Dog to Play Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’

Dog to Play Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’

A new off-Broadway production of the classic children’s tale The Wizard of Oz, is set to star a local cairn terrier as Dorothy.  Though some theater critics question the move, citing that it would have been more conventional for the terrier to play Toto (which ironically will be played by a 14 year-old human actress from Queens), the play’s director, Andrei Federov, was quick to defend his choice.

“Theater is about the living, breathing moment.  It is about feeling words as tangible play things in time and space,” he said to a group of reporters yesterday.  When pressed further for a response that actually made sense, he called us all philistines and left the room.

Via istolethetv.