Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and dog, Toto, but she wants to see more of the world, despite her family’s protestations that she has everything she needs at home. An unexpected “Tornado” lifts the house with Dorothy and Toto inside it. The house lands in Oz, where Dorothy meets Addaperle, the Good Witch of the North. Dorothy’s house has landed on the Wicked Witch of the East, killing her and freeing the Munchkins who she had enslaved.

Dorothy wants to return home, and Addaperle advises that she visit the Wizard of Oz, as he will be the only person who could help (“He’s the Wizard”). She gives Dorothy the Wicked Witch’s silver shoes to protect her from danger, and advises her to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City where the Wizard lives. On the way she meets a scarecrow in search of a brain, a tin man who wants a heart, and a cowardly lion who lacks courage. Together, they “Ease on Down the Road” to ask the Wizard for help.

They finally see the Emerald City in the distance, but a field of poppies put Dorothy and the Lion to sleep. Not being mortals, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow are unaffected and together with some Field Mice they move Dorothy and the Lion to safety. They arrive at the Emerald City and are forced to wear green-tinted glasses. The inhabitants are snooty and look down at the group until they spot Dorothy’s shoes and send them straight to the Wizard.

The Wizard appears in a variety of forms, each one more terrifying than the last (“So You Wanted to See the Wizard”). Dorothy and her friends ask him to grant their wishes, and he agrees only if they kill the Wicked Witch of the West, Evillene. The group feel the task is impossible, but nevertheless they set off in search of her. Evillene has enslaved the Wikies, and when she sees Dorothy and her companions are coming, she sends her winged “Funky Monkeys” to kill them. They pull the stuffing out of the Scarecrow and bash the Tin Man on rocks, but because of Dorothy’s shoes they do not dare to hurt her and bring her and the Lion to the Witch.

Evillene forces Dorothy to clean the castle, and begins torturing the Lion. Finally, Dorothy is fed up and throws a bucket of water at Evillene. To her surprise, the witch melts into nothing. The Winkies are ecstatic at being freed and repair the Tin Man and Scarecrow (“Everybody Rejoice”).

The group heads back to the Wizard, who says he won’t grant their wishes after all. The Lion is furious and tries to attack him. He accidentally knocks over a screen which reveals the Wizard is just an ordinary man. Everyone is furious, but the Wizard assures them that they have already shown the values they sought to possess in their adventure (“Believe in Yourself”). He agrees to fly Dorothy back home in his hot air balloon, but at the last moment the balloon gets loose, leaving Dorothy and Toto behind.

Addaperle reappears to advise Dorothy to seek Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, who may be able to help her. Glinda is a powerful sorceress, but tells Dorothy she has always had the power to go home if she believed it (“If You Believe”). After saying goodbye to her new friends, she clicks her heels three times and returns “Home.”

Act I 

• Prologue
• Feeling We Once Had, The
• Tornado
• He’s The Wizard
• Soon As I Get Home
• I Was Born On The Day Before Yesterday
• Ease On Down The Road
• Slide Some Oil To Me
• I’m A Mean Ole Lion
• Be A Lion
• So You Wanted To See The Wizard
• What Would I Do If I Could Feel

• Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad News
• Everybody Rejoice
• Y’All Got It!
• If You Believe
• Home (Finale)

Song list for the Movie Version

• Universal Logo
• Wiz
• Home
• Believe In Yourself
• He’s The Wizard
• Is This What Feeling Gets? – (Dorothy’s theme)
• Home
• Aunt Em
• Feeling That We Have, The
• Can I Go On?
• Glinda’s Theme
• He’s The Wizard
• March Of The Munchkins
• Soon As I Get Home
• Home
• You Can’t Win
• Ease On Down The Road – (#1)
• What Would I Do If I Could Feel?
• Slide Some Oil To Me
• Now Watch Me Dance
• Ease On Down The Road – (#2)
• Mean Ole Lion, (I’m A)
• Ease On Down The Road
• Poppy Girls
• Home Medley:
• Be A Lion
• End Of The Yellow Brick Road
• Green
• Red
• Gold
• So You Wanted To See The Wizard
• Sorry Phoney, A
• Is This What Feeling Gets? (Dorothy’s Theme)
• Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad News
• Liberation Agitato
• Brand New Day, A
• Liberation Ballet
• Dorothy’s Intro
• Good Witch Glinda, The
• Believe In Yourself (Reprise)

1975 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Featured Actress, Best Featured Actor, Best Direction, Best Choreography, Best Costume Design.

UK: Samuel French

USA: Samuel French

The show opens in summer 1935 in New York. A tour guide is taking a group of tourist around the city and introduces them to “Christopher Street” and the people who live there. Ruth and Eileen Sherwood arrive fresh from Ohio with dreams and aspirations of making a big life for themselves in the big city. Ruth is an aspiring writer and Eileen a budding actress. They move into a basement apartment with a lovable landlord Mr Appopolus. They soon become homesick for “Ohio”.

