The Wiz Live!

Dec 3, 2015

1h 51m

★ 7.0

Ease on down the road to Oz!

Overview

Winner of 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, The Wiz was a massive Broadway hit which spawned a dismal feature film starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. Executive Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have assembled a Tony-winning creative team, the imaginative Cirque du Soleil Theatrical and a diverse cast of showstoppers designed to create an eye-popping new take on the musical unlike anything ever seen.

Genres

TV Movie

Music

Production Companies

NBC

The Wiz Live! Trailers

Cast

Evillene

Mary J. Blige

Glinda the Good

Uzo Aduba

The Wiz

Queen Latifah

Addaperle

Amber Riley

The Cowardly Lion

David Alan Grier

Tin-Man

Ne-Yo

The Bouncer

Common

Dorthy Gale

Shanice Williams

Auntie Em

Stephanie Mills

Scarecrow

Elijah Kelley

Dorothy's Mother

Capathia Jenkins

Lord High Underling

Donald Webber Jr.

Based on and built around the west coast radio program, "The Hollywood Barn Dance", although no members of the 1947 cast of the program are in the film, but the better-known (on a national scale) Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadors, Jack Guthrie and Jimmy and Leon Short more than make up for that. The slight plot, around 18 songs, begins with Tubb and his band searching for $2000 needed to rebuild their town chuch after it burned down while they were rehearsing in it. Hollywood, here they come!

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6.5

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0.0

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0.0

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