<Dd> * denotes new song by Rice and Lloyd Webber . </Dd> <Dd> * * denotes new lyric by Rice . </Dd> <P> A cast album, featuring the songs from the original production, was released as a CD and digital download on 9 May 2011 . </P> <P> Opening night reviews were mixed but generally praised the designs, the special effects and several cast members, especially Waddingham . The Telegraph reviewer, Charles Spencer, rated the production three out of five stars, writing: "Jeremy Sams's production pulls out all the stops, with ingenious designs by Robert Jones that skilfully conjure up both the sepia world of Kansas and the lurid colours of Oz . Dorothy's flight to the enchanted land is thrillingly caught with the help of film effects that wouldn't look out of place on Doctor Who and the story is told with clarity and pace", but added that Hope "offers a thoroughly competent rather than an inspired performance" that "lacks the heart - catching vulnerability of the young Judy Garland". Paul Taylor of The Independent gave the show four out of five stars, commenting: "Jeremy Sams's production is a marvel of beguiling narrative fluency and, with Robert Jones's superb designs, of endlessly witty and spectacular visual invention--from the digitally - enhanced hurricane transition to Oz to the skeletally twisted Gothic palace of the Wicked Witch and her totalitarian, helmeted guards ." Henry Hitchings of the London Evening Standard also gave the show four out of five stars, praising Jones's "lavish costumes and lovingly conceived sets...The story is lucid and well - paced, though the technological wizardry occasionally obscures its inherent magic...Danielle Hope...makes a winning impression . Her performance combines innocence with easy charm, and her voice soars ." Although Michael Billington, the reviewer at The Guardian, felt "blitzkrieged rather than charmed", he gave the production three stars out of five, writing: </P>

Original broadway cast of the wizard of oz