Something Wicked: Susan Hilferty Costume exhibition at the McNay Art Museum
2022-09-08 - 2023-03-26 | McNay Art Museum, 6000N. New Braunfels Ave., San Antonio, TX, 78209, United States
Susan Hilferty wowed Broadway with Wicked costume designs in 2004, winning the Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical. Something Wicked presents thirty of her exquisite and avant-garde costumes and designs—some from Wicked, some never seen before. Explore the process of costume design in “Hilferty’s Studio”—but beware of flying monkeys!
See website for ticket prices as many are subsidized on certain dates.

Buddy Ebsen Exhibition on Display at Univ. of Wyoming American Heritage Center
2022-10-25 10:00 - 2023-01-15 17:00 (America/Denver) | American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming (Laramie), Centennial Complex, 2111 Willett Drive, Laramie, WY, 82071, United States
“The Entertaining Life of Buddy Ebsen” is the new exhibition hosted by the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center (AHC)
“The exhibit begins with Ebsen’s days as a song and dance man in vaudeville and in the ‘Ziegfeld Follies,’” says AHC Assistant Archivist Roger Simon, who curated the exhibition. “It then moves to his early Hollywood career in the late 1930s, when he acted alongside stars such as Jack Benny, Barbara Stanwyck and Judy Garland.”
Ebsen’s big break should have come when he played the Tin Man in “The Wizard of Oz” in 1939, but the aluminum dust in his makeup caused major health problems; he was hospitalized and forced to leave the production. Ebsen later observed, “I had ingested pure aluminum; it had coated my lungs like paint.”
The Ebsen exhibition features materials from all stages of his career, even exploring his playwriting and painting. It will be on display in the AHC’s loggia through Jan. 15. Through his wife Dorothy Ebsen’s gift, Buddy Ebsen’s papers and effects make the AHC exhibition possible, Flesher says.
The American Heritage Center in Laramie is open 10-5 Monday-Friday.

For more information, visit UW’s AHC at www.uwyo.edu/ahc/.

The Wizard of Oz: Curve Theatre, Leicester
2022-11-19 00:00 - 2023-01-08 00:00 (America/Chicago) | Curve Theatre, 60 Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1SB, United Kingdom
Click your heels together three times and say, ‘there’s no place like Curve this Christmas’.

Join Dorothy and Toto as they are swept up from sepia-soaked Kansas and transported over the rainbow to the technicolour wonderland of Oz.

On her adventure down the Yellow Brick Road, Dorothy meets new friends Scarecrow, Tinman, and Lion who help her on her way, but the villainous and frightfully glamourous Wicked Witch has other plans for Dorothy, and in Oz – nothing is quite as it seems. Through the deep Dark Forest to the bright neon lights of Emerald City, Dorothy and her friends search for the powerful and mysterious Wizard of Oz, the only person who can grant their hearts desires, and maybe even a way home.

Directed by Nikolai Foster (A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Grease) and featuring music and songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice as well as the iconic originals from the MGM film, The Wizard of Oz is a wondrous wanderlust through the world of Oz, in a spectacular Christmas at Curve adventure for the whole family.

But Tell Me, Is It a Civilized Country? A exhibition featuring the artwork of Max Guy
2022-12-03 - 2023-02-05 | The Renaissance Society, Cobb Hall, 4th floor, 5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
Multimedia artist Max Guy’s first solo exhibition, But Tell Me, Is It a Civilized Country?, runs December 3 through February 5 at the Renaissance Society in Chicago’s Hyde Park. The show explores various iterations and adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s Land of Oz. (The title references the Munchkins’ query about Dorothy’s native Kansas.)
“I often take literature or movies as a jumping-off point,” Guy says during a walk-through of the Arts Club preview in October. “I think I was really interested in, frankly, why Motown would produce a Black-excellence version of The Wizard of Oz, which led me to exploring the entire kind of canon of literature.” That canon consists of 14 novels by Baum and several more by other writers authorized by Baum’s publisher after his death in 1919, as well as countless adaptations in other forms, including the aforementioned movies, which Guy is editing together into a two-channel video installation.
A New York City native, Guy, 33, arrived here in 2014 to pursue an MFA at Northwestern. “I like to say that it was just my excuse to move to Chicago. For a long time, all of the emerging artists whose work I liked, they were coming out of Chicago.” His art spans such disciplines as video, sculpture, and collage, and it has been exhibited at Expo Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Malmö Art Museum in Sweden.

Opening Celebration Saturday Dec. 3 from 4-7 pm
Exhibition walk-through with artist Max Guy and Curator Michael Harrison Dec. 17, 3-4:30 pm.
Hours: Wed – Thu 12pm to 6pm, Fri 1pm to 7pm, Sat – Sun 12pm to 6pm

Excerpt from “Emerald Visions,” Chicago Magazine (Click to read full article)

BY KRIS VIRE
PHOTOGRAPH BY LENNY GILMORE

DECEMBER 1, 2022, 10:00 AM

Claus the Musical premieres in England
2022-12-14 08:00 - 2023-01-08 17:00 (America/Chicago) | The Lowry in Salford, Pier 8, The Quays, Salford, M50 3AZ, United Kingdom
How the Boy became a Man. How the Man became a Legend.
From the writer of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz comes the world premiere of Claus The Musical. Based on the beloved children’s book The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, this brand-new musical is as magical as Christmas itself.
With spellbinding songs from Andy Collyer, heart-warming storytelling, enchanting sets, and a whole load of festive fun, discover the story of Claus and how he became a man forever in our hearts, and on Christmas Eve, forever in our skies.
Abandoned as a baby in the magical Forest of Burzee, he is gifted to Necile, a wood nymph, who showers him with love and names him Claus. With a helping hand from the mystical inhabitants of the forest – Fairies, Knooks and Ryls – she teaches him that kindness is the most important lesson of all, a gift that Claus eventually shares with us, as he embarks on a journey to bring the miracle of Christmas to the whole world.
Kate Golledge directs, while the show has musical direction by Alex Beetschen, set and costume design by Stewart J Charlesworth, lighting by Aaron J Dootson, casting by Jane Deitch, sound design by Andrew Johnson, and choreography by Lucinda Lawrence. The piece is produced by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and co-produced by Jason Haigh-Ellery.
See links for dates, times, and ticket prices beginning at £25.50
