Twelve terriers auditioned to play Toto within the Albuquerque Little Theatre’s manufacturing of “The Wizard of Oz.”
Bentley received the correct to comply with the yellow brick street.
“He’s an lovable little factor,” mentioned Henry Avery, ALT director. “Dorothy has to hold him a lot. The proprietor is a canine coach, so she has been very useful. He has his personal dressing room.”
Followers can see the canine actor in addition to the human forged within the traditional musical from June 2-25. With a 28-member forged, the present is the biggest ALT has staged because the pandemic shutdown.
“It’s such a traditional,” Avery mentioned. “It hasn’t been performed right here in fairly some time. We’ve been so conservative all through the COVID interval. I needed to do one thing huge that will have some enchantment for the entire household.
“It’s obtained a variety of costumes,” he added. “It’s obtained a variety of surroundings, a variety of particular results. We’re making it a multi-media present.”
ALT’s field workplace receipts had soared to their highest earlier than the pandemic, Avery mentioned.
“We have been promoting out and doing so properly and COVID took a chew out of every thing. We need to get folks again within the groove.”
The corporate has scheduled three “masks required” exhibits to accommodate the immunocompromised on Sunday, June 4, a Saturday matinee on June 10, and Thursday, June 15.
“Persons are cautious to return again,” Avery mentioned. “We stored the masks mandate till about six months in the past. However we’ve loosened up and other people appear to understand that.”
Xandra Michele received the position of Dorothy Gale.
“That is her debut with ALT,” Avery mentioned. “She’s pretty new to the Albuquerque theater scene. She has a stunning voice. She does a variety of singing in golf equipment.”
Stephanie Larragoite is the Depraved Witch.
“She’s been a trainer and she or he’s performed a variety of work in theater in the neighborhood,” Avery mentioned. “What I like is she will do her personal make-up.
Abby Van Gerpen performs Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.
“We did this about 10 years in the past,” Avery mentioned. “Glinda is sporting the identical costume. It’s a costume that any person donated and it’s so fabulous.
“We’ve her flying in on her bubble,” he continued. “We haven’t had to try this since ‘Mary Poppins.’ I hope everybody will come and luxuriate in it and be glad to be out.”