Origin
Sign In My Cart
Search
alphabetical author index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Oz (revised version - manuscript)

After the Kansas City world premiere, OZ went international in a spectacular production at London's famed Unicorn Theatre. The resulting critically acclaimed production developed and resulted in a more dramatic, expanded script which is now available upon request in manuscript form.

More information

Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Target Audience: Young Audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, High School/Secondary
L. Frank Baum is in trouble --forty-four years old and on the eve of his greatest creative work-- he is a jack of all trades but success eludes him. 

It is 1899 in Chicago and Baum is putting the finishing touches on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but putting dreams on paper is elusive business and Baum is struggling with some definite plot problems, no title and no ending! Like the cyclone in his story, Baum's housekeeper, Bridgey, and a little girl named Dot gets swept up in the mad vortex of his tale, as Baum enlists them to help him improvise the story. Suddenly, an overstuffed Victorian study becomes a magical land, a black, horsehair footstool becomes Toto; a ceiling fan with scarves becomes the cyclone; stuffing from the sofa, a potbelly stove and a bearskin rug become the Scarecrow, the Tinman and the Cowardly Lion. 

Somewhere, in the heart of this frenzy is the whole creative process, and in the end we realize that Baum is the real Wizard of Oz, but he needs an assistant... our imaginations. 

Premiere Production: After the Kansas City world premiere, OZ went international in a spectacular production at London's famed Unicorn Theatre.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 2F

Available Material

Name Price
Oz (revised version - manuscript) Script Order Now

L. Frank Baum is in troubleeforty-four years old and on the eve of his greatest creative workehe is a jack of all trades but success eludes him. It is 1899 in Chicago and Baum is putting the finishing touches on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but putting dreams on paper is elusive business and Baum is struggling with some definite plot problems, no title and no ending! Like the cyclone in his story, Baum's housekeeper, Bridgey, and a little girl named Dot gets swept up in the mad vortex of his tale, as Baum enlists them to help him improvise the story. Suddenly, an overstuffed Victorian study becomes a magical land, a black, horsehair footstool becomes Toto; a ceiling fan with scarves becomes the cyclone; stuffing from the sofa, a potbelly stove and a bearskin rug become the Scarecrow, the Tinman and the Cowardly Lion. Somewhere, in the heart of this frenzy is the whole creative process, and in the end we realize that Baum is the real wizard of Oz, but he needs an assistant e our imaginations. One int. set.

Also Available:

original playbook

 $19.95

Related Works