I couldn’t be more pleased to hear this news.
NBC announced today that their next live musical event would be The Wiz, (Yes Lawd. Love this musical remake of The Wizard of Oz). The Wiz won the Tony for best musical in 1975 and also received a cult film adaptation starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson in 1978.
The Wiz is adapted from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and centers on “Dorothy, who is swept up in a tornado and relocated to a fantasy world that is inhabited by munchkins, good and bad witches, and flying monkeys. She eventually takes a path down a yellow brick road to find a wizard who can help her go home and along the way meets a scarecrow, tin man and cowardly lion, who all learn to help one another.”
Casting details have yet to be announced.
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