Two decades of Broadway in the Park

August 2, 2022 11:43 PM — Posted by anaheimsigns — Posted at irvine sign company

Waylaid for two years by the pandemic, the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts is finally celebrating two decades of creating “community through the arts” by turning Peppertree Park into an outdoor theater.

For it 20th year, the Broadway in the Park program has been entertaining audiences under the stars with its production of “The Wizard of Oz.”

Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, and the Scarecrow, played by Doran Butler, help free the Tin Man, played by Matthew Patrick Davis, from his paralysis during a scene from “The Wizard of Oz,” performed in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
The Scarecrow, played by Doran Bustler, the Tin Man, played by Matthew Patrick Davis, the Lion, played by Andrew Metzger, and Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, from left, set out toward the Emerald City together during a scene from “The Wizard of Oz,” put on by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts, and performed in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, meets the Scarecrow, played by Doran Butler, during a performance of “The Wizard of Oz,” put on by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts, in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Lauren Samuels, who has worked in movies, theatre and television, including Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Over the Rainbow,” a TV competition show in London, as well as in the musical “Grease” in the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End, London’s version of Broadway, plays Glinda the good witch in a production of “The Wizard of Oz” in Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, meets the Munchkins as she arrives in Oz during a scene from “The Wizard of Oz,” put on by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts, in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Katherine McDonough performs at The Wicked Witch during a production of “The Wizard of Oz,” put on by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts, in Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, meets Professor Marvel, played by played by Barry Pearl, who also plays the Wizard, and who has acted in several movies and Broadway shows, during a performance of the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts’ “The Wizard of Oz” in Peppertree Park in Tustin on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
The cast and crew of “The Wizard of Oz,” put on by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts, run through a dress rehearsal during dusk in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022, with public performances running from Tuesday, August 2 through Saturday, August 6, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
The Scarecrow, played by Doran Bustler, the Tin Man, played by Matthew Patrick Davis, the Lion, played by Andrew Metzger, and Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, from left, set out toward the Emerald City together during a scene from “The Wizard of Oz,” put on by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts, and performed in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
The Tin Man, played by Matthew Patrick Davis, sings “If I only had a heart,” during a production of the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts’ “The Wizard of Oz” in Peppertree Park in Tustin on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, clutches onto Toto, played by a real dog named Charlie, as she flees from a tornado, represented on a 20×40-foot video projection wall on stage behind her, during a performance of the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts’ “The Wizard of Oz” in Peppertree Park in Tustin on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
The Lion, played by Andrew Metzger, the Tin Man, played by Matthew Patrick Davis, Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, and the Scarecrow, played by Doran Bustler, from left, set out toward the Emerald City together during a scene from “The Wizard of Oz,” put on by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts, and performed in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, meets the Munchkins as she arrives in Oz during a scene from “The Wizard of Oz,” put on by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts, in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, meets the Munchkins as she arrives in Oz during a scene from “The Wizard of Oz,” put on by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts, in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
A group of Munchkins sing and dance on stage during a production of “The Wizard of Oz” in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday evening, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, sings and dances with a group of Munchkins as they instruct her to just “follow the yellow-brick road” during a scene from “The Wizard of Oz,” put on by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts, in Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
The Wicked Witch, played by Katherine McDonough, confronts Dorothy, played by Belle Stine, during a scene from “The Wizard of Oz,” put on by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts in Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
The Wicked Witch, played by Katherine McDonough, performs while a giant video projection wall depicting ruby slippers plays behind her, during a dress rehearsal for “The Wizard of Oz” in Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, and the Scarecrow, played by Doran Butler, help free the Tin Man, played by Matthew Patrick Davis, from his paralysis during a scene from “The Wizard of Oz,” performed in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, looks around as she emerges in the colorful world of Oz during a performance of the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts’ “The Wizard of Oz” in Peppertree Park in Tustin on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
Dorothy, played by Bella Stine, talks with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em, played by Robin Walton and Lauren Samuels, during the opening farm scene in a “The Wizard of Oz” production in Tustin’s Peppertree Park on Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)

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Shows continue through Saturday, Aug. 6. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. and the show starts at approximately 7:45 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at tacfa.org. The 30-year-old fine arts group subsidizes a variety of art programs in the community and Tustin schools.

Audience members can lay out a picnic or there is food for sale, kids can play in a fun zone and the actors hang out after the show for an autograph session.

Playing the wizard is Barry Pearl, known for his role in “Grease” as on of the T-Birds, and Lauren Samuels, a veteran of the stage, is Glinda the Good Witch. Adding to the performance is a 20-by-40-foot video projection wall added this year behind the actors.

“We have pulled out all the stops for our 20th Broadway in the Park and it is guaranteed to be a spectacular show every night,” co-chair Cathy Crair said.

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