The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) adaptation of what L. Frank Baum envisioned. In 1995, Gregory Maguire published the novel "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West", which was adapted into the wildly successful Broadway musical "Wicked". The story describes the life of the Wicked Witch of the West and other events prior to Dorothy's arrival. For the film's 56th anniversary, a 1995 stage show also titled "The Wizard of Oz" was based upon it and the book by L. Frank Baum. It toured from 1995 to 2012, except for 2004. In 2005, The Muppets Studio produced "The Muppets' Wizard of
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,