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December 16, 2024, Press Release from the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts: Findlay, OH, December 16, 2024–Marathon Center for the Performing Arts is holding auditions for Youtheatre’s upcoming winter production of The Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition. Auditions are open to students in grades 3-5 including an on-stage cast of no more than 50 students in addition to positions on the production’s technical crew. Join Dorothy and her loyal companion Toto as they “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” through the Land of Oz, determined to reach the Emerald City, where the great and powerful Wizard of Oz will help them get home. Of course, along the way, Dorothy encounters witches (both good and bad), Munchkins, talking trees and winged monkeys.

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Music filled the air Tuesday evening in Shawnee Township! The Shawnee High School Marching Band was hard at work practicing for their 2024 festival show performance inspired by the Broadway play Wicked. The jazzy show will include renditions of famous songs including "No One Mourns the Wicked," "Defying Gravity," and "No Good Deed." In between drills and run-throughs, we talked with two students about not only the friendships associated with marching band but the educational components as well.

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Rear View Of Silhouette People At Music Concert

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The theater is working hard this week, making last minute preparations to put on the Elf musical, based on the hit Christmas movie, Elf. The movie is about a toddler who was transported to the North Pole and raised among Santa’s elves but finds out that he does not fit in with the elves and travel to New York in search of his real father.