{"id":93755,"date":"2018-05-18T23:01:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T03:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93755"},"modified":"2018-05-18T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:33:40","slug":"stephen-schwartz-to-perform-songs-from-wicked-at-oz-stravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93755","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Schwartz to perform songs from Wicked at Oz-Stravaganza!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Stephen Schwartz to perform songs from Wicked at Oz-Stravaganza!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Award-winning composer\/lyricist will sing selections from his score during free-to-the-public appearance at Chittenango High School June 2<\/em><\/p>\n

It was confirmed this week that Stephen Schwartz, composer\/lyricist of Wicked, has added music to his personal appearance at the annual Oz-Stravaganza! Wizard of Oz Festival in Chittenango Saturday, June 2. His on-stage, free-to-the-public interview was announced earlier this month, but Schwartz has now offered to perform songs from the score of Wicked during that presentation. Schwartz, a three-time Oscar and four-time Grammy Award-winner, will appear as the headliner of the\u00a06:30 p.m. <\/span>event at Chittenango High School,\u00a0150 Genesee St.<\/a> (Doors open at\u00a06:15 p.m<\/span>.)<\/p>\n

Wicked is one of Broadway\u2019s all-time, record-breaking musical productions and celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.<\/p>\n

Two of the Broadway stars of Wicked, Tiffany Haas (\u201cGlinda\u201d) and Michael McCorry Rose (\u201cFiyero\u201d), will also take part in the\u00a0June 2\u00a0program. They\u2019ll be interviewed together about their Ozian theatrical experiences and later appear with Schwartz, as well. Emmy Award-winning producer, best-selling author and Oz historian John Fricke moderates the\u00a0Saturday\u00a0evening showcase.<\/span><\/p>\n

Schwartz will also offer a meet-and-greet\/autograph session Sunday, June 3, from\u00a010 to 11:30 a.m.<\/span>\u00a0at Chittenango\u2019s All Things Oz Museum & Gift Shop,\u00a0219 Genesee St.<\/a>, (315) 333-2286. The public is encouraged to arrive early, as space is limited, and the session time cannot be extended.<\/p>\n

Haas and McCorry will be available for autographs and photographs at Chittenango\u2019s Oz Park Friday\u00a0and\u00a0Saturday<\/span>\u00a0afternoon from\u00a03 to 5:30 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0They will also appear in the annual Oz Parade, which travels Genesee Street and kicks off at\u00a02 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0Saturday<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Oz-Stravaganza! 2018 runs from\u00a0Friday<\/span>\u00a0morning,\u00a0June 1,\u00a0through\u00a0Sunday afternoon,\u00a0June 3. Oz Park will be open from\u00a01 to 9 p.m.\u00a0Friday, from\u00a010 a.m. to 9 p.m.\u00a0 Saturday, and\u00a010 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u00a0Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the 41st annual Oz-Stravaganza! in Chittenango; it is the largest, best-attended and longest-running Oz Festival in the world. The village itself is the birthplace of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz \u2013 the book that inspired the motion picture starring Judy Garland. Baum wrote 13 additional Oz stories and, after his passing in 1919, the series was continued by six other writers until there were 40 official \u201cOz Books\u201d in all.<\/p>\n

Other special guests at Oz-Stravaganza! 2018 include Baum\u2019s great-granddaughter Gita Dorothy Morena, a transpersonal psychotherapist and lecturer from San Diego, Calif., and author of The Wisdom of Oz; Broadway composer, orchestrator and symphonic arranger Steve Margoshes, who wrote the songs for Fame \u2013 The Musical, and who is now penning Oz-related material, as well; costume designer Shawn Ryan, who will premiere at Oz-Stravaganza! his wardrobe recreations heralding Wicked, The Wiz, the original 1902-03 Wizard of Oz stage musical, and the more recent Andrew Lloyd-Webber incarnation of Baum\u2019s story; and Gabriel Gale, conceptualizer and coauthor of the new book trilogy for children and young adults, Ages of Oz, published by Simon & Schuster.<\/p>\n

Oz-Stravaganza! will launch volume two of that series, A Dark Descent, which was officially published May 15 \u2013 the birthday anniversary of L. Frank Baum.<\/p>\n

All four of these guests will appear \u201cin interview\u201d with John Fricke during the\u00a0Friday<\/span>\u00a0Oz-Stravaganza! presentation at\u00a06 p.m.\u00a0at the First Presbyterian Church; the entrance to the fellowship hall is adjacent to the west edge of Oz Park, just off Genesee Street. They\u2019ll also be available in the park itself during the\u00a0Friday\/Saturday\/Sunday\u00a0afternoon hours throughout the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information about Oz-Stravaganza! 2018, visit\u00a0oz-stravaganza.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Schwartz to perform songs from Wicked at Oz-Stravaganza! Award-winning composer\/lyricist will sing selections from his score during free-to-the-public appearance at Chittenango High School June 2 It was confirmed this week that Stephen Schwartz, composer\/lyricist of Wicked, has added music to his personal appearance at the annual Oz-Stravaganza! Wizard of Oz Festival in Chittenango Saturday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-oob","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/32658087_2043870305641994_7400644975072903168_o.jpg?fit=1406%2C2048&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}