![]() I really don’t know how I’d regard the book if I didn’t know about its previous life. ![]() Then when I finished the book, I went back to the play for a comparison. ![]() I dipped into it before reading the novel but didn’t want to spoil the plot for myself. Well, first I have to thank you for a copy of the play-script for Ozma of Oz, the first (and only extant) draft of the stage extravaganza upon which Tik-Tok of Oz was based. Well, this was a funny experience, says Nick. Have you read Tik-Tok of Oz? If not, start here. To a child in 1914, though, there were unusual signs of stability: the Oz books had finally become a yearly event! Meanwhile, his folly of a Hollywood movie studio was collapsing around his ears. Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) finds its roots in The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (1913), Baum’s second and final failed attempt to replicate the success of The Wizard of Oz as a stage extravaganza. Despite a new contract that saw him regularly delivering a new Oz adventure, Baum was busy trying to be a celebrity – not an author. Frank Baum to his Oz books at this point. But where did that leave poor little Burzee? On the backburner, of course! Unintentionally though it may be, that couldn’t more resemble the relationship of L. ![]() Sarah got a brand new, better, more responsible job, and Nick got more responsibilities at his job, and somewhere along the way they both became integral to the 2018 plans of the International Wizard of Oz Club (watch this space). Okay, we admit it: our lives got in the way. ![]()
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