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Glinda of Oz

When:
Oct 11, 2008 at 02:00 PM
Location:
Crawford Center for the Arts
1720 S. Edmonds Lane

Lewisville
TX
75067

In 1939, Warner Bros. released a movie that almost changed the original book it was based upon. Wanting to see Dorothy’s slippers in bright Technicolor meant changing them to red instead of silver. Wanting to use Judy Garland as Dorothy meant changing a blonde, blue-eyed, short haired Dorothy into a brunette in pigtails and a blue gingham dress. And so it was that millions of children grew up thinking the movie was the book and the book was the movie. Starting its tenth season, The ACT is offering its original musical, “Glinda of Oz” which opens Oct. 10th through the 19th at their now established, Crawford Center for the Arts, 1720 S. Edmonds, in Lewisville, just south of the Renaissance Village Senior Retirement complex. Based on the last book written by L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz series, it puts to rest the myths and presents the story as the author truly wrote it. Critics say “Glinda of Oz” was his greatest work about a magical land, somewhere over

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