Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F Brown.
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15 Facts About The Wiz
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The Wiz replaced the original director, Gilbert Moses, with Geoffrey Holder in Detroit during out-of-town tryouts.
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The Wiz explains that she only scolds because she wants Dorothy to be the best she can be, and fears that she will not be prepared for the responsibilities life will soon put upon her.
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The Wiz gives her Evamean's silver shoes, and tells her not to take them off before she reaches home, for they hold a mysterious, but very powerful charm that will keep her safe.
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The Wiz is dragged from the field and returned to his friends by the Field Mice who police the area.
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The Wiz agrees on one condition: they must kill Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West.
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The Wiz takes delight in torturing the Lion before Dorothy, threatening to have him skinned unless she hands over the silver shoes.
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The Wiz's spell on the Winkies is lifted, and they show their thanks by restoring the Scarecrow and Tin Man to top condition, and reuniting the group.
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The Wiz reneges on his promise, and the Lion knocks over a screen in anger.
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The Wiz then had everyone in it wear green glasses, and in time, they came to believe it was green.
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The Wiz proposes that Dorothy can return to Kansas the way he came, and offers to pilot her in his hot air balloon.
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The Wiz tells Dorothy that the silver shoes have always had the power to take her home, but like her friends, she needed to believe in their magic and in herself before it was possible.
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The O Z, a hip-hop re-adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with an all-Black cast that was to use original music rather than adapt The Wiz, was then planned by FOX and director Chris Stokes in the early 2000s.
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The Wiz was hardly a great musical in 1975, but it had something to say, and it said it with verve and integrity.
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Original Cast Recording for The Wiz was released in 1975 on the Atlantic label, produced by Jerry Wexler.
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