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“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 ...
Director Schele Williams talks about breathing new, “unapologetically Black” life into Broadway classic “The Wiz.” I promise: You will not […] The post ‘The Wiz’ is back on Broadway!
Gayle King shares her pop culture lineup for April: Including the film "Challengers," new music from Taylor Swift, and a BTS of the Broadway musical The Wiz. Watch a Sneak Peek of “The Wiz”'s ...
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. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum 's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) in the context of contemporary African-American culture .
The premiere episode featured celebrity guests Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Paul Anka, Siegfried and Roy, Yogi Berra, the cast of the Broadway musical of The Wiz opened up the show as they danced out of the Majestic Theatre onto a yellow brick road as they sang their pop hit "Ease on Down the Road" straight to the Ed Sullivan Theater as they met and escorted Howard Cosell on stage, tennis ...
The Wiz Live! was an American television special that aired live on NBC on December 3, 2015. [1] Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron , it was a performance of a new adaptation of the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz , a soul / R&B reinterpretation of L. Frank Baum 's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . [ 2 ]
This week, the 10 remaining queens took on a brand new Rusical with merged Wicked, The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz with A Chorus Line. There were very few week links in what one of the strongest ...
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.