The show features numerous big dance numbers, all choreographed by Hope Vaughan Carline. “It’s been so much fun training Penny to do a lot of fun tricks.” Brenley Murry as Glinda the Good Witch and Molly Kate Skupian as Dorothy. “I’m a massive dog person, and so is Caty and everyone in the cast,” Ballard says. And Dorothy’s plucky dog, Toto, is played by real life pooch, Penny, who is also Steward’s pet. Glinda the Good Witch is played by Brenley Murry. Elizabeth Porche plays the Cowardly Lion Adler Rice, the Tinman and Simone Sharp, the Scarecrow. Some have come back to work with us as adults.”ĭorothy is played by Molly Kate Skupien and the Wicked Witch of the West is played by Molly Bush. “It’s wonderful to have seen so many kids go on to do this in college and as a career. Langley died in 1980 in Desert Hot Springs, California, United States.“YAP is a training academy for young performers to gain the skills to do this professionally if they so choose,” Ballard says. He also wrote short stories for the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. Langley continued to write novels and plays throughout his life. He subsequently edited it down to fit on an LP, which was issued by the listener-sponsored station and offered as a fund-raising premium. In 1964, Langley made a series of tapes for New York radio station WBAI, reading "The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger" in its entirety. (His contribution to Zenda, however, was minimal, since the 1952 film followed the script of the 1937 film version, on which Langley did not work, nearly word-for-word.) After World War II, Langley worked on many British films including the film noir They Made Me a Fugitive (1947), the remake of Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951), the Alastair Sim Scrooge (1951), The Pickwick Papers (1952), Ivanhoe (1952) and the Technicolor The Prisoner of Zenda (1952). Langley began writing for films in the 1930s. He attempted to write a sequel based on The Marvelous Land of Oz using many of the concepts he had added to its predecessor, but this was never realized.īorn in Durban, South Africa, he was first an author and a successful Broadway playwright. The Wizard of Oz has become one of the best-loved films ever made. Langley is on record as saying that he hated the completed product, an opinion not borne out by the general critical and public consensus. However, his finished script for The Wizard of Oz was somewhat revised by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, revisions that Langley himself strongly objected to, but which appear in the finished film. He was chosen for the job on the basis of his children's story, The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger - a children's classic which has seldom been out of print since it was first published in 1937.
While under contract to MGM he was one of the screenwriters for The Wizard of Oz. Noel Langley (Decem– November 4, 1980) was a successful novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director.
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