The Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition is a 60-minute stage adaptation of the 1939 film, designed for young performers. It follows Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, as they are swept to Oz, befriend a Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion, and travel the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, aiming to defeat the Wicked Witch and return home.

It's 1954. Everyone likes Ike, nobody likes communism and Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker is the coolest boy in Baltimore. He's a bad boy with a good cause – truth, justice and the pursuit of rock and roll. Cry-Baby and the square rich girl, Allison, are star-crossed lovers at the center of this world. Fueled by hormones and the new rhythms of rock and roll, she turns her back on her squeaky clean boyfriend, Baldwin, to become a "drape" (a Baltimore juvenile delinquent) and Cry-Baby's moll. At the other end of the topsy-turvy moral meritocracy of 1954 America, Baldwin is the king of the squares and leads his close-harmony pals against the juvenile delinquents, who are ultimately arrested for arson, sending the drapes all off to prison. It's Romeo and Juliet meets High School Hellcats.