The pair have a go at “Conquering New York” but find disappointment on every corner. Eileen finds herself popular with the men of the city, which Ruth laments her ability to repel men, saying she may as well write a book called “One Hundred Easy Ways To Lose a Man”. Ruth bullies her way into a small office that deals with short story submissions and meets Bob Baker. He is negative towards her telling her “What A Waste” it was for her to come to the city. She leaves a selection of her work with him regardless, hoping that he will enjoy it later.

Eileen is “A Little Bit in Love” with Frank and invites him round to their apartment for dinner. Bob arrives looking for Ruth and he stays for dinner too. Their upstairs neighbour Wreck is an out of season American Football player and has to hide in their apartment as his live in lover’s mother is coming to town.

Eileen takes it upon herself to invite Frank, Bob and Chick Clark (a newspaper scribe) over for a potluck supper to help Ruth in her quest for a job. Both girls find themselves attracted to Bob and they struggle to all fill the awkward silences, (“Conversation Piece”). Bob discusses Ruth’s stories with her and he tells her to write from experience. This ends up with them saying the wrong thing and Ruth runs off in tears, leaving Bob to sing about his need to find “A Quiet Girl”. Ruth is set to cover a news story at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and teaches them to dance the “Conga”. They follow her home and Ruth yells at Bob before Eileen is arrested for causing a riot on Christopher Street.

In prison Eileen is talk of the town, as the Irish police officers are convinced she is one of them and sing “My Darlin Eileen” to her. Ruth visits her telling her that she will bail her out as soon as she can. She gets a new job as a promoter for a local nightclub ‘The Village Vortex’ and learns the rhythm of “Swing”.

Bob bails Eileen out and the sisters discover that their landlord is threatening to evict them due to the scandal caused by the Conga and one of his paintings going missing, that has been stolen by Wreck’s girlfriend Helen. The sisters learn that they are both attracted to Bob and they wish again that they had never left “Ohio”. Eileen’s infamy gets her a job singing at the Village Vortex nightclub, and they get to keep their apartment and have some money coming in. Bob quits his job and realises that “It’s Love” that he feels for Ruth.

Over at the Vortex the mood shifts to “Ballet at the Village Vortex” and Eileen has stage fright , convincing Ruth to sing the “Wrong Note Rag” with her onstage. Chick arrives and tells Ruth that his boss enjoyed her story on the Brazilian sailors and has given her a job with the paper. Bob decides to tell Ruth exactly how he feels as the curtain falls.

Act 1

• Overture
• Christopher Street—Tour Guide and The Villagers
• Ohio–Ruth Sherwood and Eileen Sherwood
• Conquering New York—Ruth, Eileen, First Cadet, Violet and The Villagers*
• One Hundred Easy Ways—Ruth
• What A Waste—Robert Baker and Associate Editors
• A Little Bit in Love—Eileen
• Pass the Football—Wreck and The Villagers
• Conversation Piece—Ruth, Eileen, Frank Lippencott, Robert and Chick Clark*
• A Quiet Girl—Robert
• Conga—Ruth

1953 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Leading Actress, Best Choreographer, Best Musical Director, Best Scenic Design.

2004 Tony Awards: Best Choreographer (Kathleen Marshall)

UK: Music Scope UK

USA: Tams-Witmark

A danced Prologue sets up the turf warfare between the Sharks and the Jets in the upper west side of Manhattan. Riff, the leader of the Jets proclaims war, telling Bernardo, leader of the Sharks that they should watch their backs. Officer Krupke and Lieutenant Shrank warn both sides that they don’t want to see any more trouble. Riff attempts to convince Tony to rejoin the Jets, but he has moved on and is now working at Doc’s Drug Store waiting for something that he feels is just around the corner.

Bernardo’s sister Maria is preparing to attend her first dance with the help of Bernardo’s girlfriend Anita. She is excited at the prospect and is full of youthful optimism, and not so keen on her date Chino. At the Dance at the Gym both sides come to blows once more, but Tony and Maria meet across the floor, melting away into their own world. As they escape the gym, Tony sings ‘Maria’ and later goes to find her on her balcony where they fall instantly in love. Meanwhile the Sharks return from the dance and Anita and Rosalia sing of their differing opinions of ‘America’. At Doc’s store, the Jets keep ‘Cool’ and prepare to rumble with the Sharks. Tony visits Maria at the bridal shop where she works, and Anita grows suspicious of their relationship, warning Maria against causing trouble. The pair make a mock wedding ceremony and commit to ‘One Hand, One Heart’. Both gangs prepare to rumble under the highway, and as Riff and Bernardo fight, Riff is stabbed. Tony rushes in to break it up, and seeing his best friend lying dead, launches an attack on Bernardo and kills him.

