The Woggle-Bug is a 1905 musical based on the 1904 novel 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.

As a result, the story had to be heavily overhauled to eliminate the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, as the novel had excluded Dorothy Gale and the Cowardly Lion, neither of whom were major draws in the stage show.

The Woggle-Bug is made the driving force of the story, although he had been introduced fairly late in the novel (Chapter 12 of 24), and did not make a major contribution to the plot.

The program printed in the Hungry Tiger Press sheet music collection comes from late in the run; "The Equine Paradox" is not mentioned, and the play is presented in two acts rather than three.

Tip exits Mombi's hut, dragging a wooden form of a man behind him, props him up on a central shock of corn, and begins carving a face upon it.

The Woggle-Bug tries to impress the professor with his knowledge, but delivers such malapropisms as "patties" for "patois," following each with a pun.

He tries to take the dress from her, and when Mombi reminds him that he promised to help her find Tip and the Pumpkinhead, he tells her that that was before he "knew the pangs of love."

She asks Mombi to join her Army of Revolt, which is encompassed "of gallant milkmaids and scullery ladies" who seek to wrest power from the men who run the City of Jewels.

The five peasant ladies beg to join her army, Prissy promising to defend her "till death, then I'll resign."

They exit to search for an entrance to the city less grand than the one they are before, and as they leave, the morning workers enter delivering their song, "Ting-a-Ling-a-Ling".

Unable to find another entrance, they decide to steal into the city by climbing over a wall, making use of a nearby sawhorse.

Tip says that when he was a princess, he had many lovers, one of whom almost won her, in spite of "mamma's watchfulness" and tells the story in "My Little Maid of Oz".

After comic banter and an unidentified song and dance, Mombi enters wearing the checked dress, and the Woggle-Bug begins to woo her.

The Woggle-Bug retreats from the charge along with the Regent, Tip, and Jack, and after the battle, the city burns, the four are taken prisoner, and the soldiers chant "The Paean of Victory".

"The Courtyard of the Royal Palace of Princess Ozma" Jinjur sits on the throne with her feet stretched out on a stool.

Bettina admits the Regent, now a slave, whom Jinjur fancies to marry, but he wants a retiring life in the country, and would not be interested in her unless she resumed being a milkmaid.

Mombi says that she will transform Tip into a marble statue to prevent him from further declamations that he is Ozma, have the pumpkinhead turned into a pie and served to the army with cheese, then orders in Aunt Dinah, the cook (a mammy caricature played by a man), and demands the Woggle-Bug to be cooked Newberg style on toast.

After the Woggle-Bug leaves, Knowitt asks Prissy to marry him, and they sing "The Doll and the Jumping-Jack" (a song about lovers forced to part by outside circumstances) and exit.

Dumped in a pasture by The Gump, the three, deciding that they are safe for the moment, reminisce about "The Things We Learned at School", then exit hurriedly when a storm begins.

After Tip reiterates the plot, Maetta has Athlos send fairies to bring Jinjur, Mombi, Prissy, and Knowitt to the palace.

The Regent says that he escaped from Jinjur aboard the sawhorse, who then tried to kick his brains out for suggesting he teach him about the Simple Life.

Maetta's attendants bring in the prisoners, with Jinjur dressed as a milkmaid and Prissy wearing the checked skirt and a coat covered in medals.

Jinjur protests that Tip can't be queen, so Maetta has him rest his head on her lap, singing "The Sandman Is Near" to him, and Ozma emerges during the second chorus.

Gleaners who join the Army as the "Awkward Squad": Harvest Sprites School Girls School Boys Ice Men Milk Men Messenger Boys Postmen Courtiers: Hobgoblins The Army of Revolt Household Brigade Lady-Bugs Dolls Jumping-Jacks Chrysanthemums Black Cats Witches

Hungry Tiger Press published the complete sheet music in 2002 with an introduction, notes, and appendix by David Maxine, along with four songs from Chapin and Guy F. Steely's The Storks, the 1902 show whose popularity led Witmark to publish so many songs from such an unsuccessful production.

He found the screen projection of the rain of cats and dogs to look like corpses and lambasted the moment of toy balloons shot through a cannon.

His ultimate conclusion: "The Woggle-Bug, taken all in all, represents an earnest effort to provide an extravaganza free from objectionable feature.

The music is an attractive virtue, and reawakens the hope that some day Composer Chapin will have a really good book to work with.

The cast consisted of Oz fans who regularly appeared at Oz conventions at the time with Marc Lewis as the Woggle Bug, Robin Olderman as Tip, David Moyer as Mombi, John Fricke then Rob Roy MacVeigh as Professor Knowitall, Chris Sterling then Wayne Brown as Jack Pumpkinhead, Nadine Herman as Jinjur, and Eric Shanower as the regent.

The second revival was in 2023, when Offsite Connecticut Theatre staged a one hour TYA version with a newly rewritten script by T. Craft, additional music by Robert J. Adams for underscoring, and "What Did the Woggle Bug Say?"