In fact, Wilhelm is serving as technical director on the tour, who stresses that the shows are not watered down. The touring company will leave Omaha Sept. 18 and return the day before Thanksgiving. Ark. Where they will do six performances, playing to a total of 12,000 people there. Clement's Church presents Bloomer Girl, Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg's classic 1944 musical hit. The show will run through September 24th.
Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays.
St. Clement's capital campaign. The Wizard of Oz, Bloomer Girl originally starred Celeste Holm and ran for 654 performances on Broadway. Set during the Civil War, the musical focuses on Dolly Bloomer, the publisher of The Lily, an early feminist and abolitionist publication, and Dolly's fictitious niece, Evelina, whose father is a prominent hoopskirts manufacturer. The action centers on Dolly and Evelina's attempts to eradicate the wearing of hoopskirts in favor of the much less confining and inhibiting bloomers. The show also depicts the women's efforts to help an escaped slave to freedom via the underground railroad.