Jason Kerr/Daily Herald Dorothy, played by Zoe Mortimer (left), looks on as Scarecrow (Brenner Holash), Lion (Matt Mathiason), and Tinman (Sam Malenfant) break out into song during a rehearsal of Broadway North’s production of The Wizard of Oz. The show opens Aug. 15 Prince Albert’s Broadway North Theatre Company brings a classic film to the E.
A. Rawlinson Stage with their upcoming summer musical. Starting Aug.
15, Broadway North cast members will perform the Wizard of Oz. The story of Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto who swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others’ wishes. Zoe Mortimer, who is entering Grade 12 at Ecole St.
Mary will play Dorothy and Caylee Guidinger will play her arch nemesis the Wicked Witch of the West. Mortimer said that playing Dorothy has been a fun experience. “It’s definitely challenging because she’s very active in this show,” she said.
“It kind of feels like something that little me would really love because I always loved the Wizard of Oz when I was little, so it’s a very fun, fun time. Nostalgic.” Guidinger is not stranger to the story.
She watched the Wizard of Oz all of the time on VHS with her sisters. “We knew where all the commercials were and we fast forwarded it,” she remembered. “When I found it was Wizard of Oz I thought ‘oh I need got to try out.
” She said pl.