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The Wizard of Oz is a musical with a book by John Kane music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It has additional background music by Herbert Stothart. It is based on the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and the 1939 film version written by Noel Langley Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf.Successful musicals based on the Baum novel were created in 1902 (for Broadway) and 1945 (for St.