The Wizard of Oz (1902 musical)
The Wizard of Oz was a 1902 musical extravaganza based on "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum, which was originally published in 1900. Much of the original music was by Paul Tietjens and has been mostly forgotten, although it was still well-remembered and in discussion at MGM in 1939 when the classic film version of the story was made. Although Baum is the credited bookwriter, Glen MacDonough was hired on as jokewriter after Baum had finished the script.
The International Wizard of Oz Club
The club has published many of Baum's rarer books, including "Animal Fairy Tales", "Aunt Jane's Nieces", and "Twinkle and Chubbins". It published two Oz books by Ruth Plumly Thompson and one each by Rachel Cosgrove and the team of Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw. In 2000, it put out its first new Oz book not linked to the original series: Gina Wickwar's "The Hidden Prince of Oz", with illustrations by Anna-Maria Cool. A Wickwar/Cool sequel followed in 2007, "Toto of Oz." That same year it published "The Collected Short Stories of L. Frank Baum." In addition, the Club has published a set of color-printed maps of The Marvelous Land of Oz and Countries Surrounding the Land of Oz, as well as new editions of short stories by L. Frank Baum and Ruth Plumly Thompson. Its best-selling publication is "Bibliographia Oziana" by Douglas G. Greene and Peter E. Hanff, which provides bibliographical descriptions of the original Oz series.