She is swept up in the tornado and when she finally lands, she opens the door into the magical land of Oz. (00:11:00)Ī storm blows in while Dorothy is on her way home the resulting twister drives everyone into shelter before she arrives. She meets Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan) who convinces her to go back home. Gultch (Margaret Hamilton), she recovers the dog and runs away from home. Oz Before the Rainbow by Mark Evan Swartz goes into more detail on the Mitchell play.Screenplay Genre: Adventure / Family / FantasyĪfter Dorothy Gale’s (Judy Garland) dog is seized by her wicked neighbor, Ms.
When Ebsen proved allergic to the tin makeup, he was replaced by Jack Haley. Ray Bolger had been cast as the Tin Man, but as a fan of Stone’s, he wanted to play the Scarecrow, and convinced MGM to let him swap roles with Buddy Ebsen. Thirty years after the play stopped touring, it had an unexpected effect on MGM’s 1939 The Wizard of Oz. As one reviewer put it, it “failed to woggle.” Stone’s impact on MGM’s Oz Baum had followed Mitchell’s formula closely, but it wasn’t a style that suited him and the show soon closed. Rather than replace them in the parts they’d made famous, Baum created two new characters, Jack Pumpkinhead and the Woggle-Bug and made them the comic team. To Baum’s disappointment, Montgomery and Stone tired of their roles after a couple of years and refused to recreate them in a new show.
Then it occurred to him that if he wrote a second Oz book and adapted that for the stage, he could have another hit.īaum wrote The Land of Oz with the stage in mind, including an all-girl army for chorus numbers, special effects scenes, lots of puns and enlarged roles for the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman so that Montgomery and Stone could repeat their roles. The Land of Ozīaum wrote several more plays, but failed to find backers. Montgomery and Stone filled out their scenes with their vaudeville routines and added several touches, such as a wobbly walk for the straw-legged Scarecrow. The secret of the show’s success wasn’t the script or the songs but the casting of vaudeville comic duo Fred Stone and Dave Montgomery as the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman respectively. Baum’s share of the royalties made him a wealthy man. The extravaganza opened on Broadway the next year, running almost 300 performances, then toured the country until 1909. The Wizard of Oz opened in Chicago in 1902 to huge acclaim, and Baum admitted Mitchell’s flashy production worked much better than his script would have.
At the end, Pastoria wins back the throne of Oz and Dorothy wins the heart of Dashemoff, an Oz poet. The Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and Tin Woodman join Pastoria’s quest to overthrow the Wizard.
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