JdeBPIncidentally, when it comes to which actor played the part(s): in the plays, there are all sorts of wild things.
When #AlanAyckbourn directed one of the plays in 1968, Nigel Forde played both the Guardian of the Gate and Uncle Henry. The Wizard was a different actor.
http://careers.alanayckbourn.net/page4/page88/
In the NPR+L.A. Children's Museum centennial audio dramatization, John Goodman played (only) the Guardian of the Gates. Harry Anderson was the Wizard. (And #MichelleTrachtenberg was Dorothy.)
It is difficult to include John Goodman and Munchkin-sized in the same sentence without some form of negative. (-:
https://newwwoz.blogspot.com/2012/03/wonderful-wizard-of-oz-centennial.html
One could perform Elizabeth Fuller Chapman's 1928 play with the Guardian of the Gates and the Wizard as the same person, although there is one point in act 3 where it is implied that they are on stage together.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102943486
#WizardOfOz #GuardianOfTheGates #LFrankBaum #NPR #NigelForde #JohnGoodman #ElizabethFullerChapman