispin Sound No 1 Neil Rose Sound No 2 Fuzz Radio Mic Runner / Sound Apprentice Amy Clayton Lighting Programmer Laura Howells Automation Operator Ryan Pantling Production Manager John Page Company Stage Manager Sally Ann Garner-Gibbons Deputy Stage Manager Lou Bann Assistant Stage Manager Caitlin O’Reilly Apprentice Assistant Stage Manager Emily Williamson Chaperone Manager Elspeth Barron Head Chaperone Janette McAlpine
TECHNICAL YOUTH THEATRE AND STUDENTS FROM CHICHESTER COLLEGE Junior Assistant Stage Managers Lewis Champney, Zoe Lyndon-Smith, Emilie Mules, Seren Partridge Junior Props Makers Laura Hackett, Charlotte Taylor Costume, Hair and Make Up Rowan Butler, Jess Edgar, Amy Kirkman, Leo Mitchener, David Nelson, Suzanne Richardson Follow Spot Operators Laura Hackett, Poppy Hughes, Sammy Lacey Junior Radio Mic Runners Rudy Garrigoux, Charlie Harvey, Ethan Low, Finley Macknay MUSICIANS Keyboard Cello Bass Trumpet / Flugelhorn Woodwind Percussion / Orchestral Management Keyboard 2
MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE Opening: Kansas Over the Rainbow Munchkinland Munchkin Musical Sequence Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead Yellow Brick Road If I Only Had A Brain We’re Off To See The Wizard If I Only Had A Heart We’re Off To See The Wizard Lions, Tigers and Bears If I Only Had The Nerve We’re Off To See The Wizard Poppies ACT TWO Merry Old Land Of Oz King Of The Forest March Of The Winkies Jitterbug The Witch’s Castle Winkies March Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Reprise Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead - Reprise Finale Act II
Colin Billing Louise Dearsley Stephen Street Fraser Tannock Sarah Watson Mark Taylor Nathan Gwynne
BIOGRAPHIES
LUCY BETTS Director Previously at Chichester Sleeping Beauty (Festival Theatre). Lucy Betts is Creative Associate at The Watermill Theatre, where she was recently Associate Director for Kiss Me, Kate. Other recent directing credits include Euan (Chewboy Productions, winner of IYAF Best of Brighton Theatre Award 2019 and seen at Chichester Spiegeltent this autumn). Lucy was Head of Performance at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, from 2015 – 2017, having previously been Youth Theatre Leader there from 2010. In addition to programming productions throughout the year, she directed a wide range of productions for the main stage and the Mill Studio, from large scale musicals to studio productions. Directing credits at the Yvonne Arnaud included The Railway Children (also tour of railway museums), The Wizard of Oz, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Silver THE COMPANY
Sword, The Borrowers, The Secret Garden (also Gilded Balloon/Edinburgh Fringe), 1984, Animal Farm, Private Peaceful, The Little Match Girl, The Sea Child (also Gilded Balloon/Edinburgh Fringe), Oliver!, The Secret Garden, The Wind in the Willows, Forever Young (also The Space/ Edinburgh Fringe), James and the Giant Peach, Pinocchio, The Firework Maker’s Daughter, Just So Stories (also Gilded Balloon/Edinburgh Fringe), Peter Pan, The Ghosts Of Tyneham, The War Of Jenkins’ Ear, The Lark, Sophie Shadow (also Paradise Green/Edinburgh Fringe), Charlotte’s Web and Fantastic Mr Fox. Lucy graduated with a BA (Hons) in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at Roehampton University, and is a former member of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre. COLIN BILLING Musical Director / Orchestrator Previously at Chichester Musical Director for Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol and The Hundred
and One Dalmatians (Festival Theatre). Theatre credits as Musical Director include Lend Me A Tenor – The Musical (Gielgud Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth), West Side Story (RWCMD), Lift Off! (opening show at Leicester’s Curve), Chasing Fate (Birmingham Hippodrome), Marina Laslo’s Russian Romance (Barbican Hall), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Leicester Haymarket); as Musical Director/ Orchestrator Sleeping Arrangements (Landor Theatre and UK tour); as Musical Director/ Arranger Beyond Phantom (UK tour), Kaye’s the Word (New End Theatre and tour), Friends Like Us (Arts Theatre), The Maladjusted Songster (Plush Rooms San Francisco); as Musical Director/Arranger/Orchestrator The Wizard of Oz (Leicester Haymarket), Three Men In a Boat (UK tour), No One in the World (Cochrane Theatre), Brenda Bly – Teen Detective (world premiere, Bridewell Theatre); as Musical Supervisor/Arranger A Spoonful of Sherman (St James’ Theatre), Bugle Boy (UK tour), Christmas with The Salvation Army (Royal
Albert Hall); as Musical Supervisor/Orchestrator Bumblescratch (workshop and demo album), Godspell (UK tour), City of Angels (LSMT/ Bridewell Theatre). Vocal Coaching and Musical Theatre workshops include London School of Musical Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Chichester Festival Theatre, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of Warwick, University of Chichester and Big Little Theatre School of which he is Co-Founder. colinbilling.co.uk GREGORY CLARKE Sound Designer Previously at Chichester The Butterfly Lion, Sleeping Beauty, The Watsons, The Midnight Gang, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Mrs Pat, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Theatre includes The Bridges of Madison County, The Bay at Nice, Spamilton, The Gronholm Method, Barnum, The Lie,
