🎭 TheaterReview Theatre_Y's latest brings us home to Oz. | ✍️ kerryreid
This year’s show doesn’t take us as far afield in North Lawndale , but if there’s one constant enduring lesson in Baum’s beloved tale, it’s that everything you need to imagine a better world is right in your own backyard. If you don’t know your own power, you can’t empower others.
But Aunt Eve , who’s the chief investor in Ozzie’s, is ready to shut it down and sell out to buyers interested in gentrifying the neighborhood, maybe for “a Sweetgreen, or a farm-to-table deli.” When Thea runs out with Tutti , the family dog, to visit her parents’ graves, Doro follows her, and the two end up following the yellow brick road through you-know-where.
But the show, codirected by Kaleb Jackson, Melissa Lorraine, and Pillay and featuring original music by Sharon Udoh, is far less interested in dissecting the root causes of disinvestment in North Lawndale than it is in celebrating the greatest assets of the area: its people. The combination of adult and youth actors creates a multigenerational real-time portrait of what working together for a common goal from the grassroots looks like.
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