Baum hoped to duplicate the success of his earlier production of The Wizard of Oz. The book featured an army of girls that was portrayed onstage by a chorus line, and he teamed the Wogglebug and Jack Pumpkinhead as a new comic duo. The show was unsuccessful, however; it opened at the Garrick Theater in Chicago on 18 June 1905, and closed on 13 July of the same summer.