Michael Patrick Hearn speculates that both names are in honor of Baum's wife, Maud Gage (MAud GAge). In the play, Ozma is a princess in the Rose Kingdom and is analogous to Ozga in the novel, who is Private Files's love interest, as is Ozga in the novel, there described as Ozma's cousin. Frank Baum based two of his Oz stories, the novel Tik-Tok of Oz and the short story Tiktok and the Nome King, on this play. Newspaper accounts indicate that Baum began work on the play in late 1906 or early 1907, but it would take until March 1913 to be produced on stage. Baum used his characters of the Shaggy Man and Polychrome in both the play and his 1909 Oz book The Road to Oz, which he was working on at the same time. The play incorporated material that Baum also used in his 1908 Oz book Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.
Frank Baum's 1907 Oz book Ozma of Oz, which in turn had incorporated material from Baum's unpublished manuscript King Rinkitink. The musical play The Tik-Tok Man of Oz was based on L. The show languished before 1912, when Oliver Morosco agreed to produce it. It also adapted the Rose Kingdom from the Kingdom of Mangaboos in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, and Queen Ann was derived from General Jinjur in spite of the failure of The Woggle-Bug. Betsy Bobbin was intended to be Dorothy Gale, but the characters in The Wizard of Oz and The Woggle-Bug were contractually unavailable to him-although "Ozma" remained from The Woggle-Bug, she was a wholly different character renamed Ozga for the books. It incorporated elements of The Road to Oz, which was published that July, mainly in the inclusion of two of its new characters, the Shaggy Man and Polychrome, the Rainbow's daughter (which created some continuity inconsistencies when it was adapted to the novel), both of which were influenced by Prince Silverwings. The play began as a collaboration between Baum and composer Manuel Klein, an employee of the Shuberts, which they worked on during February–April 1909, first under the title, The Rainbow's Daughter, or the Magnet of Love, but eventually retitled Ozma of Oz, or The Magnet of Love. The Shubert Organization expressed interest in an extravaganza based on Ozma of Oz in 1909. The play is known from its advertising and published music, but survives only in earlier manuscript.
It was promoted as "A Companion Play to The Wizard of Oz" and directed by Frank M. It is loosely inspired by Baum's book Ozma of Oz (1907), incorporates much of the material from Baum's book The Road to Oz (1909), and was the basis for his 1914 novel, Tik-Tok of Oz. Gottschalk that opened at the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles, California on March 31, 1913. The Tik-Tok Man of Oz is a musical play with book and lyrics by L.
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