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Along with other musicals including Purlie (1971) and Raisin (1974), The Wiz was a breakthrough for Broadway, a large-scale big-budget musical featuring an all-Black cast. It laid the foundation for later African-American hits such as Bubbling Brown Sugar, Dreamgirls and Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies.
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 ]
Ease on Down the Road. " Ease on Down the Road " is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, an R&B re-interpretation of L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Charlie Smalls–composed tune is the show's version of both "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" and "We're Off to See the Wizard" from the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.
Home (. The Wiz. song) " Home " is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical, The Wiz. It was written by Charlie Smalls and was performed by Stephanie Mills in the stage production and by Diana Ross in the 1978 film adaptation and released on the soundtrack album in 1978.
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).
De Shields has appeared in the original broadway casts of multiple musicals, including The Full Monty, Warp! and The Wiz, most recently and notably originating the role of Hermes on Broadway in the musical Hadestown, winning the 2019 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater ...
Stephanie Dorthea Mills[8][9] (born March 22, 1957) [1][10] is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to stardom as "Dorothy" in the original seven-time Tony Award winning Broadway run of the musical The Wiz from 1974 to 1979. The song "Home" from the show later became a Number 1 U.S. R&B hit and her signature song.
The post ‘The Wiz’ is back on Broadway! Come for the nostalgia, fall for the new appeared first on TheGrio. Director Schele Williams talks about breathing new, “unapologetically Black ...