The Spirit of Oz: Wizard of OZ Characters
The Spirit of Oz provides high-quality, professional, costumed characters for events nationwide.
While away the hours with us at Harvest Tyme on September 21 and 22 for their 6th annual Wizard of Oz Festival! Meet Scarecrow and his friends Dorothy, Tin Man, the Lion, and, of course, Toto too. There will be live performances, photo opportunities, a costume contest, Oz souvenir booth, and more! Did we mention that you'll also have access to all of Harvest Tyme's regular activities AND those exclusive to their special Construction Tyme at the Farm event?
Sundays always make us think of home. Stay tuned for Dorothy's announcement regarding her next adventure!
Just two weeks until Oz Fest at Harvest Tyme! Join us on the farm for a weekend of Ozzy fun including meet and greets with Dorothy and friends, costume contests, live performances, crafts and activities, Oz souvenirs (toys and collectibles, new and vintage), and much, much more!*
*Admission to Oz Fest includes Harvest Tyme's regular fun AND special Construction Tyme at the Farm activities!
See the full schedule at: https://www.harvesttymefun.com/wizard-of-oz
There's no place like HOME! Dorothy has a big announcement to share with you all very soon!
Dorothy and friends return to Harvest Tyme for their annual Wizard of Oz Festival on September 21 & 22! See you soon!
Dorothy and friends are excited to return to Mapleton this summer!
We've got so much fun in store for you all at the Illinois Wizard of Oz Festival at Butler Haynes Park in Mapleton, Illinois!
Join us for live entertainment, contests, vendors, activities, and, of course, visits with Dorothy and friends from The Spirit of Oz: Wizard of OZ Characters!
Loving these retro vibes for the 2024 Illinois Wizard of Oz Festival! See you all at Butler Haynes Park in Mapleton on Saturday, August 10!
Valentine's Day is coming up! Share the love by sending these Ozzy Valentine cards to your friends on social media or print them out and give them in person.
Happy New Year from all of us here at The Spirit of Oz! We can't wait to see you all in the Merry Old Land of Oz this year!
Thank you for traveling down the Yellow Brick Road with us this year!
You never know where you’re going to bump into our friends from Oz. Guests at Walworth County Fairgrounds were in for quite a surprise this day.
Another annual favorite of ours!
Part Three: Wizard of Oz Festival at Harvest Tyme in Lowell, Indiana, September.
The countdown to midnight is on!
2023 Memories Part Three: The Walworth County Fair in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, August-September.
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More 2023 memories!
Part Two: American Homeland Title’s Customer Appreciation event at Entertrainment Junction.
Scarecrow loves a good dance party, and there was plenty of dancing in 2023!
As the New Year approaches, we’re taking a look back at our year in Oz and sharing some of our favorite memories of 2023!
Part One: Illinois Oz Festival, August
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Our History
Follow the Yellow Brick Road...
In the summer of 2005, while planning for the 24th Annual Chesterton Wizard of Oz Festival, the committee discovered the festival had grown so large that a second group of costumed characters had become necessary. The festival's entertainment chair remembered the three-year reigning Scarecrow Look-A-Like champion, a teenager by the name of Z.R. Allen. She reached out to them and asked them to pull together a troupe of “Junior Costumed Characters” for the upcoming festival. Thus, The Spirit of Oz was born. However, the group did not coin its namesake in its founding year; in fact, the name would not come about for a few more years.
Of course, the characters looked much difference in their first appearance. Z.R. was given less than 9 weeks to pull a cast, costumes, props, and even a 30-minute stage show together! The original cast was comprised of Allen as the Scarecrow, a drama classmate as Dorothy, and two community theatre actors rounding out the cast as the Tin Man and Lion. Z.R.'s mother stepped in as the Wicked Witch when the original actress, a fellow high school student, became unavailable and Glinda was pulled right from the Chesterton crowd, as the originally cast performer fell ill that morning!
All this considered, the group was well-received and, by the end of the festival's first day, the committee had already asked the team, then dubbed "The Kokomo Kids," to return for the 25th Anniversary Festival. The team began planning immediately, but little could they have known that their journey down the Yellow Brick Road was only just beginning.
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