One afternoon the Tiny Desk traveled to Emerald City. Or rather, we got to meet the cast of the newest Broadway revival of The Wiz. Debuting in Baltimore, Md. in 1974, the musical unapologetically ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. For the concert, the cast sang “The Feeling We Once Had,” “Meet The Wizard, ...
The world has been fascinated by Dorothy and the gang ever since L. Frank Baum published the first book in a series, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” in 1900. The books led to the beloved 1939 movie ...
Picture this: It’s the late 1970s, and you and your friends are in your basement, wearing out the linoleum, as you continue practicing the “Ease on Down the Road” choreography from the film “The Wiz.” ...
Nichelle Lewis, who plays Dorothy, photographed by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com. Everybody rejoice! After a whirlwind national tour, the revival of The Wiz, the all-Black retelling of L. Frank ...
Altha Robinson remembers the first time she thought her granddaughter Peighton Robinson should do something with music: She was trying to get Peighton, who was very young at the time, to go to sleep.
"The Wiz," the hipped-up update of "The Wizard of Oz" originally written for an all-black cast, never was your father's "Wizard of Oz." And the version that Trollwood is bringing to the stage at its ...