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The Woggle-Bug is a musical based on 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.