One Of America’s Longest-Running Children’s Theatres Casts Drag-Obsessed Man As Wicked Witch
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One Of America’s Longest-Running Children’s Theatres Casts Drag-Obsessed Man As Wicked Witch

Zach Jewell

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kids and parents filled one of America’s oldest continuously operating children’s theatres last weekend for a professional performance of the classic “The Wizard of Oz” — only this showing of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s fantasy contained a spin: a man in drag.

As play-goers waited patiently for the performance to start, young children voiced their excitement, especially about seeing the Wicked Witch of the West on stage.

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