The Wizard of Oz
The wizard of Oz Over the next couple of months we were going to be involved in The Wizard of Oz theatre production that would be held in the Margaret Armstrong Theatre, this will include planning and designing all the characters makeups and collaborating with the director and the actors. One of the first things I done when I found out we were going to be working on the show was to do some research into the history of Wizard of Oz. Wizard of Oz is based on the 1900's children's novel 'The wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L. Frank Baum. For almost as long as the children's novel has been in existence there have been stage adaptations of the story. In 1902 L. Frank Baum, Paul Tietjens and A. Baldwin Sloane created the first on stage musical comedy of The Wizard of OZ which premiered in Chicago. In 1903 The Wizard of Oz officially opened on Broadway and became the longest running show of the decade with over 290 shows! The Wizard of Oz then went on tour un...