If you can sing along with the movie you will love the play. As you remember, Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are tormented by Miss Almira Gulch, but Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are too busy to listen.  When Miss Gulch takes Toto away the whole family is heart-sore. Still there's work to be done, and a storm brewing.

Toto escapes, and Dorothy does too.  Leaving home, Dorothy meets Professor Marvel who convinces her to run right back home. But a tornado hits, and she is too late to make it into the storm cellar. The cyclone carries her far away - to Oz. She is greeted by Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. Dorothy's house has killed the Wicked Witch of the East! 

Her sister, the Wicked Witch of the West vows to get Dorothy and her little dog, too! It's urgent Dorothy get home as soon as possible, so off she goes down the yellow brick road to see the Wizard of Oz. It isn't long before she meets a Scarecrow. He wants a brain, so he decides to go with her to see the Wizard. The two discover a rusty Tinman. They oil him and hear his story of lost love.

He wants a heart again, and joins Dorothy and the Scarecrow on their journey. Soon, the three meet a Lion, but when he chases Toto, and Dorothy smacks him on the nose, he breaks down in tears. He needs courage, so off they go. When the Emerald City is just over the hill, the Wicked Witch works a sleeping spell in a field of poppies where Dorothy, Toto, and the Lion fall asleep. The Scarecrow and the Tinman call on Glinda for help, who blankets the poppies with snow, freeing the friends.

Inside the city the Wizard gives them an impossible assignment - to bring him the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. The friends set their course due west toward the land of the Winkies (did you know that is what they are called?!). As they travel, the Wicked Witch sends flying monkeys to capture Dorothy and Toto. The monkeys tear Scarecrow apart, take Dorothy and Toto, and leave the Tinman and the Lion to pick up the pieces.

While Dorothy is trapped in the Witch's castle, her friends devise a rescue plan. They dress as Winkie soldiers and follow Toto into the castle, finding Dorothy just before the Witch finds them. When the Witch dips her broom in fire and approaches the Scarecrow, Dorothy tosses a pail of water on the Witch and, amazingly, utterly destroys her.

Back in the Emerald City, the friends finally get what they've wanted, although not the way they expected. The Wizard attempts to take Dorothy back to Kansas in his grand hot air balloon, but it goes wrong and she has to get home of her own accord. Back home everyone looks wonderfully familiar, precious and more dear than ever. For Dorothy, there's no place like home.

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Synopsis from:  http://www.lakelandplayers.org/Plaza.htm