It’s a fact that many young people have started their acting careers as munchkins. The same is true in Geauga Lyric Theater Guild’s production of “The Wizard of Oz.” “Some of them are experiencing their first time on stage,” said director John Ballantyne, “so I think it will bring them back for more.” But Chardon’s munchkins also share some special history in this role, in that one of the original munchkins in the 1939 MGM motion picture was a Chardon resident. Carolyn Granger was born in Chardon in 1915 and in the early 1930s joined the traveling Harvey Williams midget...
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