The 15-member cast of professional actors comes from all over the country, and includes local kids as Munchkins, the Wicked Witch of the West’s henchmen and Dorothy’s dog Toto, who’s played by a 6-year-old girl. Though the two-hour play features some singing and dancing numbers, it’s not a traditional musical. “He had to figure out a way to keep the tornado element and have it also be believable.” “It’s not impossible, but tornadoes are not common in the Rockies,” Armbrister said. In his research, Sorenson found a reference to Tesla going to Cripple Creek at one point, so he found a way to incorporate the famous life-changing tornado into his storyline. Tesla, who inspired the name of Elon Musk’s electric vehicles, had a lab in the Knob Hill area of the Springs from 1899 to 1900 and worked there for eight months. It’s become a Christmas staple for a lot of people.”
“Even though it’s not a Christmas movie, it’s always out at Christmas time. “It’s (‘The Wizard of Oz’) such a classic,” said Thin Air’s artistic producing director Chris Armbrister, who’s also directing the new show. While demonstrating one of his inventions designed to control the weather, he accidentally sends Dorothy through a time twister to the Land of Oz, where she enlists the help of a scarecrow, tin man and lion to find her way back to Cripple Creek before Christmas is canceled. Playwright Chris Sorenson sets his script in 1896 in Cripple Creek, where a schoolteacher named Dorothy invites Tesla to speak to her class. The show and annual Christmas olio runs through Dec. Tesla is at the heart of Thin Air Theatre Company’s new original show, “The Wizard of Oz Colorado,” loosely based on L.
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