MIDDLETOWN DANCER is in “WICKED”

The yellow brick road has led Sam Buchanan to some remarkable stages since he left Middletown High School in 2017, but none quite as meaningful as the one he’ll stand on in Baltimore this month. The 26-year-old ensemble member in the touring production of “Wicked” will perform at the Hippodrome Theatre from Dec. 17 through Jan. 11, bringing the blockbuster musical within reach of the Frederick County community that shaped his career. Buchanan credits his foundation to the Dee Buchanan Studio of Dance, run by his mother in Middletown, and to Susan Thornton, the legendary MHS theater director who saw potential in a seventh-grader who showed up because “they needed more boys.” Now he’s one of the “Lifters” in the ensemble, hoisting fellow dancers aloft while

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