The Wizard of Oz on the Big Screen With The Florida Orchestra

With the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz projected on a movie theater-size screen above the musicians, The Florida Orchestra (TFO) will perform the Oscar Award-winning music live, May 23 and 24 at the Progress Energy Center for the Arts – Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg.

In this special re-mastered edition of the MGM film, the musical soundtrack was digitally removed to allow the TFO to accompany the original dialog and songs of Dorothy, the Tin Man, Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion on their fairytale journey to the fabled Emerald City.

In addition to such beloved favorites as We Are Off to See the Wizard, Follow the Yellow Brick Road and Somewhere Over the Rainbow, the original orchestration also cleverly contains many familiar symphonic quotes of music by Schumann, Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Delius and Mussorgsky.

Show times are Saturday, May 23 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 24 at 2 p.m. at the Mahaffey Theater, 400 First St. South, St. Petersburg 33701. Tickets are $45 and $35, children 12 and under receive $10 off. To purchase tickets, call 800-662-7286 or log on to www.floridaorchestra.org.

The Florida Orchestra presents the 14-concert Progress Energy Masterworks Series and the 8-concert Raymond James Pops Series, both of which are performed in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater. In addition, the orchestra performs the 6-concert Holland America Line Coffee Concert series at the Progress Energy Center – Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg. The orchestra’s concert activities also include a selection of special concerts, a variety of free Pops in the Park Concerts performed in parks around the Tampa Bay area, and a Youth Concerts program reaching approximately 30,000 4th and 5th graders annually.

The Florida Orchestra is supported in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners; Pinellas County Cultural Affairs Department and the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners; the City of Tampa; the City of St. Petersburg; the City of Clearwater; and the School Districts of Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties.

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