The Woggle-Bug (musical)

The Woggle-Bug
The Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza
Original 1905 sheet music
MusicFrederic Chapin
LyricsL. Frank Baum
Arthur Gillespie (uncredited)
BookL. Frank Baum
BasisThe Marvelous Land of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
Productions1905 Chicago

The Woggle-Bug is a 1905 musical based on the 1904 novel The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum, with book and lyrics by the author and music by Frederic Chapin that opened June 18, 1905 at the Garrick Theater in Chicago under the direction of Frank Smithson, a Shubert Organization employee. The musical was a major critical and commercial failure, running less than a month. Chapin, however, had proven quite saleable to the publisher, M. Witmark and Sons, and many of the songs were published. The music director was Frank Pallma. The surviving sheet music was published by Hungry Tiger Press in 2002.