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The complete musical score for The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, intended to accompany the performance script. Included are all 26 core numbers by Gottschalk/Baum and Schertzinger/Morosco, plus 2 optional numbers by Cowles/Wulschner and Waters/West. Arranged for piano. Intended for 8 principal singing roles, plus chorus.

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"L. Frank Baum, writer of the book and lyrics for The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, was the author of the American children's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and thirteen sequels. Baum published many other books and short stories during his prolific career. He was born in Chittenango, New York, in 1856, where his writing and publishing career got off to a start with a self-published home newspaper printed on his own press. Baum's aspirations led him to the theater. His first commercially successful production of note was The Maid of Arran in 1882, which Baum directed and starred in. Baum's greatest theatre work was his script for The Wizard of Oz, which opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theater in January 1903. This smash show was produced by Fred Hamlin, directed by Julian Mitchell, and made stars of Fred Stone as the Scarecrow and David Montgomery as the Tin Woodman. Hoping to repeat the great success of The Wizard of Oz, Baum brought his script for The Tik-Tok Man of Oz to producer Oliver Morosco. The Tik-Tok Man of Oz opened at the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on March 31, 1913, and toured the USA and Canada through 1914. Baum then embraced the new industry of motion pictures and, through his Oz Film Manufacturing Company of Hollywood, California, produced four feature films and several shorts based on his stories. Baum died at his home, Ozcot, in Hollywood in 1919. Louis F. Gottschalk, composer of the music for The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, was born in 1864 in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of a celebrated judge (and is no relation to composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk). As a conductor of many Broadway shows, Gottschalk rose to prominence when he conducted the US premiere of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow. He served as Victor Herbert's musical director on The Ameer, Dream City, and The Magic Knight, among others. His long association with L. Frank Baum began when he composed the music for The Tik-Tok Man of Oz. Gottchalk and Baum were both members of the Uplifters, a social organization within the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and they, with other Uplifters, founded the Oz Film Manufacturing Company in 1914. Gottschalk wrote scores for the company's films. When the film company folded, Gottschalk went on to write scores for many early ""silent"" films, including D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms and Orphans of the Storm, Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, and Little Lord Fauntleroy starring Mary Pickford, among many others. He died at his Los Angeles home in 1934."

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