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THE MAGIC OF OZ
A new musical featuring songs from the original stage productions
by L. Frank Baum
Script by Eric Stedman Adapted from the books by L. Frank Baum
Music by Frederic Chapin and Louis Gottschalk Lyrics by L. Frank Baum
Additional songs by Harry Armstrong and Victor Schertzinger with additional lyrics by Felix
Feist and Oliver Morosco
CHARACTERS
ADULTS
Mombi,
Mombi a witch
Woggle Bug,
Bug thespian insect
Scarecrow
Tin Woodman
Cowardly Lion
Glinda
Shaggy Man
Scraps,
Scraps a Patchwork Girl
Frogman (British accent)
Jack Pumpkinhead
General Jinjur
TikTik-Tok,
Tok the clockwork man
King Loofnmd of the Oogaboos
Queen Thisbmd of the Oogaboos
General Krod
CHILDREN
Tip (age 10), her apprentice
Polychrome,
Polychrome Rainbow Princess
Princess Langwidere,
Langwidere with
interchangeable heads
Princess Ozma (age 10, brunette)
(1 scene)
Princess Langwidere's Heads
CHORUS ROLES
Emerald City Residents/Chorus
(Omby
Omby Amby,
Amby Cakey
the Cook & Hank the Mule, Glass
Cat,
Cat Saw Horse,
Horse etc.)
Goblins
Wheelers
Chorus Bugs (1 scene)
Jinjur's Soldiers
Oogaboos
CAMEO ROLES (Prologue)
King Pastoria
Faery Queen Lurline
Dorothy
Wicked Witch of the West
Wicked Witch of the East
EFFECT CHARACTERS
The Gump
Jackdaws (shadows)
Dinky Bird
SCENES AND SONGS
Prologue
Glinda, Pastoria, Dancers, Witches
Scene 1: The Emerald City
1 THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ -- Company
Scene 2: Mombi's Hut in Gillikin Country
2 JACK O'LANTERN JOE -- Tip
3 GOBLIN SONG -- Mombi
4 THE MAGNET OF LOVE -- Shaggy Man
Scene 3: In the Forest, in Winkie Land
5 RAINBOW DANCE/OH, MY BOW -- Polychrome
6 THE DOLL AND THE JUMPING JACK -- Tip
7 OFF THRU OZ WE GO #1 -- Tip & Poly
8 MR. H. M. WOGGLE BUG, T. E. -- Woggle Bug
9 OFF THRU OZ WE GO #2 -- Tip, Poly & Woggle
Scene 4: The Palace at the Emerald City
10 VICTORY DANCE -- Mombi & Wheelers etc.
Solo Song
11 CAN'T YOU SEE I'M LONELY -- Shaggy
Scene 5: The Emerald City, Outside the Palace
[MARCH OF JINJUR'S ARMY -- Jinjur and Soldiers]
Scene 6: Beside the Palace
12 CLOCKWORK MAN -- Tik-Tok, Tip, Poly & Woggle
13 OFF THRU OZ WE GO #3 -- Tip, Poly, Woggle, Tik-Tok
Scene 7:
7: The Great Sandy Waste
14 SOLDIERS -- Outcast Army
Scene 8:
8: Turvyland, home of the Oogaboos
15 THE ARMY OF OOGABOO -- Oogaboos
Scene 9:
9: Glinda’s
Glinda’s Tower Room
Scene 10: The Jackdaws' Cave in Shadowland
16 SYMPHONY OF NIGHT -- Glinda
17 THROUGH ANOTHER'S EYES -- Ozma
Scene 11:
11: In the Sky Above Oz, aboard the Gump
18 ASK THE FLOW'RS TO TELL YOU -- Woggle & Poly
Scene 12
12: The Palace at the Emerald City
19 GRAND FINALE AND DANCE
ABOUT THE PLAY
THE MAGIC OF OZ is a crazy, adventurous and often very
funny show (due in part to its occasionally topical humor)
which offers the opportunity for many actors to perform very
colorful roles, many of them female, and some which can be
played by either sex. The old-fashioned songs included are
charming and sound fresh even though many were written
100 years ago! There is also the opportunity to create a few
puppet characters and fun special effects, such as the disappearing rainbow, and deadly Jackdaws which appear only in
shadow. The cast is configurable in size and many characters
can be played by either sex or actors of a variety of ages.
THE STORY
After Dorothy says goodbye to her friends and returns to Kansas, the magic Rainbow of Oz is blown out of the sky under
mysterious circumstances and Mombi, a witch from Gillikin
land who objects to the poor treatment of witches in recent
days, declares to the people of the Emerald City that she
should be appointed Supreme Sorceress to protect the country from further improper use of "weapons of magic destruction." King Scarecrow calls for a tribunal and Mombi is able to
prove her case and assume power over the land.
Her boy apprentice Tip escapes her cottage and he and his
newfound friends Polychrome, the rainbow princess (who fell
off the rainbow), an educated Woggle Bug (accidentally
enlarged by the Powder of Life), and a clockwork man called
Tik-Tok (freed from imprisonment by unknown villains when
King Pastoria ruled) travel through the kingdom of the Oogaboos (who do everything backwards or upside-down) to
Shadowland to try and find the rightful ruler, Princess Ozma,
and restore her to the throne before Mombi can turn dissenters into marble statues and take over all the kingdoms of Oz
with her new all-female army.
In the meantime, the "outcast army" led by the now-banished
Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion, and supported by the
Shaggy Man and Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, musters up opposition, and Princess Langwidere of Ev, who has interchangeable heads, takes action to prevent invasion of her
country.
In the surprising and dramatic conclusion, Tip risks his life to
change places with Ozma and free her from her imprisonment
in a magic mirror, learns he really does have a magic talent
after all and becomes a hero. Mombi is reformed in a dramatic and amusing manner, learning the ability to see through
another's eyes proving to be more powerful than any of her
conjurations. and the show ends with a parade in honor of
Ozma's first (and only, so far) birthday.