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ The Musical (also West End), Love In Idleness, She Loves Me (Menier Chocolate Factory); Orpheus Descending (Theatr Clwyd/Menier); Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s); Twelfth Night (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); The Color Purple (Broadway); Medea, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Misterman (National Theatre); The Goat, Or Who Is Silvia? (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Truth (Wyndham’s); The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Alchemist, All’s Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Tantalus, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Journey’s End (Duke of York’s/New York, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design); Equus (Gielgud/New York, Tony Award for Best Sound Design); Welcome Home Captain Fox!, My Night With Reg, Versailles, The Night Alive, A Voyage Round My Father, The Philanthropist (Donmar); Clarence Darrow, A Flea In Her Ear, National Anthems, Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic); The Beacon, Albion, Against, The Merchant of Venice, Cloud Nine (Almeida); Shelter, THE COMPANY
Furniture, Richard III, Sive, Waiting for Godot, King of the Castle, DruidShakespeare, Brigit (Druid Theatre); The Night Alive, The Philanthropist, Pygmalion (New York); My Night With Reg, Goodnight Mister Tom, The Vortex, A Voyage Round My Father, And Then There Were None, Some Girls, What the Butler Saw (West End). CHARLIE ESSEX Assistant Director Charlie is a theatre practitioner for Chichester Festival Theatre. He was the Education Apprentice (2017-18) and now works freelance as an actor, director and drama facilitator. Credits include, as Director: STATIC, an audio murder mystery (promenade Arts Award project, Chichester Festival Theatre); as Assistant Director: Bait (anti-bullying project with Chichester Festival Theatre) and Oliver! (Phoenix Theatre and Arts Centre). Other work at Chichester includes: Project Facilitator for Playtime, Youth Theatre Leader for Year
7 group, Sound Engineer for Tapestries and Assistant Facilitator on Artists in Care Homes. Other credits include, as an actor: Journey to the Centre of the Earth (404 Productions); Isadora – I Dance What I Am (Phoenix Theatre and Arts Centre). LAUREN GRANT Movement Director Previously at Chichester Assistant Director for Beauty and the Beast and Peter Pan (Festival Theatre), Assistant Choreographer for Grimm Tales (Cass Sculpture Foundation). Theatre credits as Director include Doormats at Chichester Festival Theatre (in partnership with The Paper Birds Theatre Company) and #Getonyoursoapbox at Live Theatre Newcastle. Lauren is an alumni of Step Change, the National Theatre’s professional development and leadership programme. She has worked extensively with children and young people designing and delivering arts projects THE COMPANY
across the country including Live Theatre Newcastle, New London Performing Arts Centre and Stretton Arts Festival. Lauren studied dance at Stella Mann College of Performing Arts and Musical Theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Lauren is Deputy Director of Learning, Education and Participation (LEAP) at Chichester Festival Theatre and manages Chichester Festival Youth Theatre. NATHAN GWYNNE Assistant Musical Director Nathan trained at Big Little Theatre School. Credits whilst training include, as Assistant Musical Director, Our House; as an actor, Professor Bhaer in Little Women and Mysterious Man in Into the Woods. SIMON HIGLETT Set Designer Previously at Chichester The Butterfly Lion, The Midnight Gang, The Chalk Garden,
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The Norman Conquests, Mrs Pat, Amadeus, Stevie (also Hampstead), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Singin’ in the Rain (and world tour), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Collaboration/Taking Sides, Nicholas Nickleby (all West End transfers), A Marvellous Year for Plums, The Grapes of Wrath, The Circle, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. For CFYT: Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Current, recent and forthcoming designs: Big The Musical (West End), The Argument and Song at Twilight (Bath), Falstaff (Grange Festival), The Magic Flute (Scottish Opera), The Wizard of Oz (Leeds Playhouse), The Price (West End). Other recent designs: An Ideal Husband (West End), Racing Demon (Bath), Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company), Some Mothers THE COMPANY
Do ‘Ave ‘Em (UK tour), Schoenberg in Hollywood (Boston Lyric Opera). Other highlights: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (West Yorkshire Playhouse/tour), Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (RSC/ Chichester/West End), The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni (Scottish Opera), Blithe Spirit (West End/USA), The Force of Change (Royal Court), Derren Brown’s Infamous, Yes Prime Minister, Hayfever (all West End), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Donmar), Enemies, Whistling Psyche, The Earthly Paradise (Almeida), Singer, A Russian in the Woods, Thomas More (all RSC), Pygmalion (Old Vic). Simon has numerous credits in the West End, at all the major UK theatres and designs for opera worldwide. Awards: two TMA Best Design Awards and Helen Hayes Award (USA).
