Stage The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been transformed into
a stage play in 1902, and several elements of the sequel book were clearly incorporated with an eye to it also being adapted for the stage.
The Marvelous Land of Oz was dedicated to
David C. Montgomery and
Fred Stone, the comedians "whose clever personations of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow have delighted thousands of children throughout the land..." in the popular stage adaptation. Following the Tin Woodman's and the Scarecrow's importance to the play, a similar importance is given to them in the second novel, where neither Dorothy nor the Cowardly Lion appear.
The Marvelous Land of Oz was also influenced by the story and vaudevillian tone of the stage play. The two armies of women, both Jinjur's and Glinda's, were so clearly intended as future chorus girls that even reviews of the book noted the similarity. One early reviewer of
The Marvelous Land of Oz noted that some details in the book clearly appeared to be designed for stage production—in particular, "
General Jinjur and her soldiers are only shapely chorus girls." Since the stage adaptation of
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been a huge hit, with two companies still touring the country as the second book was published, the reviewer's suspicion was both natural and accurate. It has also been suggested that the twist of Tip being the Princess Ozma also reflects stage traditions, as Tip would have likely been played by a woman in drag. Baum had wanted
Fred Stone and David Montgomery to reprise their roles as the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman for the second show, but the two refused, fearing typecasting, and the characters were omitted completely from the play. Instead, Baum adapted the book for the stage as
The Woggle-Bug, produced in Chicago the summer of 1905. The musical score was composed by
Frederic Chapin, and Fred Mace played the Woggle-Bug. The play was not successful and has not been published, though it has been preserved on
microfilm. Its songs were published, and a collected volume was published by
Hungry Tiger Press in 2001.
Film In addition to being part of the basis for Baum's
The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays,
Land of Oz is the final 1910
Selig Polyscope Oz film, and has been brought to the screen several additional times.
The Land of Oz, a Sequel to the Wizard of Oz is a two-reel production by the
Meglin Kiddies made in 1931 and released in 1932. The film was recovered, but the soundtrack of the second reel is missing.
The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969) is a studio-bound production from independent filmmaker
Barry Mahon and stars his son, Channy, as Tip. Mahon had previously produced nudie films; however, those films were made in New York, while
Oz was made in Florida, and neither Caroline Berner (as
General Jinjur) nor the rest of her army were drawn from his former casts.
Filmation's
Journey Back to Oz (1972) is essentially an uncredited retelling of
The Marvelous Land of Oz, replacing the army of revolt with green elephants and Tip with Dorothy, voiced by
Judy Garland's daughter,
Liza Minnelli. Elements from this novel and the following one,
Ozma of Oz, were incorporated into the 1985 film
Return to Oz featuring
Fairuza Balk as Dorothy.
Television The story was dramatized on the TV series
The Shirley Temple Show in a one-hour program,
The Land of Oz, broadcast on September 18, 1960, with a notable cast including
Shirley Temple as Tip and Ozma,
Agnes Moorehead as Mombi the witch,
Sterling Holloway as Jack Pumpkinhead,
Ben Blue as the Scarecrow,
Gil Lamb as the Tin Woodman, and
Mel Blanc as the voice of the Saw-Horse. Although the adaptation was faithful overall, much of the plot had to be sacrificed to fit the story into a one-hour time slot, and Dr. Nikidik was added to the storyline and refashioned into a lord (played by
Jonathan Winters). The 1983 stop-motion cartoon
W krainie czarnoksiężnika Oza (
In the Land of the Wizard of Oz) combined the adaptation of
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and
The Marvelous Land of Oz in 13 episodes. The novel was adapted in the 1986 TV series
Ozu no Mahōtsukai.
The Land of Oz was also adapted as two episodes of the 2000 Russian animated series
Adventures of the Emerald City:
The intrigues of old Mombi and
Princess Ozma. Elements of the 2007
Sci Fi miniseries
Tin Man also borrow from this book as much as it did
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The protagonist, like Tip/Ozma, is a lost princess sent away from The O.Z. and magically altered to forget much of her previous existence.
Audiobook Ray Bolger recorded an audio adaptation of
The Land of Oz. This was the third in a series of four audiotapes,
The Oz Audio Collection, recorded by Bolger and issued by
Caedmon Audio from 1976-1983.
Comics The story was also adapted in comic book form by
Marvel Comics; once in 1975 in the Marvel Treasury of Oz series, and again in an
eight issue series with the first issue being released in November 2009.
Game In 1985, the
Windham Classics text adventure game
The Wizard of Oz adapted much of the plot of this book, however it did not include the bespelled Ozma. At the story's conclusion Tip is crowned King of Oz.
Later novel Gregory Maguire's novel
Out of Oz (fourth and final volume of
The Wicked Years) incorporates many plot elements of
The Marvelous Land of Oz. ==References==