The Wizard of Oz
Phil's Notes
Last Night we went to see the timeless classic The Wizard of Oz presented by
the Greece Athena Middle School, which is the school located next to our church Greece Assembly of God Church. It was filled with sound, sights and fury. The school recently built a new performing arts center and this was first time to visit the new performing arts center. We arrived just on time and were directed to our front seats and I thought we had front aisle seats, but soon found that were end seats ( but on seating chart at Wegmans it only showed end seats and did not show aisles) but they were inside seats and we had to excuse ourselves and empty the isle to get to our seats. I also found out that I was next to young woman with tiny child who had antsy legs and that meant many kicks in my legs throughout the performance. Oh what we endure to get our culture. HA HA. One spectacular part of the show was flying acts. They had flying witches, flying bicyclists, flying cows and flying monkeys. One actor even fly over audience. They also had live toto
the dog ( actually two trained dogs). The costumes were colorful and out of this world and they had many, many choruses in the play. I usually fall asleep in middle of many plays but the action in this one kept be awake throughout the play. The girl that played Dorothy was excellent and audience loved her. The theater appeared full and also had a balcony ( but I am not sure that was full). Another unusual fact was that they had the star actors do walk around through audience at various times in the performance which I thought was a nice touch. They also had many familiar tunes like follow the yellow brick road. The show was accompanied by a pit orchestra which did a great job. All in All I would give it a 10 on a scale of 10.
Report by Phil Edin
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