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Berkshire Theatre Group Presents "The Wizard Of Oz"

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Sarah LaDuke

Published August 4, 2021 at 11:35 AM EDT

Poster art for "The Wizard of Oz" at BTG

Berkshire Theatre Group’seducation program is now serving 11,000 school children and this year their big summer production is back and it’s "The Wizard of Oz."

The reimagined musical adventure is full of world travelers, festive carnival’s and spectacular sideshows for families outside under the Big Tent on the grounds of Berkshire Theatre’s Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield.

To tell us more, we welcome Director E. Gray Simons III, Musical Director Jacob Kerzner, and actors Isabel Jordan and LaShawn B. Winslow.

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Sarah LaDuke

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.

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