RYAN DAWSON LAIGHT Costume Designer Previously at Chichester Crossing Lines, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Grimm Tales. Theatre includes My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre, Associate Costume Design alongside Soutra Gilmore); Don Quixote, The Tempest, The Snow Queen, Peter Pan, Brave New World, Swallows and Amazons, Dracula, A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, Hamlet, Macbeth, As You Like It, Henry IV, King Lear and Treasure Island (Creation Theatre); for Le Gateau Chocolat Duckie (Royal Festival Hall), Icons (Edinburgh Festival), Black (Unity Theatre Liverpool/Soho Theatre) and Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory); HMS Pinafore, Chess, Blondel and The Mikado (Union Theatre national tours); for the Brit School Landmines (Oval House), Sticky and Infinite Joy (Southwark Playhouse); Chip Shop The Musical (Octagon Theatre Bolton); Ice Cream Opera (Freedom Arts Studio). Dance includes Botis Seva’s BLKDOG (Sadler’s Wells, Olivier Award Best New Dance 2019); Blak Whyte Gray (Boy Blue/Barbican, Olivier Award Nomination 2018); REDD (Boy Blue/Barbican Theatre); Madhead (NYDC/ Sadler’s Wells); Wasteland, Coal (Gary Clark Company, UK Theatre Award for Achievement in Dance); Toro, Mariposa, Ham and Passion (DeNada Dance Theatre); Drew McOnie’s Drunk (Leicester Curve/Bridewell Theatre) and Good Morning Midnight (Jermyn Street Theatre); Genius (Anjali); New Ways Of Living (Pink Fringe Brighton); Je Suis (Aakash Odedra Company/Lillian Baylis Studio/Sadler’s Wells); Ruffle (Carlos Pons Guerra/Rambert Dance/ Lowry Theatre); Hear Hear (Deaf Men Dancing/Sadler’s Wells). ryandawsonlaight.com Instagram @laightyboyy JAMES WHITESIDE Lighting Designer Previously at Chichester Sleeping Beauty, The Midnight Gang, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, A Marvellous Year for Plums, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Alice in Wonderland and The Snow Queen
(Festival Theatre), Miss Julie/Black Comedy, The Witches, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Wallenstein and Funny Girl (Minerva Theatre), Running Wild (Festival Theatre and UK tour). Theatre includes Torch Song (Turbine Theatre); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Southwark Playhouse/Mercury Colchester); The Art of Success, The Taste of the Town, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose, Kingston); Tango Moderno, Shirley Valentine, Love Me Tender (UK tours); The Borrowers (Sherman Theatre Cymru); Unfaithful (Found 111); The House of In Between (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Jumpy (Theatr Clwyd); The Royale, Disgraced, Fear (Bush Theatre); Deathtrap, A Voyage Round My Father (Salisbury Playhouse); The Last Tango, Dance Til Dawn, Midnight Tango, Never Forget, Footloose (West End and UK tours); The Night Before Christmas, Little Sure Shot, Salonika (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Monsieur Popular, Animal Farm (Theatre Royal, Bath); Far From the Madding Crowd (Watermill Theatre); The Dumb Waiter (Print Room); The Jungle Book (Citizens Glasgow); Stroke of Luck (Park Theatre); Bully Boy (St James Theatre); Holding the Man (Trafalgar Studios); The Female of the Species (Vaudeville); April in Paris, The Odd Couple, Moonlight and Magnolias, Twelfth Night (Perth Theatre); James and the Giant Peach (Birmingham Stage Company); The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on the Broom and The Snail and the Whale (Tall Stories Theatre Company). jameswhiteside.com
