The Wizard of Oz (2011 musical) Centre,the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, and at the Adelaide Festival Theatre. The cast includes Anthony Warlow as the Wizard with Lucy Durack as Glinda the Good Witch and Jemma Rix as Wicked Witch of the West. "The Wizard of Oz" was first turned into a musical extravaganza by Baum himself. A loose adaptation of his 1900 novel (there is no Wicked Witch or Toto, and there are some new characters), it first played in Chicago in 1902 and was a success on Broadway the following year. It then toured for nine years. The 1939 film adaptation bore a closer resemblance
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz Woggle-Bug Book" (1905). The project was designed to promote "The Marvelous Land of Oz". Coincidentally, it ran at the same time as a comic strip featuring Oz characters that was written and drawn by W. W. Denslow. Denslow has drawn the illustrations for "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and shared in its copyright. After Baum and Denslow had a falling out, Denslow exercised his copyright through his strip, called "Denslow's Scarecrow and Tin-Man", which ran in relatively few newspapers from December 1904 to March 1905—an artistic and commercial failure. "The Visitors from Oz", published by Reilly and Lee in 1960,