East High Flies High with Wizard of Oz Production
Brookfield East's shows this weekend of The Wizard of Oz will include special rigging effects so Glinda the Good Witch will float down to Oz, the monkeys will fly, the balloon will lift and a bike will peddle in the tornado.
Click your heels together and repeat: there's no show like this, there's no show like this.... Tonight, the Brookfield East High School Drama Department kicks off four shows of The Wizard of Oz at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, compete with unique special effects, courtesy of a Chicago theater flying rigging company. "Glinda the Good Witch will float down to Munchkin Land and the Emerald City," parent volunteer Jim Mirda tells Patch. "Almira Gultch will peddle her bicycle through the tornado. Professor Marvel will float away in his balloon to the upper reaches of the stratosphere and Flying Monkey will be dropping in to do the Wicked Witch's evil biddings." East believes it will sell out four shows or 2,500 seats over the …
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