Bill Kenwright Videos

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. We are very excited to present 'The Wizard of Oz' week here on BroadwayWorld.com where we'll be looking at footage from the new production each day. Next up? 'The Merry Old Land of Oz'!

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. We are very excited to present 'The Wizard of Oz' week here on BroadwayWorld.com where we'll be looking at footage from the new production each day. First up? 'We're Off to See the Wizard'!

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below to watch some archive footage of the cast rehearsing at Theatre Royal.

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below to watch the latest blog from Dorothy alternate Sophie Evans.

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below to watch the latest blog from Dorothy alternate Sophie Evans.

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. We are very excited to present a 'first listen' to Danielle singing 'Over the Rainbow' from the show's upcoming cast album. Stay tuned for further news on that release shortly and click below to play!

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below to watch coverage from opening night!

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below to watch Hannah Waddingham singing 'Red Shoes Blues!'

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below for a sneak peek at the production which just opened in London!

Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the family musical. Click below for a sneak peek at the production which just opened in London!

In the second part of our peek into The Wizard of Oz wigs room Paul Keating (The Scarecrow) gets wig-ready at the London Palladium...

Say hello to some of our Munchkins! Resident Director Kate Golledge takes us backstage again, this time to find out what one of the teams of children playing our younger Munchkins - the Orange Team (with one Yellow Team member!) - think of their Oz experience so far…

We're in the Wizard of Oz Wigs room with Wigs Mistress Elaine Soloman, Deputy Wigs Mistress Helen Chirgwin and cast members including Rachel Spurrell and Jay Webb. Keep your wig on!

In the second part of our video interview with our choreographer Arlene Phillips, she talks us through the styles of dance in the show and reveals her favourite Oz moments...

During technical rehearsals we caught up with members of the Lighting team - Lighting Designer Hugh and Associate Lighting Designer Tim - to find out what a typical day is like for the guys behind the follow-spots...

Back on the first day of technical rehearsals, we caught up with our Wizard of Oz Dance Captain, Richard Roe, for a chat on munchkins, technicolor, and everything else Oz related...

In part one of our catch up with Wizard of Oz choreographer Arlene Phillips, she talks rehearsals, working with Andrew Lloyd Webber, being back at the London Palladium and working alongside some of her fellow Sound of Music collaborators and her thoughts on our Dorothy, Danielle Hope.

Meet our Totos - Bobby, Razzamatazz, Dazzle and Topper - who are currently following the yellow brick road at the London Palladium, as The Wizard of Oz moves into its second week of preview performances! In this exclusive video clip, we get a glimpse of the specially-trained dogs who are playing Dorothy's faithful four-legged friend, in training and rehearsing with the cast. It's a dog's life...

In our latest Wizard of Oz video update, Resident Director Kate takes us behind-the-scenes to see the show's amazing Props team - including Ros, Damon and Claire - in action. Check out that green poodle...

They're hard at work in previews at The London Palladium now, but a few weeks ago we caught up with our Good Witch Emily Tierney - aka Glinda - in the rehearsal studios to find out how things were progressing. She talks witchery and working with cast members including Hannah Waddingham and Danielle Hope...