Performance: 'The Wizard of Oz'

August 17, 2012 at 9:00PM
Cassie Okenka and Snickers as Toto in "Wizard of Oz."
Cassie Okenka and Snickers as Toto in "Wizard of Oz." (Margaret Andrews/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

British director Nigel West helms this stage revival of the 1939 classic MGM film about Dorothy's journey down the yellow brick road. This production, praised in the British press, stars Cassie Okenka as Dorothy and features a dozen local children as Munchkins.

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Rohan Preston covers theater for the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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