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This year’s Leeds Pride got off to a really wizard start with the official launch night of a very special dress and sing-a-long screening of the all time classic Wizard of Oz writes Richard Swales.
Arriving at The Hyde Park Picture House in Headingley I was greeted with multitude of Oz characters, including many witches and quite a few Dorothys, a Tin Man, a Scarecrow, a Cowardly Lion - in fact they where all there - and even some unexpected characters like The Yellow Brick Road and a whole group dressed as a snowstorm! Once inside the cinema, the event started in great style with a special live performance by Gemma Durkin, who will be taking the lead in the Potato Room Players’ production of The Wizard of Oz at The City Varieties in Leeds in November. Gemma gave us a show stopping performance of Over The Rainbow. Next up was the fancy dress competition which saw ten people on stage being whittled down to three, then to one overall winner - 12 year-old Elliot.
The film began, and suddenly I was off down the yellow brick road. Everybody sung along, and booed and hissed in all the right places, and the atmosphere was electric - really unlike anything I have ever seen in the cinema before. All in all it was a great night and a fantastic new way to re-watch a classic old film - and there’s another sing-a-long in the pipeline for February’s Winter Pride!
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