The Julia Morgan (Berkeley, CA)
Join Dorothy and Toto and their friends on a wild and wonderful adventure over the rainbow and through the Land of Oz. Directed by award-winning Jon Tracy with musical direction by Phil Gorman, Berkeley Playhouse's The Wizard of Oz features bungee-jumping monkeys, glowing orbs, clowning and classic shadow play.
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This was an upbeat, current version of WOO. It was funny & very child friendly without being boring to adults. We enjoyed ourselves & it appeared everyone else did as well. The venue has been updated & is very comfortable. There was easy street parking on a Friday night.
The children and wizard were fabulous! Great singing by the lead characters. Nice artistic direction.
Very good performance with innovative staging.A bit of a modern twist to the traditional Wizard of Oz songs with a Pink Floyd riff at the end of act 1 and 2.
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Renowned architect Julia Morgan designed this building in 1908 as the St. John's Presbyterian Church. Working with a budget of two dollars per square foot, Morgan used natural redwood paneling, once affordable and abundant, for the interior and exterior of the building.
Website: http://www.berkeleyplayhouse.org/the-wizard-of-oz-nov-13-dec-9-2009/
Directed by Jon Tracy
Music Direction by Phil Gorman
Adapted by John Kane
Music & Lyrics of the MGM Motion Pictures Score
By Harold Arlen & E. Y. Harburg
Background Music by Herbert Stothart
Directed by award-winning Jon Tracy with musical direction by Phil Gorman, The Wizard of Oz takes you over that classic rainbow in a way you’ve never been before! With bungee-jumping monkeys, glowing orbs, clowning and classic shadow play, Dorothy’s dream is a musical spectacle of luscious layering in ensemble work, singing and story-telling.
Berkeley Playhouse was founded in 2007 by Artistic Director, Elizabeth McKoy, a professional theatre actor, director, and teacher for over 20 years. Originally trained in New York, Elizabeth has performed in New York, Seattle and in the Bay Area. She also served as education Director at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, creating and providing exciting and creative teacher training for schools, after-school programs and pre-professional development programs and on the faculty at the internationally known Seattle Children's theatre for five years. Elizabeth was Teaching Artist in Residence in many Seattle public and private schools and assisted with the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum for them-based education for 5th and 6th graders in public schools.