Of course you could also use a video rear projection of live action tornado scene.

 

This last time we uped the anti a little.. We did it on the High School stage, used all the same lighting and the spining house and noise.. The difference was we did the "bedroom" portion of the scene.. after the house crossed, a bedroom unit (4x8) with a bed and window crossed to center and stopped in front of a hole in the rear set wall where a high lume projector hooked up to a dvd player, played the "sequence" as it was in the movie... The kids went around town and filmed all the stuff, two guys in a boat, rocking chair lady, and the witch on a bike then broom... Our tech class did most of the work. as that played through a scrim window, dorothy watched and pitched.... then it went off and lights came up on munchkin land with the wrecked house... Sounds like a lot, but it really wasnt and looked real cool on our stage.

The only thing we couldnt do much about was hair color and skin tone, but the audince apreciated the nod to the movie..

 

I used a black storage bin with a face sized hole for Oz to put his face up to. The bin was mounted at his head height  then there was a camera on a tripod (I was using the projector that came with the venue and it was setup for a big screen. by careful framing I was able to get the face to land in m circular screen).

 

There is a link at the bottom of this page that has pictures from our production.

 

I teched the show, but we rented the house, drop, trees and the wagon.

I personally did the witches castle, Oz gate, wizard, and lighting.

 

Actually, the biggest thing was the documentation of the venue :-)

They cut the 5 week rental in half in exchange.

 

David