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.

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.

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 ...

Follow the adventures of Dorothy (Gianna Douglas) as she meets up with a Scarecrow (Kameron Cady), a Tinman (Mat Shuster), a Lion (Noah Tuah) in Oz where they must seek the help of “The Wiz” (Zachary ...

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 ...