WIZARD OF OZ

1903 Musical

DOROTHY GALE

Orphan, lives with Aunt and Uncle

Exact age is never given

1st illustrated as a chubby 6 year old, fashion fwd age 11 in musical

Honest, loving, humble

GLINDA

Hundreds of years old, old looking

Long red hair with curls and streaks of gold

Good Witch of the South

Unbelievably beautiful and fair

Kind and helpful

Elegant clothes

THE WIZARD

Grumpy magician

Oscar Diggs

Con Man

Ruled Oz for a long time, then became a citizen

SCARECROW

Cleverest of Champions

Rudely painted face on sack, belt to keep form, cotton hands, floppy fingers

Fears fire

Made of straw so cannot be harmed

TIN WOODMAN

Nick Chopper the Tin Woodman

Formerly a Munchkin

Never gets tired, needs no food or drink

Most tender and emotional of characters, cries after stepping on a bug

Once a real man, meat and bones removed, still alive, doesn’t miss old body

LION

Nearly as big as a horse

Born without courage, bluffed, became more of a bully

Later becomes King of Forest Animals