The Wizard of Oz: One Night Only at the Prospector Theater

A Kansas farmhouse, a tornado, and a road nobody forgets.

Victor Fleming's 1939 film still works the way it always has. Dorothy, played by Judy Garland, is carried off to a place that is strange and beautiful and not home, and she wants nothing more than to get back. The scarecrow needs a brain, the tin man needs a heart, the lion needs courage, and the Wicked Witch of the West wants her dead. Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger and Bert Lahr fill out the road. It runs an hour and 41 minutes, which is shorter than most of what plays here now, and it is rated PG.

Showtimes. One show only, Thursday, December 3 at 7pm. Times can change, so check the showtimes page before you go.

Good to know. Rated PG. A 7pm start on a school night is late for the youngest viewers, so plan for a sleepy ride home. Tickets are $15 for adults and $13 for kids 11 and under. The theater suggests arriving 30 minutes early to grab concessions and good seats.

Every ticket does some good. The Prospector is a nonprofit theater built to employ adults with disabilities, who the theater calls Prospects. They greet you and seat you before every show. Closed caption devices and descriptive audio headsets are available at every first-run show.

Make a night of it. The Heads Up Café inside the theater pours coffee, beer and wine, and the ceiling is covered in pennies hand-placed heads up by the Prospects. Downtown Ridgefield's Main Street restaurants are a short walk away.