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Danielle Hope on Jumping from Reality TV to the Lead in London's The Wizard of Oz by Matt Wolf

Nineteen-year-old Danielle Hope is the latest performer to have landed a starring role in a big-budget West End musical via reality TV. Hope won out over some 9,000 girls to become “the people’s Dorothy” in The Wizard of Oz, a project masterminded by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Now settled into her run at London’s Palladium Theatre, the charming, clearly intelligent newcomer took time during a day of…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PM on June 22, 2011

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