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.

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.

One suspects that the producers fretted about “The Wiz” needing to live up to the grandeur of ... Kyla Jade in the dual role of Aunt Em and Evillene (“The Wiz” version of the Wicked ...

Almost every Black person of a certain age remembers being terrified by something in The Wiz. For me ... it was the wicked sweatshop mistress Evillene — don’t bring her no bad news ...

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 ...

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 ...