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The Wiz

Marquis Theatre

Previews March 29, 2024

Opening April 17, 2024

Closing August 18, 2024

Official Site · IBDB

Box Office

$29,699,923 total gross 21 weeks best week $1,945,288 (Aug 18, 2024)

Weekly gross — full run

Mar 31, 2024Aug 18, 2024

Grosses provided by The Broadway League. For additional The Wiz grosses, see broadwaywrap.com.

Articles about The Wiz

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Tickets to New <I>Wiz</I> in CA Go On Sale June 18; <I>Zorro</I> and Sorkin's <I> Invention</I> Too

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Jones, LaChanze, Arnold, Lewis, Henry and More Will Join Ashanti in <em>The Wiz</em>

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

LaChanze, Orlando Jones Join Complete Cast of <em>The Wiz</em>

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Arts, Briefly: Casting Completed for 'The Wiz'<br> Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Ashanti eases on down the road in 'The Wiz' By ERIN CARLSON

For someone about to make her stage debut, Ashanti appears eerily relaxed.

SOURCE: Google at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Wiz - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

This innovative revival of "The Wiz," the 1975 soul and rock adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic fairy tale, drenches the audience with a downpour of pizzazz and talent.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

<em>The Wiz</em> Ends Limited City Center Engagement July 5

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Ashanti's Dorothy, Nigel's Toto Ease Into New 'Wiz': John Simon

The show gets, and deserves, a slightly longer run than the usual Encores! airing (and Broadway may follow), as this is truly a show for all ages and all imaginable audiences.

SOURCE: Bloomberg at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Wiz<br> Review by Matthew Murray

Yellow is the perfect color for summer, and there's hardly a place to get a richer dose of it than City Center, which is currently housing a nearly perfect choice for its Encores! Summer Stars series, The Wiz.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Review of The Wiz by Matt Windman (2 out of 4 Stars)

SOURCE: weblogs.amny.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

REVIEW: 'The Wiz' with Ashanti BY LINDA WINER

The impact of the slick, ambitious evening depends on one's affection for the musical, a middle-of-the-road, rock-and-soul extravaganza that already seemed old-fashioned, uneven and a little…

SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Review: Revival of "The Wiz" BY ROBERT FELDBERG

The revival suggests that it was a musical for its original time. Despite a strong, very appealing Motown-sound score by Charlie Smalls, it comes across as a meandering, one-joke show.

SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Wiz<br> Review By DAVID ROONEY

Lacking the joy, exuberance and emotional connection needed to overcome its pedestrian book, the show is a limp spectacle -- a fantasy bereft of magic.

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Bland "Wiz" unlikely to ease on down to Broadway By Frank Scheck (Hollywood Reporter)

SOURCE: Reuters at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

LAST CHANCE: <em>The Wiz</em> and <em>Coraline</em>

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Hairspray's Rashad Naylor Steps In for Busy Brady for The Wiz

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Rashad Naylor Replaces Busy Wayne Brady as Scarecrow in New <I>The Wiz</I>

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Wayne Brady and David Alan Grier to Star in La Jolla <I>Wiz</I>

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Wolpe Reprises Wiz in <i>Wicked</i> on Broadway July 10

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Brady and Grier Among the Cast of The Wiz at La Jolla

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Easing on down to 'Wiz'

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Des McAnuff Tapped for Wiz Revival Via Dodgers

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Pop Star Ashanti to Headline Summer Encores! Production of <em>The Wiz</em>

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Another Emerald City: Creative Team Ready to Bring New Oz in <I>The Wiz</I>

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Ashanti Will "Ease On Down the Road" in <em>The Wiz</em> for Encores! Summer Stars

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

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