High School Student Who Uses a Wheelchair Stars in ‘Wizard of Oz’ with Her Service Dog

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"The Wizard of Oz is often considered one of the best films in the history of cinema. Although it was released in 1939, people around the world still know the story of Dorothy and her puppy Toto. There have been countless remakes and adaptations from the film of musicals to school productions A school production of The Wizard of Oz is particularly moving because of who played the main role of Dorothy.

When Erin Bischoff auditioned for the school play, he had no idea what part he could have. Unfortunately, the teenager is confined to a wheelchair due to a genetic condition called osteogenesis imperfecta that makes her bones extremely fragile, leaving her very sensitive to bone breakage and fractures. In his seventeen short years, he has already had more than ten surgeries and 100 fractures.