Maria continues to walk on cloud nine, singing ‘I Feel Pretty’. She is interrupted by Chino, who tells her what has happened at the rumble. As Tony enters she is distraught and the pair wish to be taken to somewhere they can all be free. In a dream ballet sequence we see how they wish their lives to be, away from the fighting and the division. They spend the night together. Anita startles Maria, and Tony escapes just in time. Anita is furious, warning Maria about ‘A Boy Like That’, but Maria protests her love and convinces her that they should be together. Anita promises to help Maria and warns her that Chino has a gun and is looking to kill Tony. She goes to Doc’s drug-store to warn him, but is attacked by the Jet boys who attempt to rape her. She leaves angrily, telling Tony that Maria is already dead. Tony takes to the streets, and is shot by Chino. Maria makes it to him just in time and the pair reconcile. As he passes away Maria blames both sides, saying they were all responsible for his death, as the curtain silently falls.

Act I

• Overture
• Prologue
• Jet Song
• Something’s Coming
• The Dance At The Gym (Part 1: Blues)
• Part 2: Promenade/Mambo/Cha-Cha
• Part 3: Meeting Scene
• Part 4: Jump
• Maria
• Balcony Scene
• America
• Cool
• Continuation of Scene
• One Hand One Heart
• Tonight
• The Rumble

Act II 

• I Feel Pretty
• Ballet Sequence part 1 (Transition to Scherzo/scherzo/Somewhere)
• Ballet conclusion (Procession and Nightmare)
• Gee Officer Krupke
• A Boy Like That/I Have A Love
• Taunting Scene
• Finale

1958 Tony Awards: Best Choreography (Jerome Robbins), Best Scenic Design (Oliver Smith)

1980 Drama Desk Award: Best Featured Actress (Debbie Allen)

2009 Grammy Award (Best Show Album)

2009 Tony Award: Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Karen Olivo)

UK: Josef Weinberger

USA: Musical Theatre International

Dorothy Gale lives on a simple farm in Kansas with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and dog, Toto, but dreams of a land somewhere “Over the Rainbow.” When Toto bites their mean neighbour Miss Gulch, Uncle Henry and Aunt Em agree to give the dog away to Miss Gulch. Dorothy is heartbroken, but Toto manages to escape and find his way back to her. Dorothy decides they should run away, and they come across the mysterious Professor Marvel, who manages to convince her that she should return home to her family.

On their way back home, a tornado strikes suddenly. When Dorothy finds she is locked out of the storm cellar, she runs into the house where she bumps her head and is knocked unconscious. The house is lifted high up into the air by the tornado, but remains intact. When she wakes up, Dorothy finds herself in a magical land unlike anything she has seen before.

Glinda the Good Witch arrives, and explains to Dorothy that she has landed in the Land of Oz. Glinda introduces Dorothy to the natives, known as Munchkins, who are thrilled that Dorothy’s house has landed on the Wicked Witch of the East who has held them captive (“Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead”). As a reward, Glinda bestows the witch’s ruby slippers on Dorothy, but the Wicked Witch of the West arrives and tries to claim the magical shoes. When she is unable to remove them from Dorothy’s feet because of Glinda’s spell, she vows to find a way to retrieve them and disappears.

Glinda encourages Dorothy to visit the wonderful Wizard of Oz, as only he will have the power to send her home. Dorothy and Toto must “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” to the Emerald City to see the Wizard. On the way, she meets a Scarecrow who is missing a brain (“If I Only Had a Brain”), a Tin Man who lacks a heart (“If I Only Had a Heart”), and a Cowardly Lion (“If I Only Had the Nerve”). They join Dorothy to ask the Wizard to grant their own wishes.

The Wicked Witch tries to thwart their journey by creating a field of poison poppies that will make them fall asleep, but Glinda covers the field with snow, ruining the Witch’s spell. The group finally arrives at the Emerald City, where everything is a vibrant shade of green (“The Merry Old Land of Oz”). They are brought to see the Wizard, whose terrifying bellow sends the Cowardly Lion running. He refuses to grant any of their requests until they kill the Wicked Witch of the West.

Dorothy and her friends set off to find the Wicked Witch, and on the way they pass through the Haunted Forest. They are forced to dance themselves into a state of exhaustion by “The Jitterbug,” before the Witch sends her Winged Monkeys to capture Dorothy and Toto. The Witch again tries to remove Dorothy’s shoes, but is unsuccessful. Toto manages to escape and leads the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion to Dorothy, but the Witch has them surrounded. When the Witch lights the Scarecrow on fire, Dorothy throws a bucket of water to put it out and accidentally splashes the Witch who slowly melts until she disappears.

