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Michael Jackson, a former Motown star and close friend of Ross, was cast as the Scarecrow. At the start of development, he and his brothers The Jacksons (with the exception of Jermaine Jackson ) had departed Motown for Epic Records in 1975, after the release of their tenth album Moving Violation (although Michael had not released a solo album ...
"You Can't Win" is an R&B, pop and soul song written by Charlie Smalls and performed by American recording artist Michael Jackson, who played Scarecrow in the 1978 musical film The Wiz, [1] [2] a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz using African-American musical genres and cultural tropes. [3]
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 re-imagining of “The Wizard of Oz,” featuring a Black cast, originated on Broadway in 1974 followed by the 1978 movie starry Diana Ross as Dorothy, Michael Jackson as Scarecrow, Nipsey ...
Hinton Battle originated the role of the Scarecrow in the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, and Michael Jackson played the Scarecrow in 1978 film adaptation. This version of the Scarecrow was a more tragic character before Dorothy rescues him; while hung on his pole, the crows he is unable to scare, who force him to humiliate himself and entertain ...
A new revival of "The Wiz," featuring Wayne Brady and the hits "Ease on Down the Road" and "Home," opens at the Hollywood Pantages before its Broadway run.
Battle made his Broadway debut in the original production of The Wiz in which he portrayed the scarecrow—a role that Michael Jackson stepped into for the 1978-released feature film of the same ...
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).