Encores! artistic director Jack Viertel discusses the groundbreaking nature of The Wiz, which continues to July 5 at City Center.
A Q & A with the singer Ashanti, who plays Dorothy in the Encores! revival of "The Wiz."
If you know Geoffrey Holder from TV commercials, he's "the un-Cola man."
If you know him from the theater, he's the man who broke new ground in 1974 as director-choreographer of "The Wiz," the first Broadway musical that found an African-American audience.
The charming L. Frank Baum story feels wrong for the high-gloss hippified treatment, more buried than animated by the effects.