Cast
SIAN BROOKE – DOROTHY
ADAM COOPER – TIN MAN
ROY HUDD – WIZARD OF OZ
JULIE LEGRAND – WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
HILTON McRAE – SCARECROW
GARY WILMOT – COWARDLY LION
SUSANNAH FELLOWS – Glinda The Good Witch of the north / AUNT EM
JULIAN FORSYTH – UNCLE HENRY / EMERALD CITY GUARD
Creatives
Director - Jude Kelly
Jude Kelly joined Southbank Centre as Artistic Director in September 2005 and is responsible for creating a unified artistic vision for the whole 21-acre site. She has held a number of important positions in the world of arts and culture.
She made her name as Artistic Director of Battersea Arts Centre in the 1980s establishing it as a national venue. In 1986, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company before becoming the first Artistic Director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse (WYP) in Leeds. As Artistic Director and CEO of the country’s largest regional theatre, she established the WYP as an acknowledged centre of excellence.
Jude left the WYP in 2002 to establish a series of arts spaces called Metal, an artistic ‘laboratory’ that develops creative ideas in a number of contexts. In her career, she has directed over 100 productions with actors including Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, David Suchet, Alan Rickman and Alison Steadman.
Jude recently directed On The Town with English National Opera, a revival of the successful 2005 production; and Carmen Jones last summer at the refurbished Royal Festival Hall. She is directing The Wizard of Oz at the Royal Festival Hall this summer.
Jude Kelly was awarded an OBE for services to the theatre in 1997 and is Chair of Culture, Ceremonies and Education at the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.
Musical Director - Jonathan Gill
Jonathan Gill studied composition with William Mathias and conducting with James Lockhart at the University of Wales and the Royal College of Music. Recent credits as Music Director include: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, on which he was also arranger, (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Follies (Royal and Derngate, Northampton), Carl Davis’s Alice in Wonderland (Birmingham Rep and West Yorkshire Playhouse), Falstaff (MTL at the Drill Hall), The Jonah Boy (Stephen Joseph, Scarborough), Peribanez and Sleeping Beauty (Young Vic), and Putting it Together and Company (Library Theatre, Manchester). Jonathan arranged and conducted School4Lovers, a hip hop version of Cosi fan Tutte (Glyndebourne, Finnish National Opera and Estonian National Opera), and was musical arranger for adaptations of Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen and Die Fledermaus (New Vic, Stoke).
In London Jonathan has conducted performances of Oklahoma! (National Theatre at the Lyceum), Matthew Bourne’s The Carman (Old Vic) and The Dreaming by Howard Goodall and Charles Hart (Linbury, ROH). His operatic repertoire includes Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi Fan Tutte, L'elisir d'amour, Macbeth, Aida, La Boheme and Carmen which he conducted for companies including English Touring Opera, Opera Holland Park and Central Festival Opera.
Jonathan has also given premieres of pieces by Richard Taylor, Jonathan Dove, Phillip Cassian, Ian McQueen and Mathew King’s On London Fields, which won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2005.
He is currently composing an opera with writer Stephen Plaice on the operagenesis programme at the ROH. In June he will conduct the first performances of Odyssean Variations by Matthew King, with cellist Natalie Clein, and a new Opera, Confusius Says by Richard Taylor, at Hackney Empire.
Designer - Michael Vale
Michael has designed the sets costumes for over one hundred and thirty theatre and opera productions both in the UK and abroad, including those he has directed.
His designs for theatre include: CARMEN JONES (Royal Festival Hall); THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Galaxy Theatre, Tokyo); CANTERBURY TALES and MACBETH (RSC); BENT (RNT); CYMBELINE (Kneehigh Theatre/RSC); RAPUNZEL (Kneehigh Theatre/BAC); HEDDA GABLER (Manchester Royal Exchange); KIDNAPPED (Lyceum, Edinburgh); WIND IN THE WILLOWS (Bristol Old Vic); BLUES IN THE NIGHT (West Yorkshire Playhouse); HAMLET and ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (English Touring Theatre); GHOSTS (Plymouth Theatre Royal) and BLUES FOR MR. CHARLIE (Sheffield Crucible).