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INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT BENEFACTORS Deborah Alun-Jones Robin and Joan Alvarez David and Elizabeth Benson Philip Berry Sarah and Tony Bolton George W. Cameron OBE and Madeleine Cameron Wilfred and Jeannette Cass Sir William and Lady Castell CS and M Chadha David and Sonia Churchill John and Pat Clayton Clive and Frances Coward Jim Douglas Mrs Veronica J Dukes Melanie Edge Sir Vernon and Lady Ellis Steve and Sheila Evans Val and Richard Evans Simon and Luci Eyers Angela and Uri Greenwood Themy Hamilton Sir Michael and Lady Heller Basil Hyman Liz Juniper The family of Patricia Kemp Roger Keyworth Jonathan and Clare Lubran Selina and David Marks Mrs Sheila Meadows Jerome and Elizabeth O'Hea Philip and Gail Owen Nick and Jo Pasricha Mrs Denise Patterson Stuart and Carolyn Popham Jans Ondaatje Rolls Dame Patricia Routledge DBE Lady Sainsbury of Turville David and Sophie Shalit Jon and Ann Shapiro Simon and Melanie Shaw Greg and Katherine Slay David and Alexandra Soskin David and Unni Spiller Alan and Jackie Stannah Howard M Thompson Nicholas and Francesca Tingley Peter and Wendy Usborne Bryan Warnett of St. James's Place Ernest Yelf Lord and Lady Young TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Artswork The Arthur Williams Charitable Trust The Bateman Family Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust Elizabeth, Lady Cowdray's Charity Trust The Noël Coward Foundation The Roddick Foundation
FESTIVAL PLAYERS John and Joan Adams Dr Cheryl Adams CBE Charles and Clare Alexander Tom Reid and Lindy Ambrose Paul Arman The Earl and Countess of Balfour Matthew Bannister Mr Laurence Barker Mr James and Lady Emma Barnard (The Barness Charity Trust) Franciska and Geoffrey Bayliss Julian and Elizabeth Bishop Martin Blackburn Mike and Alison Blakely Sarah and Tony Bolton Tim Bouquet and Sarah Mansell Pat Bowman Lucy and Simon Brett Adam and Sarah Broke Bridget Brooks Peter and Pamela Bulfield Jean Campbell Julie Campbell Ian and Jan Carroll Sir Bryan and Lady Carsberg Mike Caspan and Viv Wing Warren and Yvonne Chester Sally Chittleburgh David and Claire Chitty Mr and Mrs Jeremy Chubb Denise Clatworthy Annie Colbourne John and Susan Coldstream David and Julie Coldwell The Colles Trust Mr Charles Collingwood and Miss Judy Bennett Michael and Jill Cook Brian and Claire Cox Susan Cressey Deborah Crockford Rowena and Andrew Daniels Jennie Davies Yvonne and John Dean The de Laszlo Foundation Diana Dent Clive and Kate Dilloway Christopher and Madeline Doman Peter and Ruth Doust Peter and Jill Drummond John and Joanna Dunstan Peter Edgeler and Angela Hirst Glyn Edmunds Betty and Ian Elliot Anthony and Penny Elphick Caroline Elvy Sheila Evans Gary Fairhall Brian and Sonia Fieldhouse Lady Finch Colin and Carole Fisher Beryl Fleming Karin and Jorge Florencio Robert and Pip Foster Jenifer and John Fox Roz Frampton Debbie and Neil Franks Alan and Valerie Frost Terry Frost Mr Nigel Fullbrook
George Galazka Alan and Pat Galer Elizabeth Ganney Robert and Pirjo Gardiner Wendy and John Gehr Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Marion Gibbs CBE Stephen J Gill Dr and Mrs P Golding Julian and Heather Goodhew Mr and Mrs Paul Goswell Robin and Rosemary Gourlay R and R Green Michael and Gillian Greene Reverend David Guest Ros and Alan Haigh Dr Stuart Hall Kathy and Roger Hammond David and Linda Harding David Harrison Dennis and Joan Harrison Roger and Tina Harrison Robert and Suzette Hayes Mrs Joanne Hillier Andrew Hine Christopher Hoare Malcolm and Mary Hogg Michael Holdsworth Dame Denise and Mr David Holt Pauline and Ian Howat Barbara Howden Richards Mike Imms Mrs Raymonde Jay Robert and Sarah Jeans Robert Kaltenborn Nigel Kennedy OBE Anna Christine Kennett Roger Keyworth Jane Kilby Geoffrey King James and Clare Kirkman Mrs Rose Law Frank and Freda Letch Mrs Jane Lewis John and Jenny Lippiett Anthony and Fiona Littlejohn Mr Robert Longmore Colin and Jill Loveless Amanda Lunt Jim and Marilyn Lush Dr and Mrs Nick Lutte Robert Macnaughtan Nigel and Julia Maile Jeremy and Caroline Marriage Sue Marsh Charles and Elisabeth Martin Gerard and Elena McCloskey Tim McDonald Jill and Douglas McGregor James and Anne McMeehan Roberts Andrew McVittie Mrs Michael Melluish Celia Merrick Diana Midmer David and Elizabeth Miles David and Di Mitchell Jenifer and John Mitchell Gerald Monaghan James Morgan Sue and Peter Morgan Roger and Jackie Morris
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