{"id":9338,"date":"2014-04-14T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=9338"},"modified":"2016-06-21T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T13:49:20","slug":"esus-department-of-theatre-to-present-the-wizard-of-oz-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esus-department-of-theatre-to-present-the-wizard-of-oz-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU\u2019s Department of Theatre to Present \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy will once again find herself \u201cover the rainbow\u201d as East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Department of Theatre presents the joyful musical adaptation of the classic L. Frank Baum novel, \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d developed by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).<\/p>\n<p>First presented in 1987, the RSC version of the script includes the memorable songs from the beloved MGM movie musical which is marking its 75th anniversary this year.\u00a0For the RSC version, John Kane expanded the original MGM script and included one musical number, \u201cThe Jitterbug,\u201d which was cut from the final screen version.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9347\" src=\"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wizard_of_oz2-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"wizard_of_oz2\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wizard_of_oz2-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wizard_of_oz2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 24, and Friday, April 25; at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 26; and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 27. All performances are in the Smith-McFarland Theatre of the university\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking Behind the Emerald City,\u201d a brief presentation examining the historical and social context of Baum\u2019s book, will be given Thursday, April 24, and Saturday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in the Madelon Powers Gallery of the Fine and Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>In the talk, Hunter Fogel, a junior from East Stroudsburg, Pa., majoring in English and minoring in theatre, will examine some of the political allegory and racial stereotyping in the book, and also will explain the role of the dramaturge in a production. The presentation is open to the public at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>General admission for the production is $12; $10 for senior citizens, faculty and staff with ID; $7 for students with ID; and $5 for youth.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets may be purchased in advance online with a credit card at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esu.edu\/theatretickets\">www.esu.edu\/theatretickets<\/a>.\u00a0Remaining seats will be available at the box office beginning one hour before the performance.\u00a0 Only cash and checks are accepted at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret J. Ball, D.M.A., ESU associate professor of theatre, is directing the production and Betsy Buzzelli-Clarke, Ed.D., ESU associate professor and chair of music, is musical director. Yoshinori Tanokura, ESU assistant professor of theatre, designed the sets and costumes for the production. Guest designer Charles Reese created the lighting for the piece.<\/p>\n<p>Community partners who have provided support for the production include: The Gallery at Liztech, Trackside Station, Dansbury Diner and Pocono Community Theater.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the production, please call 570-422-3483, ext. 4, or email <a href=\"mailto:esuarts@esu.edu\">esuarts@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU\u2019s Department of Theatre to Present \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d This Month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,22,42,58,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-facebook","category-news-release","category-slider","category-theater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14520,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions\/14520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}