The friends return to the Emerald City, but the Wizard tries to put them off. The water shrinks the Wicked Witch away to nothing ("Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" (reprise)). Thinking fast, Dorothy pushes the witch into the cauldron. The witch is not fooled and intends to shrink Dorothy and her friends with a magic potion in her cauldron. The witch eventually captures Dorothy, and her friends rush to try to rescue her, disguising themselves as ghosts. As Dorothy and her new friends travel to the castle of the Wicked Witch, she sends various foes to hamper or attack them, but they manage to persevere. He is very frightening and says that, before he will help them, they must kill the Wicked Witch of the West. After a tour (" The Merry Old Land of Oz" "Evening Star"), the friends meet the Wizard. Lord Growlie warns that if someone bothers the Wizard with a foolish request, he may destroy them.
The friends finally reach the Emerald City, where they meet Lord Growlie, his daughter Gloria and the Royal Army of Oz. When the jitterbugs attack, Dorothy appeals to the Sorceress of the North, who freezes the jitterbugs (" The Jitterbug"). The three friends meet a lion who lacks courage, and they invite him to join them. The four friends travel down the yellow brick road, having been warned of the lions, tigers, bears and the fantastical jitterbugs who are controlled by the Wicked Witch. They then meet the Cowardly Lion ("If I Only Had the Nerve"). Dorothy suggests that the Wizard can help them too (" We're Off to See the Wizard"). The Scarecrow wants to get a brain, and the Tin Woodman needs a heart (" If I Only Had a Brain"/"If I Only Had a Heart"). The Wicked Witch of the West, sister of the late Wicked Witch of the East, vows revenge upon Dorothy.ĭorothy meets the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. The Sorceress tells Dorothy that she will have to go to the Emerald City to ask the great Wizard of Oz to help her return home. The Munchkins and the Sorceress of the North greet Dorothy (" Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" and " Munchkinland"). The falling house kills the cruel ruler of the Munchkins, the Wicked Witch of the East. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is swept off by a tornado to Munchkin land in the Land of Oz. A teenage girl, Dorothy, lives on a farm in dreary Kansas with her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em dreaming of faraway places (" Over The Rainbow").