By Mariana Howard, NY Theatre Guide For the past two years, NBC has attempted to create a holiday television event by airing a star-studded live musical in prime time. 2013's The Sound of…
UPDATE, 9:30 AM: Adds full cast of The Wiz Live! parody, below.
The cold opening — Taran Killam and Cecily Strong as Donald and Melania Trump at Christmas — sucked, and even the …
The entire show has, historically, been done by black performers, because the show being about black characters and about blackness is, well, the whole point.
The cast of Hamilton hit the recording studio to perform a unique rendition of "Joy to the World" for 2015's edition of "Carols For a Cure"; The Wiz Live! of…
NBC scored a bonafide hit with its star-studded Dec. 3 broadcast of the Tony Award-winning musical The Wiz. Check out reviews, videos, our exclusive star interviews, Oz history and m…
NBC aired its colorful holiday production of THE WIZ LIVE last night, featuring newcomer Shanice Williams as Dorothy alongside Grammy and Golden Globe-winner Queen Latifah as the Wizard, nin…
Viewers eased on down to NBC Thursday, turning The Wiz Live! into a ratings hit. Thursday's live (to the East Coast, anyway) musical event brought in 11.5 million viewers and a 3.4 rating am…
On The Wiz Live! Suzanne finally became her own dandelion. During a pivotal moment on Orange Is the New Black, Uzo Aduba's character Suzanne Warren goes silent at her high-school graduation.…
From left: Elijah Kelley as Scarecrow, Ne-Yo as Tin-Man, David Alan Grier as Lion, Shanice Williams as Dorothy in The Wiz Live!
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Those who sat down to watch…
The show, the third live musical the network has done lately, moved away from the ornately staged superproductions of the past, with a kind of minimalism, relatively speaking.
NBC's broadcast of "The Wiz Live!" eased on down the road to an audience of 11.5 million viewers on Thursday night, topping the ratings for last year's live production of "Peter Pan" but fal…
Only in a weak Broadway field could The Wiz have won seven Tony awards, as it did in 1975. Its competition included Mack & Mabel, Shenandoah, and The Lieutenant (which ran for two weeks)…
NBC's live version of The Wiz managed to do what The Sound of Music and Peter Pan certainly did not: It was fantastic. Where the others felt unintentionally campy and ridiculous, or downrigh…
After last year's curiosity, NBC rebounded with a live event that was hard to find fault with " we were too busy feeling every damn moment of the The Wiz. Shanice Williams's debut! Mary J.'s…
