SHS Wizard of Oz: the Jitterbug

Award winning Stratford playhouse production of The Wizard of Oz
2008

[@METmusic9597]

I did this play when i was 10 and I was Dorothy, we had such a long script i have NO CLUE how i learnt it i know i couldn't do it now if I tried! but this was defo one of me fav songs to perform!

[@isabellad1752]

Those costumes are spectacular. My school is about to do this show and I'm going to be the scarecrow. Very impressed with this clip! Looks like this was a great high school production!

[@hachinavio]

I know! My school is too

[@2blondebesties]

Haha. Did you see Toto?

[@sebbu1094]

I just noticed the Toto was real... Poor dog.

[@BrittEverAfter]

a high school production?!?! Stellar performance! The dance off is not in the original script but it was cool to see though! I LOVE the wicked witches tights! : )

[@joecascone2189]

Very good choreography, cast and exceptional orchestra -- particularly for a high school production!

[@crose255able]

that dog looked scared out of its wits

[@steelers6titles]

In the novel, the Witch sends a swarm of bees to attack Dorothy and the others. For the film, made at the height of the Swing Era, Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg came up with "The Jitterbug", who gets the four friends to dance themselves into exhaustion so the flying monkeys can kidnap them. In the movie the Witch mentions an "insect that will take the sting out of them"; the line was left in, though the number was cut. Rehearsal footage exists, with prop men moving the tree limbs in the Witch's forest along with the music. The number was fully recorded for the soundtrack.

[@DannyBeckerFilms]

I love the witch dance off!! YAAAAAAASSS!!!!

[@waynebrasler]

So wonderful to know this song, never completed for the film for all the wrong reasons, has survived the decades in the stage productions. The Muny Opera in St. Louis was one of the first theatres to resurrect the song and number and it proved a smash every time.

[@Emeraldthepony]

Elphie and Glinda dance off!!

[@MaskedMan66]

Not friggin' "Elphie."

[@Lovestodanceandsable]

if it was a highschool than they did a really good job

[@AllieBecauseImMe]

AMAZING!! :DDDD In Wizard Of Oz Now...And I Hope It Is Half As Good As This Production....This Was Great!! Soo Much Talent!! :))

[@AudiophileTommy]

Ha Ha ! The scarecrow looks like Peter Chris of Kiss (in makeup)

[@jonathanmichael7130]

This is amazing !!!!

[@musicguru2398]

great good job i loved the flying part

[@elliegray820]

This was good but damn, does the scarecrow have to be so damn creppy

[@samanthadeysel2846]

I agree

[@MaskedMan66]

"Creppy?" What does "creppy" mean?

[@elliegray820]

MaskedMan66 guess

[@MaskedMan66]

It's obvious. But in what way do you think so?

[@elliegray820]

MaskedMan66 i don't know man i commented this a year ago i haven't been in the wizard of oz play in like two years i don't remember

[@maeve1886]

I'm doing this play I am the lullaby league,ozian,optimistic voice and a jitterbug

[@cori512]

This is pretty amazing! Well done :)

[@matthewgongora14]

I love this scene

[@holrona8801]

amazing! Love this song soo much!!

[@stargramma]

OMG I am doing the Wizard Of Oz in my school and I am a jitterbug! I just wish that they would let us use a real dog as Toto

[@BEJAX222]

Go witch!

[@cari_sarah_4207]

I’m doing this play. I’m a crow and a jitterbug.

[@PokeMaster2099]

My sister is learning this for her play at Matthews playHouse, Nice job

[@R12-h9t]

Edna Mode

[@THEATREisJOY]

river dancing witches, man that's cool

[@moonlightsparkle29]

THE DANCE OFF BETWEEN WITCH AND GLINDA LOL

[@mimimemes9979]

Improv playhouse has a great version of this

[@bethaniewebber9836]

I disagree. the costumes for the lion and scarecrow could have been better especially the makeup

[@MaskedMan66]

Most likely they could not have been; you don't seem to understand such things as limited budget/resources.

[@summersinging2011]

That was really good!

[@ZoeBridger00]

Really good !!!!

[@Burimyu765]

She's not got much star quality...

[@lilijennings7316]

I agree because she can't freaking hit the notes in the song.

[@JordanPhillips90]

Nope, this is from a high school in Houston, TX. I worked on the production.

[@maile5701]

In my school play were using a person as Toto

[@mjvt0218]

i was in my school production of the wizard of oz and i was a jitterbug

[@moonlightsparkle29]

I am doing this play too! I play Dorothy Gale!

[@idontnoapassword]

it was college standford. award winning.

[@Brittanythelaw]

Was this for a high school?

[@dabooda49]

hahahhaa

[@R12-h9t]

No Balls No Capes !

[@haleyblenkinsop7946]

Totos a real dog

[@casandraleach8242]

shes good

[@wizardblonde91]

The dance thing between the witches was stupid. that was wasted time added to a perfectly written show.