The Lion had a full costume but I inserted Romex wire into the tail to make it loop upwards. I would have also liked to use a burlap bag for the face but could not find one in time. I would have preferred finding a kids shirt and stuffing it with straw but I covered the printing with an Orchard Supply Hardware kids apron and stuffed straw at the seams. Scarecrow had a costume which had printed straw. I found shoes from a Goodwill store and covered them with “Dorothy” sequined shoe covers With more time, I would have painted and decorated them with sequins. To match flesh paint I used a Montana brand spray paint and experimented with two colors. At first I planned to use PVC pipe to represent limbs but later chose to use pipe insulation and thin foam sheet to cover the pipe. Dorothy was a challenge in creating bare arms and legs. Featured Three Crows, Three Trees, Nikko. The Tin man would be fabricated from mostly Orchard Supply Hardware parts to represent our company products. Miss Gulch / Wicked Witch of the West Non-Singing Role Villain this character flies in our production Professor Marvel / Wizard of Oz Non-Singing Role Cooky Psychic and Wizard of all Oz this character flies in our production Aunt Em Non-Singing Role Dorothy’s Aunt could also be ensemble. All but the Tin man would utilize purchased kids costumes that were half filled to show shape. Instead of flat images on the plywood board, I wanted to have some 3 dimensional depth. Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Guard / The Wizard of Oz. I had to change the design to have “heads or faces” which I planned to have anyway in case there were less than four taking photos. They would been kid size proportional to the playhouse but the CITP Director nixed the idea likely because of the security and logistics of placing it behind the fence where attendees were not allowed. Initially I wanted face in the hole” board type for kids to engage with our display by having pictures taken as the characters. I wanted to include the four main characters: Dorothy, Tin man, Lion, and Scarecrow with our playhouse. The team chose the Theme “Wizard of OSH”, a play on our company's acronym depicting 4 scenes from the movie on each side. Later Oz-related dramatizations include The Wiz (19), the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1987 stage production, an animated Japanese version (1982), Disney's Return to Oz (1985), and David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990).This is the third year my employer, Orchard Supply Hardware, is participating in San Jose's "Christmas in the Park" Habitat for Humanity completion where companies donate $5000 and a team to build, paint, and modify a wood kit playhouse in 8 hours not counting any pre-builds. In a recent People Magazine poll, it was chosen as the favorite movie of the twentieth century. Because of its many television showings between 19, it has been seen by more viewers than any other movie. Next came the 1939 version, a rare instance in which a great book became a great film. In 1925, Chadwick Pictures released a silent version of the Wizard, which took great liberties with the book's plot and was a also a box-office failure. Its five silent features and a few short subjects based on Baum's stories were not successful, and the studio closed in 1915. In 1914, Baum founded a Hollywood film company. The first commercial films were four one-reel silent films produced in 1910 by the Selig Polyscope Company and based on the Wizard and some other Oz books. The 1903 New York production became one of the greatest successes in Broadway history at that time and continued as a road-show for another decade. In June 1902, an extravagantly mounted stage version opened in Chicago to great critical acclaim. Although the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film is the best-known dramatization of the Wizard of Oz, it was not the first production. List of The Wizard of Oz characters, along with their pictures from the film when available.
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