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 ...

A live production of the 1975 Broadway musical, "The Wiz," which put a modern spin on the classic "Wizard of Oz" tale with a cast of African-American actors.

The soulful 1970s interpretation of “The Wizard of Oz,” playing at The Bushnell in Hartford through Sunday, is overdressed, overstuffed and overdone when all it needs is to concentrate on the special ...

Betts as Aunt Em and the villainous Evillene, Kyle Ramar Freeman as the ... In 2015, NBC's The Wiz Live! starring Queen Latifah, Ne-Yo and Amber Riley pulled in a whopping 11.5 million viewers.

In their quest to find the wizard, they also face Evillene, the equally evil sister of Evermean, the wicked witch whom Dorothy inadvertently killed when she arrived in Oz; Evillene might be their ...