Follow the Yellow Brick Road Trail!

Theatre Royal has launched a free The Wonderful Wizard of Oz trail around businesses in Bury St Edmunds for families to take part in and enjoy this summer with a chance to win prizes!

Participants will need to find the yellow bricks displayed in the town's businesses and scan each QR code to reveal an answer to write on their trail sheet. Once complete, the trail sheet can be handed into Theatre Royal’s Box Office for a chance to win 1 of 4 fantastic prizes including:

• Tickets to Snow White at Theatre Royal
• 4 tickets to Abbeygate Cinema
• afternoon tea at The Angel
• a signed photo with the cast of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Participants can pick up trail sheets from the participating business, Theatre Royal Box Office and are available to download online (https://theatreroyal.org/theyellowbrickroad/).

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has arrived at Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds! This classic story by Frank L. Baum, adapted by Mike Akers, is packed with singing, dancing and lots of giggles for families to enjoy this summer.

Theatre Royal’s annual summer production is the perfect way for families to enjoy live performance. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the latest in-house show to be created by award-nominated producing house, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds. Audiences will see their favourite characters (Lion, Scarecrow, Munchkins and more) come to life on stage in a show that’s full of hope, friendship and love. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is set in Suffolk (Stowmarket to be precise) and follows Dorothy and her dog Toto on their journey home after the pair are sucked into a cyclone and dropped in the mystical Land of Oz. Packed with ’80s-influenced songs by David Lewington and popping choreography by Sunny Saini, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz delivers a whole heap of feel-good for families' final weeks of summer.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is co-directed by Owen Calvert-Lyons, Theatre Royal’s Artistic Director, and David Whitney, Head of Creative Learning, and produced by Zoe Fox, Producer at Theatre Royal.

“We’re proud and excited to be creating The Wonderful Wizard of Oz adapted by Mike Akers, as our community production this summer. Following the success of The Secret Garden last year, the production of this much-loved story is made thanks to our Commissioning Circle.” – Owen Calvert-Lyons, Co-Director of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Tickets:

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz runs from 18 August to 2 September. Tickets start at £10.80.

Theatre Royal’s Family Saver offer: Buy an Adult and Under 21 ticket for just £30. All performances are captioned.

Free tickets from Job Centre +:

After the limited amount of free tickets for families on Universal Credit, distributed by Theatre Royal, were allocated in under 24 hours with over 200 enquiries, the theatre is now directing people towards the Job Centre + which is allocating free tickets for families to enjoy The Wonderful Wizard of Oz this summer.