The run closed October 3, 1903
- Opened
- January 20, 1903
- Closed
- October 3, 1903
- Performances
- 293
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 1,071 productions we hold that opened in the 1900s and record a performance count, this is the 19th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Wizard Of Oz 2 more that season
| 1904 | Majestic Theatre Return-Engagement · Julian Mitchell | 171 perf. |
| 2023 | London Palladium Transfer |
Who was in it65 named
Edna Adams
Stubby Ainscoe
Georgia Baron
Albertine Benson
Helen Blye
Grace Bond
Lucile Bryant
Marie Burnell
Helen Byron
Irving Christerson
Emma Clarke
Gilbert Clayton
Josephine Clayton
Marie Clayton
Albert Cleveland
Mabel de Vere
Lillian Devere
Earl Dewey
Etta Diamond
Rae Dixon
Ida Doerge
May du Frene
Erna Evans
George Fields
Anna Fitzhugh
Marie Fitzhugh
Kathleen Flynn
Emily Fulton
Bobby Gaylor
Genevra Gibson
Ella Gilroy
Lola Gordon
Margie Griffith
Charles Hoskins
Edith Hutchins
Grace Igoe
Mary Jackson
Virginia Kendall
Anna Leon
Stephen Maley
George Mansfield
Elsie Mertens
David C Montgomery
Harold T Morey
Nellie Payne
Clara Pitt
Grace Pomeroy
Nancy Poole
Joseph Schrode
Clara Selton
Leta Shaw
Edwin J Stone
Fred A Stone
William van Brunt
Harry Wiegand
Fred Wyckoff
George Young
Laura Young
7 of these 65 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 58 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Julian Mitchell
- Choreographer
- Julian Mitchell
- Producer
- Fred R. Hamlin
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 5 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Wizard Of Oz, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
The Wizard of Oz, adapted by author L. Frank Baum into a musical, opens at the Majestic Theater starring the comedy team of Dave Montgomery and Fred Stone. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 15
- Their big number was the infectious "Button Up Your Overcoat." Good Neivs ran for 551 performances; Follow Thru for 401. The latter show had a sensational tap dancer in the cast: the young Eleanor Powell. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 198
- The Wizard of Oz. 180, 181, 254 At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 377
- Montgomery and Stone were riding high on the popularity of their last two musicals, The Wizard of Oz and VicTOR HERBERT’S The Red Mill. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 338
- consisted of David Montgomery and Fred Stone, who achieved great success in the Victor Herbert musical The Wizard of Oz. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 282
- Montgomery and Stone were acrobatic talents who could sing, dance, act, and mime, gaining their fame with the historic 1903 musical version of The Wizard of Oz, Montgomery playing the Tin Man and Stone the Scarecrow. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 283
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- Which of the 5 recordings of The Wizard Of Oz document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.