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Stephanie Mills (pictured in 2017) played Dorothy in the original 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz.. The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls (and others) and book by William F. Brown.
The Wiz was theatrically released the following year on October 24, 1978, to critical and commercial failure. [4] [5] [6] The film received generally negative reviews from critics, with many unfavorably comparing the film to its source material. Some critics criticized the casting of Ross as Dorothy, while others criticized the direction of ...
William Ferdinand Brown (April 16, 1928 – June 23, 2019 [1]) was an American playwright, best known for writing the book of the musical, The Wiz (1974), which is an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, for which Brown received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.
In 1975, a catchy song and a grabby commercial helped propel 'The Wiz' to Broadway success. Now it's returning in triumph Fifty years later, 'The Wiz' is returning to Broadway for a victory lap
Miles Marshall Lewis (@MMLunlimited) is an author and Harlem-based cultural critic whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Rolling Stone and many other outlets.
“The Wiz” has been revived many times since it opened on Broadway in 1974 and became a 1978 movie starring Diana Ross as Dorothy, Michael Jackson as Scarecrow, Nipsey Russell as the Tin Man ...
The Wiz is the original motion picture soundtrack album for the 1978 film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Wiz.Although the film was produced for Universal Pictures by Motown Records' film division, the soundtrack album was issued on MCA Records as a two-LP collection (Universal was owned by MCA Inc. at the time).
The show is adapted from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum, with a book by William F. Brown, and music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls. ... “The Wiz” opened on Broadway in 1975 ...