The group returns to the Wizard in the expectation that he will grant their wishes, but find he is once again reluctant. Toto pulls aside a curtain, which reveals that the Wizard is just a normal man. He admits that he is not a Wizard at all, but a magician from Omaha who landed in Oz when his hot-air balloon got loose from a state fair. He agrees to take Dorothy home in his balloon, but when it lifts off too early, Dorothy and Toto are left behind. Glinda returns to reveal that Dorothy had the power to go home all along, and she only needs to click her heels three times. After saying goodbye to her friends, Dorothy clicks her heels and wakes up in her own bed surrounded by her family.

Act I 

• Overture
• Over The Rainbow
• Cyclone
• Come Out, Come Out…
• It Really Was No Miracle
• We Thank You Very Sweetly
• Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
• As Mayor Of The Munchkin City
• As Coroner, I Must Aver
• Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead (Reprise)
• Lullaby League, The
• Lollipop Guild, The
• We Welcome You To Munchkinland
• Follow The Yellow Brick Road
• You’re Off To See The Wizard
• If I Only Had A Brain/heart/nerve
• We’re Off To See The Wizard
• Optimistic Voices

• Merry Old Land Of Oz, The
• If I Were King Of The Forest
• Jitterbug, The
• Ding-Dong! Emerald City
• Delirious Escape
• Glinda

UK: Music Scope UK

USA: Tams-Witmark

In the fictional suburban town of Eastwick, Rhode Island, everyone knows everyone else’s business, particularly Felicia Gabriel, the town’s resident busybody and know-it-all combined (“Eastwick Knows”). She is about to receive an award when a sudden thunderstorm forces the day’s events to come to a close.

Alex, Jane, and Sukie are three witches who live in the town unsuspected and on this particular occasion are meeting in Alex’s house. Though they have each other, they are lonely and lack real relationships with men. It is revealed that Sukie is having an affair with Felicia’s husband Clyde. Alex’s son Michael arrives with his girlfriend Jennifer, who is also Felicia and Clyde’s daughter. They are very much in love, and the three witches are a bit jealous that they cannot have the same thing with a man (“Make Him Mine”).

Felicia and Clyde’s marriage is clearly at breaking point, but she refuses to let the cracks show to the town, preferring to pretend she has the perfect life.  She receives a call that a stranger from New York has moved into the Lennox mansion and is cutting down the trees. Always first to protest, she rallies up her Eastwick Preservation Society to confront the new owner, Darryl.  When they arrive, all but Felicia find him strangely charming, until their signs spontaneously burst into flames.

Darryl appears suddenly to each of the witches, managing to seduce them all. They finally realise what is happening when they are all invited to play tennis at his house. He makes a ball burst into flames and explains he is the man they have been looking for. He then teaches them how to place a curse on Felicia by throwing items into a cookie jar, each of which Felicia then vomits out in her kitchen. Darryl begins having an impact on the whole town when he makes it his mission to teach the men how to please their women (“Dance With the Devil”).

Alex, Sukie, and Jane arrive at Darryl’s for an orgy, but when he receives word the Eastwick Preservation Society is suing him, they vow revenge. They throw everything they can into the cookie jar, and Felicia, unable to cope any longer asks Clyde to take her out of her misery. He hits her with a frying plan and shouts he’s glad to be rid of her, just as she takes his tie and shoves it down the garbage disposal, killing them both.

The witches confront Darryl, saying he has taken things too far, and he becomes enraged, causing them to flee the house. Darryl comes across Jennifer and decides to seduce her, convincing her to marry him. The witches decide they must rid the town of him for good. Just before the wedding, they arrive with a voodoo doll of Darryl and take their revenge, as Darryl is sent back to hell. Jennifer and Michael get back together, and the Alex, Jane, and Sukie decide to give up witchcraft for good (“Look at Me”).

ACT I

• Overture
• Eastwick Knows
• While The Sun’s Still In The Sky
• Make Him Mine
• I Love A Little Town
• Eye Of The Beholder
• Waiting For The Music To Begin
• What About The Egrets
• Words, Words, Words
• Dirty Laundry
• I Wish I May

ACT II

• Entr’acte
• Another Night At Darryl’s
• Something
• Dance With The Devil
• Evil
• Dirty Laundry (reprise)
• Loose Ends
• I Love A Little Town (reprise)
• Isn’t This What Every Woman Wants?
• Who’s The Man?
• The Wedding
• Look At Me
• Finale

2001 Oliver Awards

• Best New Musical (nomination)
• Best Actress in a Musical – Joanna Riding (nomination)
• Best Supporting Actress in a Musical – Rosemary Ashe (nomination)
• Best Lighting Design (nomination)

UK: Josef Weinberger