The show's history is covered in more than 100 pages of the book Oz Before the Rainbow L Frank Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' on stage and screen to 1939 by Mark Evan Swartz. The show premiered at the Chicago Grand Opera House on Jand then went on tour throughout the upper Midwest before moving to the Majestic Theatre on Broadway on January 21, 1903, where it ran for 293 performances through October 3. A second company was established, and the show went on tour from September 1903 through March 1904 before returning to the Majestic with an updated "Edition De Luxe". This version played through May and then moved on to the New York Theater for three weeks before returning to Chicago for a five-week run to finish the season. The two companies toured the country from August 1904 to April 1905, and again from September 1905 to May 1906.
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