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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 ]
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 .
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!
Elijah Kelley (born August 1, 1986) is an American actor, singer, and dancer. He appeared in films such as 28 Days (2000), Take the Lead (2006), Hairspray (2007), Red Tails (2012), Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013), NBC's live-musical event The Wiz Live!
Actor, producer and director Schele Williams was a young girl when she saw a touring production of “The Wiz.” It was 1978 and she was living in Dayton, Ohio. “It was my introduction to ...
Bryan Loren Hudson (born May 5, 1966), also nicknamed The Wiz, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer.He produced and wrote The Simpsons ' 1990 single "Do the Bartman", and released the 1984 singles "Lollipop Luv" and "Do You Really Love Me?", which peaked at numbers 23 and 64 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart—where the latter remained for 17 weeks.
On Aug. 13, the festival announced EDM group The Chainsmokers and rapper Wiz Khalifa among this year's lineup. The two-day event will take place on Friday, Oct. 25, and Saturday, Oct. 26.
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).