Community Film Night: Wizard of Oz
Join us for a joyful experience as ArtYard staff lead an audience chorus to The Wizard of Oz, the classic 1939 musical fantasy film that follows young Dorothy and her dog Toto as a tornado whisks them from Kansas to the magical Land of Oz. To get back home, they journey down the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City.
Costumes and singing are strongly encouraged.
The Wizard of Oz
- DIRECTED BY Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Norman Taurog
- WRITTEN BY Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf
- STARRING Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
In this classic musical fantasy, Judy Garland stars as Dorothy Gale, a young Kansas farm girl who dreams of a land “somewhere over the rainbow.” Dorothy’s dream comes true when she, her dog, Toto, and her family’s house are transported by a tornado to a bright and magical world unlike anything she has seen before.
Unfortunately, she makes a mortal enemy of a wicked witch when the house falls on the hag’s sister. Now, befriended by a scarecrow without a brain, a tin man with no heart and a cowardly lion — and protected by a pair of enchanted ruby slippers — Dorothy sets off along a yellow brick road for the Emerald City to beseech the all-powerful Wizard of Oz for his help to return home.
Winner of Academy Awards for the classic song, Over The Rainbow and for “Best Score,” the family classic also received an Oscar nomination for “Best Picture.” A special Oscar for “the best juvenile performer of the year” was awarded to Judy Garland.
