Career

He appeared in Hollywood musicals and other films, as well as on the stage. Lee Dixon is best remembered for creating the role of Will Parker in the original production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! In the summer of 1942, Dixon created the role of the Scarecrow, at The Municipal Opera Association of Saint Louis, in the first ever stage production of The Wizard of Oz to use the songs from the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film. Evelyn Wyckoff played Dorothy Gale, Donald Burr played the Tin Manitoba, Edmund Dorsey played the Cowardly Lion, Helen Raymond played the Wicked Witch of the West, Patricia Bowman played the Sorceress of the North, aka Glinda, and John Cherry played the Wizard of Ounces

Oklahoma! (1943–1948)

Higher and Higher (1940).