I am ecstatic to announce that I am the happy new owner of an original poster for The Wizard of Oz extravaganza -- and it is from the origi...

Allene Crater as Cynthia Cynch. Happy Holidays! Today I share a report on how Allene Crater, who played Cynthia Cynch (the Lady Lunatic), or...

I am always excited when a later performance of The Wizard of Oz is discovered. I am most grateful to musicologist Joseph Rubin for pointin...

One of the ways I hope to bring this show to life for my readers is to present the participants as real people who had real lives—both befor...

I have been compiling a complete listing of every production of the Baum and Tietjens Wizard of Oz , from its premiere in Chicago through th...

Blanche Powell Todd as Dorothy Gale. This is the tumultuous tale of Blanche Powell Todd. Blanche Powell Todd was the third actress t...

Toward the end of their first-draft version of the Wizard of Oz musical, L. Frank Baum and Paul Tietjens have made both the Scarecrow and T...