His designs for opera include: LA BOHEME and CARMEN (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); RIGOLETTO (ROH); TOSCA and ALCINA (ENO); FIDELIO (New Zealand International Art’s Festival in Wellington); IDOMENEO (De VLaamse Opera, Antwerp and LA Opera); SWEENEY TODD (Leeds Opera North) and ARIODANTE, TOLOMEO, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, DIDO AND AENEAS and JENUFA (English Touring Opera).
Productions he has designed and directed include: ELEGY (Lyric Hammersmith); DOORMAN (Plymouth Theatre Royal, Liverpool Everyman and Tour); THE WHITE CROW (Colchester Mercury Theatre); CALIFORNIA SUITE and NEVILLE’S ISLAND (Chester Gateway); and A PLACE WITH THE PIGS and ‘ART’ (Warsaw Globe Theatre Company).
Choreography - Nick Winston
Nick Trained at The Royal Academy Of Dance and Laine Theatre Arts.
As Choreographer, his productions include: THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO, (Royal Philharmonic Society Award nomination: Best Opera; Sadlers Wells/Opera North); FOLLIES (TMA and WOS nomination: Best Musical) HUMBLE BOY and PINOCCHIO (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); STEPPING OUT (Derby Playhouse); BY JEEVES (UK Tour); FORBIDDEN CITY: PORTRAIT OF AN EMPRESS; A TWIST OF FATE and THE SNOW QUEEN (Singapore). ALFIE, (Watford Palace); PARADE (Edinburgh); THE THING ABOUT MEN and LET US FLY (Kings Head Theatre, London) THE BORROWERS (Haymarket, Basingstoke); PUTTING IT TOGETHER, SIDE-BY-SIDE-BY-SONDHEIM, THE FANTASTICKS and BOUNCERS (Harrogate Theatre); GOTTA SING, GOTTA DANCE (UK Tour); ALADDIN (Llandudno) and CINDERELLA (Regent Theatre, Stoke).
As Director and Choreographer, productions include: TOMORROW MORNING (New End Theatre, London); THE MUSIC OF DIRTY DANCING (UK and Europeon Tour); ANOTHER KIND OF MAGIC (Scandinavian Arena Tour); AINT' MISBEHAVIN' (Harrogate Theatre) and GREASE IN CONCERT (London).
Corporate shows include: DUBAI WORLD CUP (Dubai); REDKEN (Astoria, London) and PAUL MITCHELL (London and Paris).
Future Projects include: ADRIANNA FALLS, a new Opera to be premiered in Cologne.
For more information please visit: www.nickwinston.co.uk
Lighting Designer -Mike Gunning
Theatre credits include: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (The Lyric Hammersmith), Macbeth (Empty Space, Dublin), The Brothers Size (The Young Vic), King Cotton (The Lowry, Salford & Liverpool Everyman), Julius Caesar (Barbican, International Tour), The Dubya Triology (New Players Theatre), Scaramouche Jones (Rebbeck, Penney, Bristol Old Vic), Medea (Broadway), Tales from the Vienna Woods (Olivier Theatre, RNT), Aunt Dan and Lemon (Almeida). Dance credits include: Weyreap’s Battle (Barbican Theatre), Spring Loaded (Sadler’s Wells). Opera credits include: Il Trovatore (Royal Opera House, London, Teatro Real, Madrid), Eugene Onegin (British Young Opera Peacock Theatre). Touring productions for the RSC include: The Blue Angel, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale
Visual Installation - Huntley Muir
Associate Director - James Bonas
Associate Music Director - Danny Whitby
Assistant Choreographer -Darren J Fawthrop
Credits
THE WIZARD OF OZ by L Frank Baum. Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E Y Harburg.
Background Music by Herbert Stothart. Dance and Vocal Arrangements by Peter Howard.
Orchestration by Larry Wilcox. Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Based upon the Classic Motion Picture owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed
in all media by Warner Bros.
