I think you can invarably multiply these hours by upto a factor of about 10, depending upon you ameatre group & emperical skills of you production team? Even proeatre with musical can take upto 6 weeks @ 50 hours/week, as with a standard contract.

jdtoyer: I am directing Oz this summer for our theatre. Do you have any advice about the wizard head, balloon ascension, yellow brick road, scene changes. I have some fantastic visions and ideas, but it never hurts to get advice from someone that was just involved in the same show. Also, do you have any specialty items that your group may want to loan, part with etc.   Thanks.

You can prepare Wizard of Oz for a school in 90 rehearsal hours (I did it two years ago) but only if you make very good use of your time. As suggested above, most days you will have more than one thing going on at once. For us that meant singing and dancing (sometimes two sets of singing - Munchins and "older kids") going on at the same time. Unfortunately, we don't have a separate space that could be reasonably used for dancing. If we did we'd probably be squeezing that in too.

An update on this post. The day after I made that post the boy who was cast as Tin Man died suddenly in a choking accident. I thought at first that we would scrap our entire season, but the boys family asked us to go on- he was a very dedicated drama kid. We started up again two weeks later, and kids were depressed, in shock, angry. It was the most intense possible season. We were glad to be doing Wizard of Oz, as the story of friendships made it more meaningful. A girl stepped in for Tin Man, and it worked fine. Anway, I lost count of how much we rehearsed, probably much more than 90 hours.  But it was the best thing in the world for my grieving kids.

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