ballet

Follow the yellow brick road

It was more than a century ago when L. Frank Baum introduced readers to a fantastical land filled with witches, munchkins, and a girl named Dorothy from Kansas in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The magic of ‘The Nutcracker’

Synonymous with Christmas is E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “The Nutcracker,” which dates back to the late 1800s, and has become the most popular ballet to be performed during the holiday season. Whether you’ve seen “The Nutcracker” or not, no other dance company does it like the Beaumont Civic Ballet.

Beaumont Civic Ballet presents The Wizard of Oz

As the late Marsha Woody Zummo had a vision to bring dance to a higher level when she founded the Beaumont Civic Ballet, children’s author L. Frank Baum also shared a vision when he authored “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by blending elements of magic, humor, characters to inspire life lessons.