AllArtEarthPeople

Rudolph and Friends present The Wonderful Wizard of Oz {Fade in to curtains, which open to reveal a Broadway quality stage version of a farm. Zoey, in a Gingham dress, is watching the sunset.} Ridley: {o.c.} Once upon a time, in 19th century America, there lived a young girl named Dorothy Gale. She lived in the midst of the Great Kansas Prairie, near a small town called Lucas. {The door on the set farmhouse opens and Vixen and his wife Kitty, also in era appropriate clothes, emerge from the farmhouse. Zoey walks into the farmhouse.} Here she lived with her Auntie Em and Uncle Henry, husband and wife farmers. {Slyly, made up and stylized like a scottish terrier, runs onstage on all fours, then disappears into the farmhouse.} Dorothy had a dog named Toto, who she loved more than anything in the world. Everything on the prairie was dull, their crops were rarely good, their house was far from fancy and the elders, who had lived there for as long as they could remember, were hardly