Wizard of Oz Playbill

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Title

Wizard of Oz Playbill

Subject

Playbill.

Description

The first cast page from the program for the production of The Wizard of Oz when performed at the Grand Opera House in Chicago, Illinois in the Summer of 1902.

Creator

Unknown.

Source

Claude Villette Boller's Scrapbook, Farmingdale State College Archives, Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, New York.

Publisher

Grand Opera House [Chicago, Illinois].

Date

Summer 1902.

Relation

Claude Villette Boller's Scrapbook, page 84.

Format

Paper, approximately 17.1 cm. x 17.3 cm.

Language

English.

Type

Text.

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Text

FIRST CAST PAGE
GRAND OPERA HOUSE
HARRY L. HAMLIN - Manager. FREDERICK R. HAMLIN - Business Manager
ONLY THEATRE WITH ELEVATORS TO SECOND BALCONY
___________________________________________________

BENGINNING MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1902
EVERY EVENING, MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY

FRED R. HAMLIN Presents the Original Musical Extravaganza,

THE WIZARD OF OZ
The Book and Lyrics by L. Frank Baum. The Music by Paul Tietjens.
The Entire Production Organized, Arranged and Staged By
Julian Mitchell
(By kind permission of Messrs. Weber & Fields.)
____________________________________________________

LIST OF CHARACTERS
(Arranged in the order of their entrance upon the stage.)
ACT I.

Scene 1 - A Kansas Farm.  (Painted by Fred Gibson from designs by Walter W. Burridge.)

Dorothy Gale, a Kansas girl, the victim of a cyclone..............................................ANNA LAUGHLIN

The Cow, named Imogene, Dorothy's playmate.............................................Edwin J. Stone

Farm Hands - Julia Booth, June Von Buskirk, Clara Bancroft, Harriet Lamont, Elsa Garrett, Marie Burnell, Alberta Lowrie, Margie Griffith, Madge Robinson, Albert Cleveland, Irving Christerson, George Young, Johnson Searles.

Scene 2 - (Transformation) The Country of the Munchkins.
(Painted by Herbert Martin from designs by Walter W. Burridge.)

Munchkins
Tommy Toq.............................................Ida Doerge
Peter Boq.............................................Grace Kimball
Simon Pewer..............................................Eda Gilroy
Antonia...............................................Georgia Baron
Sophronia..........................................Genevra Gibson
Premonia...............................................Edna Adams
Malvonia.............................................Carrie Bowman
Semnonia.............................................Doris Mitchell

MUNCHKIN YOUTHS: - Carolyn Fostelle, Nona Kimball, Laura Young, Clara Selten, Ray Dixon, Bessie Price, Eliza Young, Anna Fitzhugh, Eva Martin.

MUNCHKIN MAIDENS: - Jane Blair, Nancy Poole, Mollie Hoffman, Nellie Paine, Louise Pitt, Romayne Whiteford, Sue Van Duzer, Delight Borsch, Mamie Chapin, Alberta Benson, Josie Burton.

Cynthia Cynch, the Lady Lunatic, a Munchkin maiden................................................HELEN BYRON
The Witch of the North, a friend in need.....................................................AILLEEN MAY
Sir Dashemoff Daily, Poet Laureat.................................................BESSIE WYNN
The Army of Pastoria...........................Joseph Schrode
Pastoria the Second, Ex-King of the Emerald City, with a conspiracy to regain his throne..................NEIL McNEIL
Tryxie Tryfle, prospective Queen of the Emerald City................................................MABEL BARRISON
Brigadier General Riskett, Commanding Pastoria's army....................................................Harold Morey
The Scarecrow, with a craving for brains................................................FRED A. STONE

PROGRAMME CONTINUED ON SECOND CAST PAGE

Original Format

Paper, approximately 17.1 cm. x 17.3 cm.