80th Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz brings classic film to The Ridgefield Playhouse on January 29

It’s the 80th Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz and the legendary fantasy film that first brought audiences technicolor is returning to the big screen! See it at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Tuesday, January 29th at 7pm. Fans young and old won’t want to miss this one-time showing, which includes special insight from Turner Classic Movies. This Fathom Events and TCM Big Screen Classics screening is part of the Cohen and Wolf P.C. Movie Series.

Judy Garland stars as Dorothy Gale, a young Kansas farm girl who dreams of a land “somewhere over the rainbow.” Dorothy’s dream comes true when she, her dog, Toto, and her family’s house are transported by a tornado to a bright and magical world unlike anything she has seen before. Unfortunately, she makes a mortal enemy of a wicked witch when the house falls on the hag’s sister. Protected by a pair of enchanted ruby slippers and befriended by a scarecrow without a brain, a tin man with no heart and a cowardly lion, Dorothy sets off along a yellow brick road for the Emerald City to beseech the all-powerful Wizard of Oz for his help to return home.

Nominated for six Academy Awards and winning two–– Best Original Song, (“Over the Rainbow”) and Best Score, the film also stars Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr, as: the Wizard, The Scarecrow, The Tin Man and The Cowardly Lion, respectively. As well as Billy Burke as Glinda, the good witch of the North, Clara Blandick as Aunty Em and Margaret Hamilton as Miss Almira Gulch and The Wicked Witch of The West. The film was the inspiration for the novel and hugely popular Broadway Musical, Wicked.

For tickets ($12.50), call or visit the box office, 203-438-5795 or go online at ridgefieldplayhouse.org.  The Ridgefield Playhouse is a non-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.